Post by rainer on Oct 4, 2020 1:42:31 GMT -5
I know you all will probably think bad of me for this but here we go...
My first calf heifer Ruby has a spot under a group of oak trees that she loves to stand and lay down under, every morning when I go to school I can just barely see her standing there chewing her cud and nursing her calf.
I've not been messing with her much lately because of all the going back to school and doing assignments, plus she doesn't get grain or anything just grass and a coating of fly spray and a good brushing every few days, otherwise she's just out in the pasture grazing.
Well on Friday morning I was calling for her to come up and get her fly spray, and she wasn't coming I could hear her mooing, so I started walking towards her moos, and I could just see the back of her butt moving back and forth, and at that moment in time I realized what had happened, she had a leather collar on that she has had on forever and nothing like this has ever happened and it had gotten hung up in some little cedar trees that she was rubbing against, as soon as I saw it I dropped the brush and the fly spray and ran like heck to her, the collar had stretched so it wasn't so tight it was strangling her but it was pretty snug, I ripped it off her neck, and by this point I was almost in tears saying "oh i'm so sorry babygirl are you okay i'm so sorry." As soon as she was loose she started to eat grass, and I could see just how awful she looked, her rumen was empty and she looked bony, the ground was all torn up and bare. I checked her all over for injuries and she had none, she wasn't limping and she wasn't thirsty, but she was hungry as all get out so I got her all the grass hay she wanted and a bucket of water which she wasn't interested in, as of today she is acting like her normal self and she looks to have no lasting effects from her ordeal. I'm just hoping that she didn't lose her pregnancy, which i'm almost positive that she was bred. By my best guess she was probably hung up for at least a day and a half if not 2 days.
I feel disgusted with myself for not noticing anything was wrong, but all I know is no more collars unless being supervised or breakaway and all the little trees are about to get chopped down to the ground.
My first calf heifer Ruby has a spot under a group of oak trees that she loves to stand and lay down under, every morning when I go to school I can just barely see her standing there chewing her cud and nursing her calf.
I've not been messing with her much lately because of all the going back to school and doing assignments, plus she doesn't get grain or anything just grass and a coating of fly spray and a good brushing every few days, otherwise she's just out in the pasture grazing.
Well on Friday morning I was calling for her to come up and get her fly spray, and she wasn't coming I could hear her mooing, so I started walking towards her moos, and I could just see the back of her butt moving back and forth, and at that moment in time I realized what had happened, she had a leather collar on that she has had on forever and nothing like this has ever happened and it had gotten hung up in some little cedar trees that she was rubbing against, as soon as I saw it I dropped the brush and the fly spray and ran like heck to her, the collar had stretched so it wasn't so tight it was strangling her but it was pretty snug, I ripped it off her neck, and by this point I was almost in tears saying "oh i'm so sorry babygirl are you okay i'm so sorry." As soon as she was loose she started to eat grass, and I could see just how awful she looked, her rumen was empty and she looked bony, the ground was all torn up and bare. I checked her all over for injuries and she had none, she wasn't limping and she wasn't thirsty, but she was hungry as all get out so I got her all the grass hay she wanted and a bucket of water which she wasn't interested in, as of today she is acting like her normal self and she looks to have no lasting effects from her ordeal. I'm just hoping that she didn't lose her pregnancy, which i'm almost positive that she was bred. By my best guess she was probably hung up for at least a day and a half if not 2 days.
I feel disgusted with myself for not noticing anything was wrong, but all I know is no more collars unless being supervised or breakaway and all the little trees are about to get chopped down to the ground.