Jacked

Not jacked up, jacked out. 

It is usually not a good sign when this comes out.  

When Joe was checking the cows yesterday evening, a second calf heifer didn't look right to him.  He got her up to the barn lot and she started eating, yet she had some discharge.  She didn't act like she was in labor.  He waited an hour and checked again, nothing.  So it was my turn.  We got her in the chute and I said that looked like trouble.   It ended up being a backwards calf with only the butt coming.  

Thankfully, my epidural worked and I was able to get the chains on and the feet pulled out.   This is where the jack came in handy.  Joe and I can't pull as hard as we use to.  And amazingly,  

The calf was alive. It was less than 30 minutes from the time we got her in the chute until we got the calf out.  And she was standing in another 30 minutes.  The cow took a little longer.  She went down in the chute.  We had to open the side and she rolled out and got stuck.  We had to put a halter on and ropes on her rear legs to drag her around until she could get in a position to stand.  She just didn't try.  Joe said it was one of the problems of having cows that were too tame.  When we turned her out this morning she went right to eating again.