worst injury to one of your own animals?

RD10

Had a bullock a few summers back that broke a leg out in the field. He and his comrades had been messing and fighting a lot together for a while before so i guessed that it got a bit too rough one day and thats how it happened.
Anyway vet was got out to him, and the leg was put in a splint and cast for a few weeks. First week or so was told to leave him in a small bedded area with very limited space to move around to avoid doing more damage.
After about a week or two vet came out again to check if the leg was healing and surprisingly enough it began to heal well. Vet changed dressing and bullock was let out to a small paddock on his own.
Long story short, all ended well and after a few months after gaining back weight and condition he was sold off to factory. All ended well for me.
Whats the worst injury one of your own animals ever had?
Did it end well or not so well for u?

Grueller

Shear grab. She put her head out the rail and threw it up in the air as I was tipping in silage. 28 stitches and three weeks later it was fine. She is due to calve again next week.

Miname

Cow that broke her leg, had her for years after. Had a calf that managed to rip off his front hoof. Got a prosthetic made but it only worked for a short while, he ended up wasting away. Had a cow that had a c-section that went wrong and had to scoop puss out in the middle of the summer every evening for weeks. No one sane would ever do it again but she survived long enough for the hook. Have a heifer that ripped the skin and flesh clean down to the bone when she tried to climb the side of a galvanised shed, I was told it wouldn't heal but she's grand now. I currently have a bull with a dislocated hip, he got it this time last year as a calf and I've him fattening now, he'll be hung up in January hopefully. It might seem like an isolation unit in hospital but this is over the last twenty years.

Base price

Such a depressing thread :mad:

Reggie.

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Such a depressing thread :mad:

Steady base

whelan2

Had a shear grab injury years ago. Had a weanling ran into a gatepost and died. Have a bull with a broken leg at the minute which is healing. Also went into get a calf from a shed he ran by me straight into the gate and died straight away.

Kovu

whelan2 wrote: »

Had a shear grab injury years ago. Had a weanling ran into a gatepost and died. Have a bull with a broken leg at the minute which is healing. Also went into get a calf from a shed he ran by me straight into the gate and died straight away.

What did weanling come up as

Can't remember anything too gruesome happening here but I've seen a lot of injuries at other places with work (Work exp with vet, mart & factory)
Hearing the crack of a cows neck breaking while being pulled out of a ditch was a noise that'll stay with me forever.
Couple of broken legs, some really bad abscesses. A cow knocked out by an iron bar. Weanling running into the ring at the mart, going to jump the bar and killing himself That happened a few times actually.
One cow pulled the end of her tail off in the shed, the whole pen of cows looked like a crime scene.
Strangest was Ronaldo my pet chicken, she ate half a black forest and was found dead the next day. Like that story with the man drowning in whiskey, she had an enjoyable ending.

davidk1394

One of our breeding rams got flattened by a loader a few years ago

whelan2

Kovu wrote: »

What did weanling come up as

Can't remember anything too gruesome happening here but I've seen a lot of injuries at other places with work (Work exp with vet, mart & factory)
Hearing the crack of a cows neck breaking while being pulled out of a ditch was a noise that'll stay with me forever.
Couple of broken legs, some really bad abscesses. A cow knocked out by an iron bar. Weanling running into the ring at the mart, going to jump the bar and killing himself That happened a few times actually.
One cow pulled the end of her tail off in the shed, the whole pen of cows looked like a crime scene.
Strangest was Ronaldo my pet chicken, she ate half a black forest and was found dead the next day. Like that story with the man drowning in whiskey, she had an enjoyable ending.

Weanling came up as w*nking

Kovu

whelan2 wrote: »

Weanling came up as w*nking

Ahahaaha brilliant! Definitely would have been confused at that one.

djmc

I had some injury's too putting in silage over the years once broke a cows jaw and fed it wet meal for a month and she came 100% right again
Still have her and you would never know.
A pity barriers are not designed to be closed off to stop them sticking their heads out when putting in silage.

Reggie.

djmc wrote: »

I had some injury's too putting in silage over the years once broke a cows jaw and fed it wet meal for a month and she came 100% right again
Still have her and you would never know.
A pity barriers are not designed to be closed off to stop them sticking their heads out when putting in silage.

The head locking barriers do that

MF290

Reggie. wrote: »

The head locking barriers do that

Have them here on the ends of the sheds. Wouldn't use them much, but handy to have them all the same. The other night however, was finished feeding and went back to have a look before I went. The safety catch was undone and 5 heifers had their heads caught, one of whom had fallen and was getting it hard to breathe at this stage. Could have ended a lot worse....

