Thursday, 25 October 2012

The arrival of calves

After reading a book on calving and watching a few YouTube videos I sort of feel semi prepared for my next experience in animal husbandry......calving!!!
I've never really imagined myself as a midwife for cows and there's so much to remember, like all books on medical subjects, the book I read informs you of all the things that can go wrong and ended worrying me silly! It said I needed one of these incase the cow gets stuck!!!


Ok now I'm nervous!!

Our first cow due started to segregate herself just as the book said so I knew we had to start keeping a close eye on her, and kept checking in on her "this is it, we're gonna have a baby" I said to Lucy!!! 
I went to check on her again early morning and had to do a second take..... Lying in the field next to her was what looked like a huge cow dung and as I stood there it stood up and moved closer to her. 
Amazing all that worrying and she'd had it all on her own. 
The next 2 mums had theirs the same way, even though I checked them in the night I kept missing the births and upon morning there stood another life - "this calving business is a synch" I thought, that is until they started to escape!!


To be continued!!!!!


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