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So I'm feeding the calves this morning and find a 6 wgt heifer stuck in the bale feeder, dead.

Wifey happens to be out walking by on her morning walk when I lift the calf out with the loader.

I'm standing there leaning on the gate biting my tongue, staring at the motionless beasty.

So it's pretty quiet when she says "So God made a farmer . . ."

Classic. :?
 
tough luck Burnt, what's Gcreek's saying "you cant' kill em all" still sting's though. a point for the guy's that roll out their hay. you have to wonder if the feeder ever saved enough hay to cover the loss of a critter
 
Thats the reason I don't use bale feeder's. Then this winter I was feeding some very nice 2nd cutting and thought I'll dig out a bale feeder and keep them from wasteing so much of it. It took 2 days to kill one. I was so fricken mad I smashed the bale ring with the skidloader. Good thing I quit drinking Vodka or my temper might have got the best of me. Sorry about the $1000 you just lost but rest assured your not alone.
 
Oh it's not so much about the dead calf as it is about how she happened to be there right then and made that comment after the video got so much mileage. Kinda put the bite into it.

As far as bale feeders goes, it's the first time I've ever lost an animal in a feeder. I've seen or had them get stuck in gates, trees, fences or choke on apples - you just can't save (or kill :wink: ) them all!
 
Sorry burnt for you calf loss... That really stinks... But we have used bale feeders for years and have never had a lick of trouble. We have remade them to fit our needs. One we welded angle iron to keep the calves out. And some are only for bulls. But we lost two calves who must of had a death wish stick there heads though the pipes on a windmill. Did we smash the windmills? Are all windmills bad? No... We just revised the pipes by cutting one off....
 
Tough luck, it seems that they can find a way to die if they want to. :( I lost a calf last summer sticking its head through the panels to get a drink of water. There was twenty or more feet to drink at all ready.
 
man must be that time of year went out to feed this morning and found a pb shorthorn cow dead looks like she found a little depression to lay in and as she was heavy in calf couldnt get up so bloated and died go figure. :mad:
 
tamarack said:
man must be that time of year went out to feed this morning and found a pb shorthorn cow dead looks like she found a little depression to lay in and as she was heavy in calf couldnt get up so bloated and died go figure. :mad:
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At least your cow just passed away peacefully, and you didn't spend any precious sleeping hours helping her die. :wink: Night before last, my poor ol' wifey and I spent the better part of three hours in the wee small hours (12:30 a.m to 3 a.m.) trying to put in a prolapse. We got it in, and sewed up, but the cow died anyway. Her calf had died earlier in the game, when she spent too long on her back trying to have it. Oh well, it beats going deep sea fishing in Florida. Just kidding, Big Swede. :-)
 
We had a cow once that was standing sideways next to a thirty-foot in diameter, two-foot tall steel tank. Another cow or bull came along, pushing the one standing sideways, so she ended up upside down in two feet of water. By having two chances to die, one from having her back downhill, and the other from drowning, she was very dead when I found her. It took a trip back home to trade pickups, so that a Hydra-Bed could be used in fishing her out of the water without damaging the tank. The Hydra-Bed handled the situation very well, as the dead bloated water-logged cow weighed about the same and was about as round as a bale of hay.
 
So, Soap, did you drain the tank to get rid of any contaminants? Maybe she wasn't in there long enough to contaminate it? Curious how you viewed the situation besides grief over the lost cow.
 
High Plains said:
So, Soap, did you drain the tank to get rid of any contaminants? Maybe she wasn't in there long enough to contaminate it? Curious how you viewed the situation besides grief over the lost cow.
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The tank had a continuous flow of water from a windmill, so there was always water going in and water going out. There was a big overflow pond near the tank, as well as three other windmills with tanks for water in the pasture. Any cows too high falutin' in their quest for cleaner drinking water sure had other options if they so desired. That part of the problem took care of itself.
 

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