Heifer carrying a mummy calf

Irish Beef

As title says I have a heifer carrying a mummy calf, now she is gone past her due date and still holds onto the calf, she was originally Ai'd in Late August and due to calf in early June but obviously no sign of a calf so I presumed she didn't hold onto calf and then went in calf to stock bull later on so who knows when she would calf, Anyway vet was out testing and asked him to handle cow to see what’s going on, so he told me she’s carry a mummy and suggested I get rid of her, So there’s two questions I have, firstly could he not take out calf and flush her out with antibiotics and make sure she ok and then either sell her or keep her or would I just sell her in mart as a factory heifer not suitable for breeding, Would that be ok since she is carry mummy, The last time I had a mummy calf the cow just calved on her due date. What do people think?

patsy_mccabe

Did the Vet not advise you on your options.

Irish Beef

Ya he did, he suggested I out her as a factory heifer, that it wouldn't be worth the hassle of trying to remove calf, but he is a fairly young inexperienced vet. At one stage when he was handling the heifer he told me she's in calf and everything okay the he just checked her again and said no she's carrying a mummy. I suppose I need to have a chat with the head Vet in the practice and see what his take is on it, What I'm really asking is it ok to sell her in the mart as a factory heifer and announce that she is not suitable for breeding what I don't want is someone coming back after me saying she was knocked in factory or didn't thrive due to the dead calf inside her. Even If I could get her ok and ready to go back in calf she's too late for me now and two years wasted.

Who2

I don't know if it's allowed but in my eyes it would be the wrong thing to do. Get the vet out and get him to take the calf.

wiggy123

get that senior vet out to her! don't be selling her in the mart anyway.. just passing the problem to another
re factory-unsure if they penalize you for her...

kollegeknight

I had a mummy calf, stuck in falopian tubes about the size of a rat- vet said sell her at mart for factory. Declared her not suitable for breeding. Sold. Nobody came back.

greysides

Take a read:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603657/

Hard Knocks

Irish Beef wrote: »

As title says I have a heifer carrying a mummy calf, now she is gone past her due date and still holds onto the calf, she was originally Ai'd in Late August and due to calf in early June but obviously no sign of a calf so I presumed she didn't hold onto calf and then went in calf to stock bull later on so who knows when she would calf, Anyway vet was out testing and asked him to handle cow to see what’s going on, so he told me she’s carry a mummy and suggested I get rid of her, So there’s two questions I have, firstly could he not take out calf and flush her out with antibiotics and make sure she ok and then either sell her or keep her or would I just sell her in mart as a factory heifer not suitable for breeding, Would that be ok since she is carry mummy, The last time I had a mummy calf the cow just calved on her due date. What do people think?

Had this sadly, no sign of cow to spring down, vet handled and said incalf, started thinking did a weanling get her, a month after due date she 'calved', wouldn't of copped only she was acting very maternal.
Got foetus checked & cow blooded with no issues.
All I could think of neighbours bull broke in 3 weeks after being scanned incalf & maybe he gave her a dunt.
Cow is now burgers

farmer2018

Where do you stand here if you sell a female with a mummified calf in her at mart or factory?

50HX

I'd imagine no odds at the factory, you are paid by kill out weight

As soon as you announce that at mart you'll get docked

I'd factory her & be done with the hassle & future uncertainty if you remove calf, flush her out & try getting her incalf again

farmer2018

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472509#Comment_121472509

Would there be an issue if she sold as a cull, like could the factory come back to you about it?

50HX

There In calf cows being slaughtered at the factory wholesale

whelan2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472539#Comment_121472539

No

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472539#Comment_121472539

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121472500#Comment_121472500

There won’t be a word about it whether sold in cull ring in mart or factory.

farmer2018

I sold a heifer incalf two months ago (I got her scanned during summer and all was ok) and it turns out the calf is mummified in her on scanning this week as she was due a month ago. What should I do take her back and mart or factory her?

whelan2

We sold one similar years ago we took her back and swapped her for one with a calf at foot. We factoried her

K.G.

Had one couple of years and decided to factory her. booked her in but the morning she was going she was definitely in trouble and I was lucky to get her in. I would get her in as fast as I could as if she gets sick she ll drop very fast as that cow was 100 % the night before.

farmer2018

Factory preference over mart?