Post by Jessika on Dec 8, 2007 17:12:13 GMT -5
Wow! I just got in from saving a cows life. It was almost completely dark, we had given the cows a new round bale of hay and I was finishing up feeding the last pigs. As I was walking off I always call to the cows, tell them goodnight, and head up to the house. In their paddock we have a small wooden hay feeder about right to fit one square bale of hay, it is 3 feet high and we toss the hay they pull off in it for the goat and the pony. It has solid wooden sides. Well something registred in my mind, that didn't look right. As I walked closer, my heart literally jumped in my throat, and I screamed,"She's Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Someone, as in another cow, had slammed Jules, our 16month old heifer upside down into that tiny wooden feeder. She was upside down her neck and head dangling motionless backwards out of the feeder and her feet were stiff straight up in the air. Eyes rolled back, didn't seem to be breathing. I grabbed her head and lifted it up screaming for Zoie, my 8 year old who was outside.
She blinked but didn't struggle. My husband was a 1/2 mile away on the tractor. I knew she was too heavy to lift out. I was going to try to just tip over the feeder, and spill her out, but with all the snow it was frozen in. We decided we needed to go try to flag down my husband but then I thought she would be dead by the time we got back, so I had Zoie bring me a hammer and I knocked off 2 of the boards. Rolled her over, she hesitated for a moment then got up and walked off, resumed eating hay!
I have had enough excitement for one day, it is amazing how animals can find the most inventive ways to try to kill themselves!
She is bred, hopefully her little calf will be alright from this, I'm just so glad I decided to check on her. She definitely would have been dead in the morning.
Jessika
Someone, as in another cow, had slammed Jules, our 16month old heifer upside down into that tiny wooden feeder. She was upside down her neck and head dangling motionless backwards out of the feeder and her feet were stiff straight up in the air. Eyes rolled back, didn't seem to be breathing. I grabbed her head and lifted it up screaming for Zoie, my 8 year old who was outside.
She blinked but didn't struggle. My husband was a 1/2 mile away on the tractor. I knew she was too heavy to lift out. I was going to try to just tip over the feeder, and spill her out, but with all the snow it was frozen in. We decided we needed to go try to flag down my husband but then I thought she would be dead by the time we got back, so I had Zoie bring me a hammer and I knocked off 2 of the boards. Rolled her over, she hesitated for a moment then got up and walked off, resumed eating hay!
I have had enough excitement for one day, it is amazing how animals can find the most inventive ways to try to kill themselves!
She is bred, hopefully her little calf will be alright from this, I'm just so glad I decided to check on her. She definitely would have been dead in the morning.
Jessika