It started Sunday morning. There was the snow there was the snow, which was melting some and very slick. J was feeding the cows, had a bale on the spear and was headed down a steep hill.
When this cow got in between the front of the tractor and the hay bale and the tractor started to slide. J couldn't stop and ran over the cow. It looked like she may have broken a rear leg. But, thankfully, the next day she was walking better and today just a little limp.
But not so lucky with this cow. She calved yesterday morning, everything was fine. When J went to check in the evening she was dead. It looks like she choked eating the afterbirth. Freak accident. But the calf was fine.
So we loaded him in the 4-wheeler cart and hauled him to the barn.
He had already nursed some and I milked the cow for some more colostrum and we mixed that with some milk replacer. Looks like we have a bottle calf for the time being.
Very rough day (and scary).
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