Post by donnaclyde47 on Feb 6, 2022 14:40:35 GMT -5
My three year-old Jersey was due January 29. I was hoping she’d go early so I could go on a vacation to Florida that my husband planned to swim with manatees. However, here we are, February 6, and no baby. She was confirmed three months bred the first week of July. According to her red patch, she was due January 29, bred by our Brahman bull.
The only person that can watch our farm is my city-boy nephew, from Houston. He milked our goat last time and handled everything well, but I wouldn’t want to leave him responsible for Ruthie. Her first calf last year was stillborn, and she’s my “weakest” cow as the rest of the herd are sturdier crosses. She also went down after she calved last year - the calf was HUGE. Picked her up from a dairy, and she calved a few days later. So stressful for her all around.
Anyway, my husband thinks I’m “faking” her pregnancy. LOL. He’ll have to take six kids on a ten-hour drive, and do everything himself. I literally have never been home alone (unless I was sick and he took the kids to church) except for three hours in ‘September, I skipped church. It would be a DREAM VACATION for me to stay home without any kids. (But, knowing me, I’ll be whining on day three, missing them too much…)
Her bag looks slightly fuller, her vulva looks a little more puffy, but the biggest difference is her tail is curved up higher on her tail head. How “late” can cows give birth? I think I read two weeks? He thinks I should call the vet out, but of course I don’t want to spend fifty bucks for her to check. Wondering if she slipped the calf a while back.
It’s also so hard to tell if the vulva is puffy. It seems like every cow is different.
The only person that can watch our farm is my city-boy nephew, from Houston. He milked our goat last time and handled everything well, but I wouldn’t want to leave him responsible for Ruthie. Her first calf last year was stillborn, and she’s my “weakest” cow as the rest of the herd are sturdier crosses. She also went down after she calved last year - the calf was HUGE. Picked her up from a dairy, and she calved a few days later. So stressful for her all around.
Anyway, my husband thinks I’m “faking” her pregnancy. LOL. He’ll have to take six kids on a ten-hour drive, and do everything himself. I literally have never been home alone (unless I was sick and he took the kids to church) except for three hours in ‘September, I skipped church. It would be a DREAM VACATION for me to stay home without any kids. (But, knowing me, I’ll be whining on day three, missing them too much…)
Her bag looks slightly fuller, her vulva looks a little more puffy, but the biggest difference is her tail is curved up higher on her tail head. How “late” can cows give birth? I think I read two weeks? He thinks I should call the vet out, but of course I don’t want to spend fifty bucks for her to check. Wondering if she slipped the calf a while back.
It’s also so hard to tell if the vulva is puffy. It seems like every cow is different.