Had a horrible day here.
Pure Angus about 2 weeks ago calved and her calve died at 4 days old (suspected sat on at the time in big pen with 6 other Angus Heifers)!
Bought a big Blue X calve in for her to rear and spent a few days getting it to feed and going! Was doing fantastic inside and today decided to put it out with a group of 4 other Angus Heifers with calves....
We calve came steaming out trailer with his mother which riled up the others that were sitting peacefully! One of the other heifers had a wee go and nudge at the calve but nothing major and sat down again 5 mins after.
Past the field about 4 hours later to see young calve up top of field lying flat, got up there and was obvious it had been pummelled by one of the other heifers.
Took to vet and was deemed to have had brain damage so had to be put down....
Want to cry, shout and shoot the other heifer all in one go [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22]
Pure Angus about 2 weeks ago calved and her calve died at 4 days old (suspected sat on at the time in big pen with 6 other Angus Heifers)!
Bought a big Blue X calve in for her to rear and spent a few days getting it to feed and going! Was doing fantastic inside and today decided to put it out with a group of 4 other Angus Heifers with calves....
We calve came steaming out trailer with his mother which riled up the others that were sitting peacefully! One of the other heifers had a wee go and nudge at the calve but nothing major and sat down again 5 mins after.
Past the field about 4 hours later to see young calve up top of field lying flat, got up there and was obvious it had been pummelled by one of the other heifers.
Took to vet and was deemed to have had brain damage so had to be put down....
Want to cry, shout and shoot the other heifer all in one go [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22]
