Originally Posted by
XR500
We did a ceasar on one of our good Hereford girls (she had started prolapsing) Irish vet said on a busy day he'd do 6 of these a day. Thats how valuable their cows are back home. He had just started to sew when he said" oh, there's another one in here"!
But anyway: here's the $$ vet call out, ceasar, consumables, three courses of Anti biotics, visit to sew up her prolapse - $1600. Just managed to break even when we sold her two calves at the March sales. In Feb her prolapse fell out again and I had to shoot her. Zero sum game.
Only had to pull two calves this year. One alive and one dead. Monster of a bloody thing for a poor heifer, and the coloring told us it was a fence jumping bastard that did the damage.
I'll take easy calving, good hooves and medium sized udders over massive weight gain any day:)