Timmaay

2 heifers over the last 2 years have had such bad ecoli mastitis just after calving that the udders have literally melted off them. They're both survived luckily, obviously only for the hook then. It's something I have to have to have get on top of this year, I think I'll be running a split herd 1st month of calving and leave heifers to grass full time from calving. Acid dip the clusters also.

I said

seen one of the hens get flattened when a top bale fell down on it when feeding one day

Reggie.

I said wrote: »

seen one of the hens get flattened when a top bale fell down on it when feeding one day

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Reggie. wrote: »

There's an image

It was fairly fowl alright

RD10

Was over helping a neighbour during the summer for a herd test. Loading weanling bulls into crush wen one Jumped up and landed down with a big snap..leg broken. Had to put him down there and then. can still hear the sound of that snap..not nice.
A cow 3 days after calving looked like she had mastitus. vet out, she treated her and left more tubes and stuff for her. few hours later she had got worse. Vet out again, said it was turned to e-coli mastitus. Sorted her out and was given more stuff for her. Few hours later she looked atrocious altogether. Vet out a third time, it had gone to gangrene mastitus. Did what we could for her again then stomach tubed her with sugar and water to try get something into her.she died that night. I remember her trying to get up and thrashing her head down on the ground each time. Her eyes all swollen and bruised from it and she looked so sick. Horrible to watch. And not a thing we could do to help her.

Reggie.

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It was fairly fowl alright

Get your coat

Kovu

Actually just remembered a couple more that was horrible to watch, a lm cow that got murrained after redwater, she looked like death in the field. All she would do was stand there with her head out from her and we had even been on to the dead lorry to shoot her if they were in the area. Was terrible to see her calf and herself getting thinner, she'd naturally dried off after almost two weeks of self starvation. Finally got some cud from the butcher and drenched them into her, two days later she was picking at fresh grass in the field and went on to make a full recovery- bar one large abcess that came up on her flank. Fecking Tylenol :mad:

Another was a calf that the vet decided to give a blood transfusion to, he literally walked out of the crush and collapsed choking and frothing at the mouth. I stayed with him til he died, trying to clear his lungs by rubbing his back and thumping it like you would to a winded person but no go.

Ah poo, this thread is making me sad

Tyson Lannister

I use the locking barriers every evening to feed ration to the Autumn calvers and keep the spring cleavers from getting to it.i'm always doubting myself that I have left them locked in

Sam Kade

Back in in 1999 we had thunder and lightning in May and I had about 20 yearling bullocks in a field, one of them was paralysed in the hind legs. I presumed it was when they were running from the lightening. I called the vet and he put the bullock down, I got him to write out a report on the bullock so I could claim off my insurance. He covered himself well saying that he got injured while running in lighting :mad: Luckily enough insurance paid out, FBD I never insured cattle before or since :eek:

jerdee

Had a pen with a few Bulls in head locking barrier . Feed them silage bales with bobcat and was about to close up shed doors when I heard this moaning . Fecking bull had put out his head as I was breaking out bale and had his head stuck under 1/2 bale grunting away didn't t cop it till all was quiet. Moved it fairly lively and all was ok thank god .

Sam Kade

jerdee wrote: »

Had a pen with a few Bulls in head locking barrier . Feed them silage bales with bobcat and was about to close up shed doors when I heard this moaning . Fecking bull had put out his head as I was breaking out bale and had his head stuck under 1/2 bale grunting away didn't t cop it till all was quiet. Moved it fairly lively and all was ok thank god .

Same happened me years ago with a ring feeder in the field, a bullock caught his head under a bale of silage. I never mounted the tractor so fast to get the bale out again, ended saving the bullock even though he was fairly shagged after it, he survived

fanmanad

Went into the shed one morning about 4 years ago to find the stock bull half over the feeding barrier dead. Had been in the shed a few hours earlier checking cows and he was grand. Had to get a loading shovel to lift him out. Wasn't a pretty sight. Only had one crop of calves from him

Sam Kade

fanmanad wrote: »

Went into the shed one morning about 4 years ago to find the stock bull half over the feeding barrier dead. Had been in the shed a few hours earlier checking cows and he was grand. Had to get a loading shovel to lift him out. Wasn't a pretty sight. Only had one crop of calves from him

Nothing more annoying :mad: I had a dairy cow one time bloated in neighbours drain :mad: I presumed it was blackleg.