A terrible Day

[bruce9001]

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]

 

[spin cycle]

sorry m8.....farming is best job in the world on good days and vice versa

 

[Dave6170]

Id want to shoot her too but it wouldnt do any good!
Few years ago i had a bull in beside some stots because i had no where to put him and he killed 1. Rammed it into a corner. Found it in the morning upside down in a knot. Threw the bull outside for rest of the winter. Feck him!

 

[Extreme Optimist]

Thats just crap! Sometimes you just feel everything is against you. There will be good days around the corner!!

 

[choochter]

Horrible sad thing.
You should resolve to get rid of all of these heifers as soon as they've weaned their calves.

(But if you did change you mind later on then that would be ok too.)

 

[Woolless]

And I thought I'd had a tough day!

 

[multi power]

Just the other day when tb testing i was thinking the Angus x stores were nuts, the Herefords in comparison were lovely and quiet , someone said some lim blood has got into the Angus breed

 

[bruce9001]

Have never had a cow or heifer do this before to a calve that was about 2 weeks old and she has been calved for about 3 weeks herself and pretty quiet all the other time!

On a positive note have had several good live calves since to focus on

 

[Hummin-Cummins]

Livestock can be sole destroying at times! Best advice i can give is:-
"Chin up, onwards and upwards!!"

H-C

 

[GenuineRisk]

Nasty - commiserations. Out of interest, was the Bluex calf very differently marked to all the others?

 

[Thick Farmer]

Best to keep an eye on her if you intend putting more cows and calves in that field.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Couple of years ago I had a cow so protective of its calve it actually killed the calf when it was a few hours old by pummelling it all the time.. bitch!! Last night I calved a nice bbx cow, 2 lovely twins.. she will have absolutely nothing to do with them , again , bitch!

 

[choochter]

Couple of years ago I had a cow so protective of its calve it actually killed the calf when it was a few hours old by pummelling it all the time.. bitch!! Last night I calved a nice bbx cow, 2 lovely twins.. she will have absolutely nothing to do with them , again , bitch!

she's not a bitch, don't call her a bitch, you have to ask yourself why she is dong that

 

[Lazy Eric]

I will ask myself that, I will also ask her while she is casually chewing silage in corner of pen with no care in the world about these two calves of hers to please take them and feed them.... or walk away for an hour or 2.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

she's not a bitch, don't call her a bitch, you have to ask yourself why she is dong that

She's probably doing it because she's a bitch

 

[choochter]

or she is, or has been , under stress

 

[Kelso690]

A cruel bitch

 

[Guiggs]

Send her down the road!

 

[Lazy Eric]

This cow has had zero stress,,, very casual laid back creature.. second calver.. l don't know what she was like last year , I only bought her in June last year with calf at foot [emoji30].

 

[ladycrofter]

What a bummer @bruce9001 as we all know sh*t happens that shouldn't and makes you wonder what the hell is it all about. If she is okay otherwise, I'd give her another go, heifers live in a parallel universe to ours. Just put it behind you and carry on, you can't win them all.

@Lazy Eric has your cow let down her milk? Sounds like she needs a little help to get the oxytocin flowing. (OTOH maybe she was sold with calf at foot because she did the same with the last calf?) Good luck.