Hereford76
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Just love this time of year so much action so much to do so much life. Start calving for April first and around 5% left on the white faced mamas.
Spent all morn on the big tractor prepping ground for oats and quit about 2 so I could get a load of oats cleaned for seed. Last night my kindergarten daughter and I went out around 7 to tag the calves born the day before. We found a fresh one and went to check it out. It had nursed and mama was laying down relaxed. About 15 yards away one of the reg angus girls was eating this cows afterbirth. Didn't think anything of it. Anyhow about 8:30 decided to road tractor to next field for the am and drove right by where this newborn calf was earlier. See that black cow latex over on her side and thought that don't look right- ran over there dead with afterbirth in her throat. So today after kids get home off the bus the oldest boy grabs the dead cow while I haul the oats to town to clean. Get home he and I go to find her calf and wife brings home some milk replacer. While my oldest boy and I Are bringing in the calf I see another cow prolapsed about like a volleyball so we bring her up too. Get the cow and the numb calf up to the yard and we get some stuff to try and fix up the piss poor prolapsed mama cow (yes she is a Hereford). Oldest boy on the heAd catch, wife with a stopper bar and me behind the cow bringing her up the alley into the tub. Oh yah younger boy and little girl bottle feeding the bumb calf. So I'm bringing the cow thru the tub and in with her in the tub snaking her up the little alley between the tub and chute- round that corner and right dead center thru the chute the cow is planted on all four staring at the two bottle feeding the calf in a little pen in front of the chute. The cow gets scared and puts it in reverse faster than I realize. She was a little spunky coming in so I figured I'd back peddle and jump over the swinging tub gate (with no backstopping mechanism - haven't fab'd that quite yet). Anyhow i get half way over the gate straddling it and can see her coming out the corner my eye and realize she's gonna hit the gate pretty hard which she does and I don't got a good leg hold straddling the tub gate so I did a nice ash over teakettle flip and laned in a position like I had just been souffléd for any wrestlers out there or been pinned in a double arm bar... Which I never had, rather pinned lots of kids that way with their head figure foured with my legs at the same time... Anyhow if not it was kinda a reverse scorpion position. My body hurts and I got nutted by the gate but what I can't quit thinking about is how fast my mind turned in the time she hit the gate and me the ground. I felt like I had a full blown dream in that split second. I found her with my eyes before I hit the ground cause after tagging angus cows out in the prairie with a mile in each direction to a fence I just have become a little more ancy around cows. But I had this vision that felt like a dream of that cow doing a number on me before I could get to my feet. Thankfully the adrenaline was flowing and I beat her out of the tub. Anyhow fixed her up, now just get to babysit her til she calves. Decided we'd call it a day and not push luck. On the way to the house my oldest boy says he kinda laughed cause he seen my boots up over the top of the tub while I was being flipped. That's it. Can't stop typing without saying that the rip we fixed up was 1 of 100 that I bought as yrlngs one year to breed and sell as breds. Markets played against me and I ended up terming them out with banker to own them. So glad the markets did what they did cause had they been good I would have sold them and done nothing but soured some buyer on Herefords. Long story short she wasn't one I raised.
Just love this time of year so much action so much to do so much life. Start calving for April first and around 5% left on the white faced mamas.
Spent all morn on the big tractor prepping ground for oats and quit about 2 so I could get a load of oats cleaned for seed. Last night my kindergarten daughter and I went out around 7 to tag the calves born the day before. We found a fresh one and went to check it out. It had nursed and mama was laying down relaxed. About 15 yards away one of the reg angus girls was eating this cows afterbirth. Didn't think anything of it. Anyhow about 8:30 decided to road tractor to next field for the am and drove right by where this newborn calf was earlier. See that black cow latex over on her side and thought that don't look right- ran over there dead with afterbirth in her throat. So today after kids get home off the bus the oldest boy grabs the dead cow while I haul the oats to town to clean. Get home he and I go to find her calf and wife brings home some milk replacer. While my oldest boy and I Are bringing in the calf I see another cow prolapsed about like a volleyball so we bring her up too. Get the cow and the numb calf up to the yard and we get some stuff to try and fix up the piss poor prolapsed mama cow (yes she is a Hereford). Oldest boy on the heAd catch, wife with a stopper bar and me behind the cow bringing her up the alley into the tub. Oh yah younger boy and little girl bottle feeding the bumb calf. So I'm bringing the cow thru the tub and in with her in the tub snaking her up the little alley between the tub and chute- round that corner and right dead center thru the chute the cow is planted on all four staring at the two bottle feeding the calf in a little pen in front of the chute. The cow gets scared and puts it in reverse faster than I realize. She was a little spunky coming in so I figured I'd back peddle and jump over the swinging tub gate (with no backstopping mechanism - haven't fab'd that quite yet). Anyhow i get half way over the gate straddling it and can see her coming out the corner my eye and realize she's gonna hit the gate pretty hard which she does and I don't got a good leg hold straddling the tub gate so I did a nice ash over teakettle flip and laned in a position like I had just been souffléd for any wrestlers out there or been pinned in a double arm bar... Which I never had, rather pinned lots of kids that way with their head figure foured with my legs at the same time... Anyhow if not it was kinda a reverse scorpion position. My body hurts and I got nutted by the gate but what I can't quit thinking about is how fast my mind turned in the time she hit the gate and me the ground. I felt like I had a full blown dream in that split second. I found her with my eyes before I hit the ground cause after tagging angus cows out in the prairie with a mile in each direction to a fence I just have become a little more ancy around cows. But I had this vision that felt like a dream of that cow doing a number on me before I could get to my feet. Thankfully the adrenaline was flowing and I beat her out of the tub. Anyhow fixed her up, now just get to babysit her til she calves. Decided we'd call it a day and not push luck. On the way to the house my oldest boy says he kinda laughed cause he seen my boots up over the top of the tub while I was being flipped. That's it. Can't stop typing without saying that the rip we fixed up was 1 of 100 that I bought as yrlngs one year to breed and sell as breds. Markets played against me and I ended up terming them out with banker to own them. So glad the markets did what they did cause had they been good I would have sold them and done nothing but soured some buyer on Herefords. Long story short she wasn't one I raised.
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