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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Bad Luck Streak

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. 

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