Yesterday morning, Steve and I were headed out for our walk. We realized the cows were all in an uproar, mooing like crazy and whatever it was, was serious. We headed over to the pasture, and on the far west area of the pond was a cow in distress surrounded by all of the other cattle and vultures surrounding the main attraction; a cow with what appeared to be afterbirth on her backside. The new calf appeared to be laying by her side, but she was not tending to it. She would walk a couple steps and lay down. We changed into our muck boots and headed out.
Upon arrival at the cow, we found she had a prolapsed uterus, not afterbirth. We called our vet, who had recently opened a shop south of us in Wagoner. He couldn’t get to us for several hours. We called his sister vet north of us and thankfully Clint could come right out.
Jake babysat. He licked the calf and made sure the vultures were staying away from momma and her new baby.
The momma was miserable and the vet was 30 minutes away. She would walk a bit and drop. Steve came over with the tractor with cattle panels to contain her, but momma went in the pond. When Clint got here, he got a rope around her neck and Steve pulled her out with the tractor.
Clint put on a shoulder length glove and shoved her uterus back in, put gauze on ether side, stitched through the gauze and her, tied a knot and said, “That’ll do it! You can cut the stitch out in 2 weeks!” That all took a total of 10 minutes - including pulling her out of the pond!
But look at the size of her baby!!!
This will be a fun 2 weeks...
This morning, everyone seems to be fine; she is sore, but the BIG baby boy is nursing and hopping around the pond. Wendy is trying to settle him down and corral him near mom, but he is having none of it - he is running and hopping from here to there, runs to mom, gets a bit more fuel and runs some more!
Life on a farm; living and learning. :-)
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