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NE Oregon | Had the weirdest thing happen recently. Gathered about 125 pairs and moved pastures (timber country) and sorted off a neighbors cow and calf. Calf looked perfectly healthy, kept it from going through a gate from a fenced off riparian zone, I walked it up a few hundred yards trying to get it together with another neighbors cow and deal with them later. The calf tried to lie down on me while walking through a swampy thicket, I got it up and it went maybe another 50 yards. Then laid down again, couldn't get it up. Tried for a few seconds to clamp down on it's nose to make it fight for air and stand up, after about 4 seconds i stopped because something didn't feel right. The calf proceeded to lay flat out, and die. Very unfortunate to have a nice black heifer like that die. Only one thing even comes to mind is that she may have eaten some western water hemp somewhere, but I didn't think it could kill them that fast.
Anybody ever experience anything like that? Had my dad and I a bit shocked. | |
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Calf Died
