05/29/2026
While this doesn’t look good, it could’ve been way worse…
Ella Kate called me and said there was a cow having trouble giving birth, she had been in labor for at least 2 hours.
Normally when you see feet coming, the calf is born in about 20-30 minutes.
So I grabbed a rope and a small piece of chain to try and pull it in the pasture, fully expecting it to be dead.
I was able to get the head out and it didn’t look good, but then wait… I think I saw it blink. Then its head moved a little bit and we realized it was still alive.
I gave the cow a couple minutes to rest and then helped pull it the rest of the way out.
She is now up and we have another new heifer running around the pasture 🙌🏻