Pulling a calf & draining an abscess... just a typical Wednesday.

well yeah good afternoon it's afternoon but bobby lee here with hurricane creek farms yeah we don't start filming many in the afternoon had no plans to film today but had a situation arise that we thought um yeah it would probably be worth filming gonna be a stinky one gonna be a nasty one but y'all give it a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already and let's get into this mess [Music] okay so you can say got a cow in the alley right there need to get her own in the chute that's as far as she wants to go right now you may recognize us account had the prolapse what i don't know two three four weeks ago i'd have to look back at my notes but we could tell something hadn't been right she's kind of still been coming to feed but you'll see back here calf is coming the correct way but calf is dead um now she could have been one that the neighbor's bull got to but otherwise if she's bred by our bull she shouldn't even be calvin for at least another two weeks and so yeah we knew when we put that prolapse back in as bad as it was [Music] it was likely she would lose the calf um thankfully she cooperated just enough for us to get her up here we can try to get that get it out of there um i saw her this morning she was she did not come up to feed she was laid off by herself she stopped to check on her and she tried to try to get me um pretty gentle cow but anytime she has a calf especially a new calf she the brahma definitely comes out in her and um y'all know if it's just combination of her feeling bad or feeling like she's in labor she was not having it she feels bad enough now though she has not fought me we got her up here thankfully with really not much trouble but we'll get her on there in the chute and uh get ready to dive into a stinky mess okay so she cooperated went on in there for us you probably get a little better look here we do have nose front feet um we'll see we'll see what kind of mess we're about to get into get some gloves on and uh yes if we can save this cow's life this is one of those moments where you really decide or you question yourself you know do you really want to be a farmer or a rancher driving a tractor you know messing with baby calves selling truckloads of stock or steer stuff like that's fun this on the other hand not fun the uh i'm thankful for you guys watching that you can't smell it you just have to take my word for it when i say that they smell it's not of this world there's a fair chance my wife will not let me sleep in the house tonight that calf is unfortunately been dead it would appear um the calf was not obviously dead we would use potentially a little different technique here but coming the right way hope is that we can just pull it right here with the my hand not have to get calf jack involved tell you what i'm gonna open this gate that's gonna mess up the camera come on kyle help me give me a push there you go you're pushing now and i imagine youtube's probably gonna flag this one is inappropriate for some audiences don't know why this is real life this is us trying to save a life but um we're gonna keep filming we're mate we made some progress if she'll keep pushing and helping us we should be able to get this thing out i don't want to jinx us but would not expect a great deal of difficulty probably really really stupid of me to declare that it's generally right before things start to go poorly all right enough messing we're gonna go get the calf jack um get this thing out of here um it's kind of a balancing act you know how aggressive do you want to be you don't want to mess around take too much time um yeah we need to get it out of there get her traded give her some semblance of a chance recovering from this okay so the calf jack which but yes [Music] sometimes situation does call for [Music] there we go there we go there we go [Applause] there we go there we go there we go come on there we go well good sound effect there hey big old bull calf oh my goodness um got a little graphic there so we're gonna make sure that it's the only one um yeah i always told somebody at school after you pull a calf regardless of the calf status check for tears and spares yeah really sucks to lose a calf now we want to do what we can be sure we don't lose her all right so we flushed her out cleaned her out as best we could again it's really nasty um calf actually held together better i thought i was afraid not knowing how long calf may have been dead sometimes they do literally fall apart on the vehicle and put some uterine boluses in there for antiseptic purposes we're gonna treasure with an antibiotic just a lot of that nasty nasty fluid in there um yeah you don't know i i don't know what i put her chances at maybe 50 at this point um unfortunately but they were zero if we didn't get that calf out of there thankfully we were able to do that getting tongue tied a little chilly you know it's i think the high today is like 35 36 it's maybe about that right now but short sleeves a little bit of wind blowing so get a dose of antibiotic in her get her turned out and see how this goes we'll see if she'll step out of there oh mama she's really weak um one thing about these these brahma or brahma cross cattle they are tough tough as nails which may have actually worked against her because you know you you wish she's like yourself we should have got her up a day or two ago but she really was not showing that many signs you know that that was really a significant problem until really just this morning um being tough may serve her well now though it certainly certainly won't hurt but she was getting weak there in a little while that was afraid she was gonna go down i don't want her to go down period um that's a bad situation um but especially not in the shoot where we really can't can't do much to try to even help her but we're just going to watch her close these next few days see how it goes we're going to get her some hay some feed i doubt