Post by cindy04 on Apr 25, 2007 22:00:45 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Our heifer, Clover was due on April 29th. We noticed that for the past day that she was probably going to come a few days early.
Well, this afternoon, she gave birth to a beautiful bull calf, he took a few breaths and passed away. The birth itself was not hard and he was not stuck in the birth canal for long. His hooves were showing and then he was born about 25 minutes later.
We cleaned his mouth and nose out the best we could, held him upside down to help clear the lungs(lot and lots of mucus came out of his mouth), we rubbed him, did everything and he did not take another breath. His Mom was awesome - she licked and licked on him - it was sad to see. She was a first time Mom and
she would have been a great Mom.
We ended up going to a dairy 10 miles away tonight and buying a week old holstein bull calf to put on her. It went ok - as he did latch on and took some milk. We didn't let him have too much tonight - we then milked her quarters down some, but not all the way out. We now have some nice colostreum for the freezer. She did kick some which is expected for a first time Mommy! We are just hoping that she will continue to let the holstein nurse - so far, fingers crossed, so good.
She is a jersey heifer, 22 months old, bred to Manhatten. We are very sad that this beautiful bull calf did not survive. We haven't told my son yet what has happened - I'm sure he will wonder how our Jersey had a black and white calf!!
We just wanted to share the news - on an up note, she has great teats for milking! They are nice and long and the milk just flowed out nicely.
We have our 6 yr old cow that is due within the next 7 days so I hope things go a little better with her. I don't know if I can
take something else going wrong with another cow right now.
Give your cows hugs tonight.
Cindy
Our heifer, Clover was due on April 29th. We noticed that for the past day that she was probably going to come a few days early.
Well, this afternoon, she gave birth to a beautiful bull calf, he took a few breaths and passed away. The birth itself was not hard and he was not stuck in the birth canal for long. His hooves were showing and then he was born about 25 minutes later.
We cleaned his mouth and nose out the best we could, held him upside down to help clear the lungs(lot and lots of mucus came out of his mouth), we rubbed him, did everything and he did not take another breath. His Mom was awesome - she licked and licked on him - it was sad to see. She was a first time Mom and
she would have been a great Mom.
We ended up going to a dairy 10 miles away tonight and buying a week old holstein bull calf to put on her. It went ok - as he did latch on and took some milk. We didn't let him have too much tonight - we then milked her quarters down some, but not all the way out. We now have some nice colostreum for the freezer. She did kick some which is expected for a first time Mommy! We are just hoping that she will continue to let the holstein nurse - so far, fingers crossed, so good.
She is a jersey heifer, 22 months old, bred to Manhatten. We are very sad that this beautiful bull calf did not survive. We haven't told my son yet what has happened - I'm sure he will wonder how our Jersey had a black and white calf!!
We just wanted to share the news - on an up note, she has great teats for milking! They are nice and long and the milk just flowed out nicely.
We have our 6 yr old cow that is due within the next 7 days so I hope things go a little better with her. I don't know if I can
take something else going wrong with another cow right now.
Give your cows hugs tonight.
Cindy