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Right at noon, we had two heifers calving. One heifer had her calf, and the other was coming right so we went in to dinner. After we came back out, the second calf was born and doing good. The mother was deader than a doornail, and Peach Blossom pulled about four feet of afterbirth out of the heifer's throat. She had choked to death.
Cows after calving will eat the afterbirth, to "hide the evidence" from coyotes and other predators. Kids eating buggers do it for much the same reason, to hide the evidence. :? :???: :wink:
Anyway, we sure lost a nice mild-mannered nice-uddered good potential cow. She'd have been a good one. On the other side of the coin, an alert brand inspector at the Martin Livestock Auction last week found two red heifer calves wearing our Spearhead brand. They had strayed away from their home pasture back before we preconditioned the calves in September. I knew we were short, but figured they had probably died. Anyway, I am proud of the brand inspector for helping us find the strays.