May 15th 2014, 03:46 PM
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Apr 2009 cental Pennsylvania Cervid: taxidermy |
She may just be in labor, labor can vary in length from animal to animal. As long as the calve hasn't started out yet, it can still be alive, but if she don't have the calf soon I would be concerned that the calf may die inside her, or is too big for the hind to push out. Over the last 20 years we have lost a couple calves in our cattle herd because the calf was to big for the mother to get out on her own. Once the calfs feet show, you only have an hour, if that, to get it out or it can suffocate. I have noticed with our cattle, that In a normal birth, from the time you see the hooves protruding, she usually gets the calf out within a half hour.
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