Had a couple of memorable incidents today. Started off with a neighbours call for help. Her husband had a severe stroke a few years ago, she just had back surgery, and their son maintains a job in town to make ends meet. The call was one I dread.... prolapsed heifer down by the creek needs brought in and fixed :shock: My wife and I went over, managed to get the heifer in (whose riggin' was hanging well below her hocks), and danged if I didn't get the uterus stuffed back in in about 5 minutes and stitched up in about 2 minutes and kicked her out to tend to her calf :shock:
This evening Dad and I were walking back from the cows and he saw something odd in the maternity pen. I got to looking too, and we could see a cow licking a calf but the calf was kind of on its back and thrashing about. We had forgot we had put a calving cow in there earlier
After doing the 100 yard dash we saw that a new born calf had the dreaded "bag over it's head". Problem was that by the time we got the bag off the calf had quit thrashing, and quit breathing. For lack of anything better to do, I gave it about 20 chest compressions then about 3 breaths through one nostril while blocking it's mouth and the other nostril....... danged if it didn't start breathing again, slowly at first, then away it went! :shock:
All in all, days like today make a soul feel like sometimes things can work out in our favour
This evening Dad and I were walking back from the cows and he saw something odd in the maternity pen. I got to looking too, and we could see a cow licking a calf but the calf was kind of on its back and thrashing about. We had forgot we had put a calving cow in there earlier
After doing the 100 yard dash we saw that a new born calf had the dreaded "bag over it's head". Problem was that by the time we got the bag off the calf had quit thrashing, and quit breathing. For lack of anything better to do, I gave it about 20 chest compressions then about 3 breaths through one nostril while blocking it's mouth and the other nostril....... danged if it didn't start breathing again, slowly at first, then away it went! :shock: All in all, days like today make a soul feel like sometimes things can work out in our favour
