just after killing a bullock

locky76

dropped a bale of silage into a round feeder at one end of the creep area and a 250kgs bullock had his head in and either got his neck broken or choked to death, absolutely gutted as it was a needless & stupid accident, rushed around and lifted the bale out with the tractor within three minutes but i'm afraid he was gone by then, ahh the joys of farming, as long as it stays outside the door i suppose at times like this...

moy83

Sorry to hear that locky , can happen easily enough though

massey265

Ah gee am sorry to hear that, ya cant help but feel really bad, but as you say it is outside the home door...

kerryjack

these things happen i cut a cows back legs off with a shear grab once, so simple bringing the cows in to be milked shear grab on front loader tipped cow in back she kicked up leg gone on a fairly busy road every one and they mother passed by in there cars that eve even a few tourists the worst day of my farming life 10 years on and i still get slagged about it.

bbam

locky76 wrote: »

dropped a bale of silage into a round feeder at one end of the creep area and a 250kgs bullock had his head in and either got his neck broken or choked to death, absolutely gutted as it was a needless & stupid accident, rushed around and lifted the bale out with the tractor within three minutes but i'm afraid he was gone by then, ahh the joys of farming, as long as it stays outside the door i suppose at times like this...

Sorry to hear that..

I did this a few years ago but got away with it...
Dropped in a bale, i would usually have fenced them back but was in a hurry.
Parked up tractor and went back to check on cattle..
Bull flat out without a move..
Ran and got tractor and pulled the bale back enough to free his head..

He came round in a few minutes but it was three or four days before he got up and i had to get pain killing injections for him...
I was lucky....

funny,, he was very afraid of the tractor after that !!

Juniorhurler

Old man sliced off a cows nose with the shear grab here. He had dropped in a grab of stuff and she threw up her head and left the nose hanging by a small strip of flesh. The vet stitched it and she is fine now but sounds like Darth Vadar ever since.

Livestock are always thinking of new ways to die on you.

20silkcut

Every time I drop a drop a bale in the ring feeder I fear this scenario so easily can happen. Sometimes I get into the ring feeder and fork the silage and often came close to stabbing one of the bullocks in the head as they root through as I am forking it.

td5man

Juniorhurler wrote: »

Old man sliced off a cows nose with the shear grab here. He had dropped in a grab of stuff and she threw up her head and left the nose hanging by a small strip of flesh. The vet stitched it and she is fine now but sounds like Darth Vadar ever since.

Livestock are always thinking of new ways to die on you.

Did that and broke a weanlings jaw.
Knackery was here one day with 3 big simmental suckler cows in the lorry, farmer had dropped a bale into a feeder killing the 3 :eek:

Muckit

Neighbour of ours lost a cow years ago back in the days of the trip loader.


Anyone see the farming indo yesterday? In the name of god how does John Heney fill that passageway?!? Their noses could nearly touch each side! I suppose having just a single feed rail helps!

bbam

td5man wrote: »

Did that and broke a weanlings jaw.
Knackery was here one day with 3 big simmental suckler cows in the lorry, farmer had dropped a bale into a feeder killing the 3 :eek:

Holy crap !!
That was a bad day

grazeaway

jayus that sucks, did the same a few years back, 1st year we had sialge bales. made the mistake of putting in two bales for the weekend. would do teh same with the straw and hay. eegitt here forgot about how much heveyier the silage bale is. second bale dropped, cought 4 cows couldnt lift it out so got the sledge from the tractor and managed to blow out the bars, mamaged to save 3 of the cows but couldnt get the last. expensive mistake. i try to lock teh cows out if i can before putting them in and try to tilt in the bale as much as i can.

always worry everthing i see a tractor passing by a feed barrier.

Bizzum

Shocking thing to happen. Some of them can be woeful anxious to get at the fresh bale, trying to get a mouthfull before their comrades!

hoseman

Had a weanling get caught on gate,lifted up weanling,had no mobile to ring some one for a hacksaw to cut the bar,ran to shed for one,minute at most,came back,weanling choked,then all of a sudden had two neighbours in the yard for chat,if only a minute earlier.

locky76

Bizzum wrote: »

Shocking thing to happen. Some of them can be woeful anxious to get at the fresh bale, trying to get a mouthfull before their comrades!

yeah the sickening thing is that i always put in the bale just after i give them meal but i was rushing last night and i had to drop down a tonne bag of sand for a plasterer before I dropped in the bale, oh the joys of retrospect...

galway 4 sam

locky76 wrote: »

dropped a bale of silage into a round feeder at one end of the creep area and a 250kgs bullock had his head in and either got his neck broken or choked to death, absolutely gutted as it was a needless & stupid accident, rushed around and lifted the bale out with the tractor within three minutes but i'm afraid he was gone by then, ahh the joys of farming, as long as it stays outside the door i suppose at times like this...

Was de budding a calf once in a crate. I left for a few mins came back and he had choked. The cow knocked the crate over and he choked. I was mad with myself after it.

valtraman

Around here you would not debud calves where the cow might have access to the crate you would be looking to get fitted for a wooden suit if they could even scrape you up to take measurements !!!!!