Lost my first calf today. The guy I run a bunch of cows for bought some corrientes and turned them loose in the pasture and told me not to worry about them. He didn't know when they were going to calve or if they would. they were so thin that if they didn't have big sets of horns I'm pretty sure they would have blown away. Anyway one calved and at twenty below the calf didn't have a chance. She didn't like me or my horse either and tried to hook us. It was pretty interesting there for awhile.
Then I had an old cow that had filled up with fluid. I called the vet to look at her and the prognosis wasn't good. He thinks the kidneys failed. She couldn't get up and the crows and magpies were giving her hell and eating her alive. She was giving them a hell of a fight but I had to put her down.
After that on my way out to get a cow that slipped on the ice and wrecked her shoulder, the paint horse that I'm riding got an introductin to water and ice. All the little creeks are almost froze over and I would get off and break the ice off the creek bank so he could cross. Well the first couple we had quite the disagreement of opinion but after the first two he crossed alot better even though he had me soaked also. By then it was about eight degrees with a thirty mile an hour breeze blowing but we got the cow in.
I know that cows are born to die and some take shorter trips than others but this kind of weather seems to hasten it along a little bit.
tomorrow the sun will come up and things will be better but I'm sure glad today is over.
Then I had an old cow that had filled up with fluid. I called the vet to look at her and the prognosis wasn't good. He thinks the kidneys failed. She couldn't get up and the crows and magpies were giving her hell and eating her alive. She was giving them a hell of a fight but I had to put her down.
After that on my way out to get a cow that slipped on the ice and wrecked her shoulder, the paint horse that I'm riding got an introductin to water and ice. All the little creeks are almost froze over and I would get off and break the ice off the creek bank so he could cross. Well the first couple we had quite the disagreement of opinion but after the first two he crossed alot better even though he had me soaked also. By then it was about eight degrees with a thirty mile an hour breeze blowing but we got the cow in.
I know that cows are born to die and some take shorter trips than others but this kind of weather seems to hasten it along a little bit.
tomorrow the sun will come up and things will be better but I'm sure glad today is over.