she feels like eating right now but um get her set up where she can stay up here thankfully we've got good weather it's been cold but dry and so nice the sun's shining pretty but yeah not not the way we wanted things to go for her ultimately but we're hoping for at least somewhat of a happy ending so now everybody's favorite part of doing any job is clean up time oh well that's a bed there we go it's like water hose is a little frozen never fails you get a video something things don't quite work out ever like you think they should come on baby she's gonna thaw out well as we wait for the water pressure to build up yeah just clean up and put this stuff out there in the sun to dry there we go we're getting there [Music] none of those has to be sterile or anything but i don't want to leave all that there's fetal tissues and whatnot on there well i actually take those chains and hooks in the house and don't tell my wife but the uh put them in the laundry room mud room and uh you can spray them off real good in there spray this off real good so next for this video we're going to move on to something a little more pleasant a little less stinky our little uh black white face calf there you see well at least he gets out of the way out of our hereford cow that had uh that's kind of had the messed up it's only hereford that is calf so far because again none of them should have been calving yet but she obviously got bred by the neighbors bull jumped in i know if you can really appreciate the video a poor little calf i mean she's making it but her mom does not have any milk we have not supplemented with anything at this point other than that one dose of colostrum we gave her when she was first born but i was just noticing this one like a cat like she just looks looks like she's going to starve if she's left to you know feed only from her mom so let's see if she'll take a bottle no i'm sure she took the colostrum from us really well we're not going to take her away from her mom and bottle feed her but if she'll do this we can give her a bottle or even i just mix up half a bottle for the first first try we can supplement her a little each day and hopefully help her along but we now have two cows for today that that are probably on the coal list one her and then of course right up there top of the hill you they can see laying down there it's that 501 a cow looks pretty decent for us having just done that well time will tell over the next few days we'll see if we can get her to take this bottle i got more right here there's actually something in this bottle there's something in this nipple this video is going to get even more exciting and interesting [Music] yes underneath here so that'll be fun we can let her have this bottle first before we get to mess with that i know because because you ain't making nothing before we're having to do this yeah we're not taking her away we're just picking up where you're slacking off you probably appreciate it there a lot of swelling just on that lower jaw feel pretty certain it's an abscess so yeah the day's gonna stay a little stinky after all right there i know you don't understand but there she goes that abscess right there is another reason why you always carry a pocket knife with you okay i think i got the camera set up so let me get the gloves off i know baby good knife out yeah i feel pretty certain that's gonna be an abscess [Music] oh yeah hope you can see that pretty nice oh yeah so i had some disinfectant on me to flush that out oh yeah it smells kind of like what we pulled out of the and cleaned out the end of that other cam but uh yeah nice lab sessions y'all there you are but some remnants there on the blade but you know reason number 6279 why you always create a pocketknife not the most aseptic way of doing that but it would have eventually built up enough pressure probably ruptured and drained on its own but going ahead and doing that she should feel much better basically abscessed like that excuse me the uh you know the body's walling off that infection but yeah she should be in much better shape now but anyway um so yeah plan is we'll keep supplementing with a you know a half bottle to a bottle um you know a quart or two a milk um milk replacer every day just to help mom out because or help her out because mom isn't doing much good for her yeah you see these two calves i don't know how much you can appreciate size discrepancy but she's just a day or two older than that calf and that calf is probably and may have been a little bigger when was born too of course but you know that cat's gonna run off and leave her as far as size and then two you saw there were you know we kind of tried to graft her onto [Music] lucy when they spent the night or two there in the barn when the weather was rough lucy's just not very um amenable to that idea so i wish she was because she always has more than enough milk but probably gonna about wrap it up this video maybe a little shorter one again we had really no plans didn't think that we were gonna be doing anything that interesting today just putting out some hay for the cows and whatnot unfortunately we had the situation having to pull that dead calf decided we'd supplement her on the milk i'm glad we did one just because she needs calories but two finding that abscess but appreciate y'all watching um yeah calvin's gonna continue hopefully that'll be the only calf we pull this year um and yeah we'll be right here hope y'all remember eat beef and god bless and of course now she thinks i'm her mother so which again if she'll come running every time she sees me it'll make me doing this on a daily basis a little easier and we'll have one for you tomorrow maybe around noon or so i got to work so maybe really early in the morning around noon or sometime after six o'clock tomorrow night

Channel: Hurricane Creek Farms

Views: 706,687

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Length: 17min 53sec (1073 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 27 2022