Originally Posted by LiiT

LOL You haven't lived until you have stuck your arm up a cows **** trying to get a prolapse back in long enough to get her to market. Not anymore brother. Too busted up to fool with 'em these days. I quit and I 'aint going back to it.

Originally Posted by liit

lol you haven't lived until you have stuck your arm up a cows **** trying to get a prolapse back in long enough to get her to market. Not anymore brother. Too busted up to fool with 'em these days. I quit and i 'aint going back to it.





Yep. That's one hard headed heifer i could never do much with.


i was always careful about the bulls i chose for my herd and concentrated on low birth weight and high gain genetics so i only had to pull one calf the last 10 years i was working with them.


It was a heifer that got bred a bit too early by a neighbors bull that made his way onto my farm looking for some strange. He found it.


I watched her pretty close and the day she started to deliver i was close by. She tried her best but the calf was big one and got hip locked and she finally just laid down on the creek bank worn out from the struggle.


I grabbed a puller, jumped out of the truck and went to help her. Finally had to twist him a bit and brother when he came he came in a rush. I was reared back pulling for all i was worth and he shot out. Me and him went tumbling backwards down over the creek bank through a big multi-flora rose bush and i wound up sitting in 4" of water with the calf in my lap and a back full of thorns.


i pulled the placenta off his face and he took his first real breath right there looking up at me.

Originally Posted by AllenW

Rode a horse once, well tried to, evidently there is a right and wrong way to ride, I don't know the right way, but I did find out the wrong way, no thank you, I'll keep my involvement with animals to a minimum please.

Al

Originally Posted by soft 02

Hmmm. Our goat herd on campus is about to cut loose with some new babies. Maybe ill keep stalking them.