Unusual birth

[Farmerdunk]

Going to confess, I very rarely go on the livestock section, apart from the hay straw tracker. Not a livestock guy so don’t know to much about it, but a large cattle farmer told me today something he had never heard or seen before.
He had a calf born inside out! I don’t know much more details, I’m guessing this is a very rare thing to happen?!

 

[Doc]

Schistomonas reflexus. Inside out calf. Rare but well recognised.

 

[Blaithin]

And feels weird as f**k when you’re reaching inside trying to figure out which bit needs attached to the chain.

 

[chaffcutter]

We had a funny on our last year in dairy, had a heifer in trouble calving, vet found the calf had no skeleton. It was just like an empty skin, and as she strained it expanded so couldn’t calve it. Had to cut it up inside her, it knocked her about a bit but came ok in the end.

 

[jellybean]

And feels weird as fudge when you’re reaching inside trying to figure out which bit needs attached to the chain.

I remember once on a calving course the instructor said never attach ropes or chains to 2 feet just because they are there, always follow back to the body in case you have feet from 2 different calves.
I wonder what he would have made of this one!

 

[shearerlad]

I’ve not had an inside out calf but had a lamb like that a few years ago, I did my bit for vet science and took it to the vets just for their interest.

 

[bendigeidfran]

I’ve not had an inside out calf but had a lamb like that a few years ago, I did my bit for vet science and took it to the vets just for their interest.

I had a lamb like that about thirty years ago, took the ewe to vet to have a cesar, he said they got one every couple of years.
Very wierd to see it still alive but inside out.

 

[yellowbelly]

I’ve not had an inside out calf but had a lamb like that a few years ago, I did my bit for vet science and took it to the vets just for their interest.

Yeah, we had one a few years ago - ewe couldn't get it away and I had to put my hand in. Very strange When all the guts started coming I half wondered if they were hers

Had one of these too........

...........couldn't get it out - had to have a C/S. It had one live sibling and one dead one.

 

[rancher]

I had a lamb with another head and legs inside the rib cage and four legs outside the lamb at the hips, imagine sorting that, took a ceasarean in the end

 

[shearerlad]

This was my one, it was in 2017. It’s in a 5l Helmans mayonnaise bucket for scale

 

[chaffcutter]

Yuk! Don’t we have some strange and gut-wrenching stuff to deal with in the livestock job !!

 

[yellowbelly]

Yuk! Don’t we have some strange and gut-wrenching stuff to deal with in the livestock job !!

It's a good job everybody will have had their tea by now

 

[Skintagain]

this is a grim thread

Had Siamese lambs three years ago

 

[Sharpy]

We had a calf last year, one of twins which had all the bones and skin etc but the bones weren't connected and it didn't feel like much else was either. Its twin was perfect.

 

[yellowbelly]

this is a grim thread

There are the odd 'lighter moments' ............

............This little guy had an 'extra ear' on the top of his head...............

....................just the job if you wanted an extra management tag as well as an eid and a manual tag

 

[Radio]

There are the odd 'lighter moments' ............

............This little guy had an 'extra ear' on the top of his head...............

....................just the job if you wanted an extra management tag as well as an eid and a manual tag

Name him Davy Crockett , left ear , right ear and a wild frontier.

 

[Newguy]

This was my one, it was in 2017. It’s in a 5l Helmans mayonnaise bucket for scale

On first read, I didn't notice the C in your last word . You'd have to be some salesman.

 

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There are the odd 'lighter moments' ............

............This little guy had an 'extra ear' on the top of his head...............

....................just the job if you wanted an extra management tag as well as an eid and a manual tag

You didn't sell that did you? Any fool can see it's a bloody infant unicorn and worth millions!!

 

[yellowbelly]

You didn't sell that did you? Any fool can see it's a bloody infant unicorn and worth millions!!

Tasted just like lamb

 

[mixed breed]

We had one three years ago, seem a routine "not getting on with the job" so put my hand in and seemed like I was grasping at a jumble, got vet out and he straight away said Schistomonas reflex. He performed a c section and thankfully we got it out. The calf was best described as a corn sack made of flesh with 2 legs sticking out the top. It wad the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

"linda" the dam had a week fighting infection but we nursed her through and she's still with us. Both calving's since have been natural an unassisted.