it is nice to see a video of a calf being born in a clean stall on fresh straw .So many vids of calves born in muck it is great to see someone who cares
Actually the placement of the chains is exactly correct. I am a beef veterinarian and about 95% of all cows give birth on their own to a live calf. There are and surely will be times in the future when a cow needs a little help. We use the fetal extractor when the calf is too large to be delivered on their own or when we cannot easily pull it out by hand. We even have to do Cesarean sections on a very small percent of cows.
The farmer put the piece of hay in the calves nose to help clear the airway. It wasn't breathing at first, the hay helps things along. Swishing the little piece of hay in there for a second is actually very efficient in removing mucus from a stuffy little newborn calf nose.
That cow is so lucky to have an owner that cares so much for her! True cruelty is to "just leave them alone" because that can and many times will cause the animal pain, and sometimes an terrible death in foal bed. To die while trying to birth, that is cruel to any animal when we could take our responsibility like this guy, and make sure both cow and baby is ok!
The device is a calf puller. Please note how carefully and quietly the man works. This is to avoid upsetting the young cow. When a young or smallish cow is having a first calf sometimes they need a little help. This avoids a long delivery that would be stressful to the cow and possibly fatal to the calf. Cattle still deliver in the pasture but careful attention to a first calf heifer can be the difference between a long fruitful life or a trip to the cannery. This is called good husbandry.
The farmer is not just "yanking it out". He's pulling and using the calf jack as the cow has contractions - so when she pushes, he helps her by pulling. He doesn't just keep yanking on the calf. They're working as a team to get the calf out safely. If she didn't like what he was doing, she'd kick him. He would not have even started this procedure if she was able to deliver the calf on her own.
I asked this awhile back and the guy says that sometimes cows have difficulty, and they only do this when there is a problem, otherwise the farmers are more than happy to let the cow do it.
whos to say baby wasnt stuck as quite often happens or labour was to long ..that is a far better method then others i have wittnessed.he actually took alot of care..the chains would not of harmed the calf....and you can tell shes going to be a great mummy! :)
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First. This farmer answered back that he only does it when necessary and most cows do fine on their own. I'm sure your grandpa has some tricks up his sleeve when the birth doesn't go right. Sooner or later he's had to deal with situations like this if he's ever dealt with a lot of cattle.Ask him what difficult situations he's run into and what he did about it.
If the cow is calving normaly without difficulty the farmer won't help, once the cow sharts having difficulty farmers will help usaully for heifers calving for the first time. If the cow has not progressed within 30 minuites is when the farmer starts to help. It dosent hurt the mother cow, cows are 2000 pounds and the cervex is thick so they don't feel it. The chain is a calving chain.
Hes standing back because he doesnt want to be kicked in the family jewels. And a chain is actually the most sterile way to help pull the calf out. the size of the calf, there is no way it was coming out on its own.
one of the calfs forelegs was flexed, which means the cow would have had a lot of trouble giving birth, if she could at all. although, if they had of just repositioned the calf, she would have probably been fine the rest of the way
To get more grip on these legs, you need a chain or a rope. When you can't get the calf to move quick enough, so as to get at least it's thorax out, so it can breathe, it will die. So that's why you need a ratchet or something that gives you the power to get the calves shoulders to pass the pelvic rim. Hoped to get some clarity.
You people are crazy.... You think they are doing that because they just want to??? No, she was not able to have the calf and if they didn't pull it out they both might have died.... We have had to help sows that were in trouble... You do everything you can for a live birth.... What is not natural is letting them die when you can help...
Öm i think people here doesn't get upset about the fact that they're pulling the calf? It's how they're doing it. I've seen people do it in another safer methods not using some painful shit like they are, so how can we be crazy by not liking this methods? I don't even get how u see it as if it would be ok, when there's another safer, just saying.
Dääna please explain what other methods you have seen, as i have been doing this for over 10 years and ive yet to see any other practices used, even the vets use this procedure.
mysticpluck8.....are you a dairy farmer? Well I am, and with the loss of a heifer starting at about $2000, not to mention that this is a breathing creature (both cow and calf) sometimes they need help. No different then humans who have C-sections or have a vac assisted delivery..Have a heart
All cows on a farm have ear tags. It lets you know who they are, who their parents are, etc. It's like a name tag. It has nothing to do with being slaughtered.
Than we can talk about how one can help a cow in labour. First of all. You need to assure that the birth is even possible. That's why one needs to feel inside and have a little bit of traction on the legs of the calf. When you are sure it's a possible delivery and you are sure all the soft tissue has fully expanded, you need to get more traction on the legs. I can assure you, you cannot get the force you need at a certain point on the calves legs when you only have them in your grip.
I've heard that they have to help becasue the calf is breathing at first when It pointed the nose out so if it takes too long the baby can die? is it true?
Headlock is necessary in this case...appears to be a beef, probably isn't worked with much. The chain is sterilized with soap and hot water to reduce contamination. She is very obviously a first time heifer. I would imagine what happened was momma was trying to have baby for a long while without success, and she got tired. Or they knew the sire was a high bw sire. May be precautionary, but I would imagine that they saw her. Calf's fairly large for a beefer.
Although just being on a farm ain't enough... The person saying that comment was an imbecile and you called him out on it, good for you... I live on a ranch and I could not even start with all the things wrong with this method, so Immona let it go...
well its actually dangerous because they really cant push it out by themselves. my grandpa is a farmer and he had to help with a cow and her birth. he told me it is dangerous if they do it by themselves so thats why famers help with the birth
Ranchers don't normally help unless they need to. Would you want to do that? I don't think so. Chances are the mom had trouble getting the baby out, which is when the ranchers have to step in and help. I'm guessing this is a large cattle operation and it's not like it's possible for them to do this will all of their cattle. In some situations if they don't help they could end up losing the calf and the mom.
I have had to help my friend's goats give birth. Sometimes the baby could be too big, The rump was coming first or the head is turned making it impossible to birth with out help. In other words maybe humans shouldn't get any help giving birth as well.
i dont have knowledge in this but when ive seen it i thought its not good to do this for the calf because its new born and his bones might be not strong and get ripped but i dunno still sweet to watch ^^ with this music
I' d like to give a comment on this. As I'm very, very often asked to assist a cow in labour, i can maybe give you some insight in how this works. First of all, this is a very young cow at the looks of it, with as a result a very narrow and V-shaped birth canal. On the outside cows are, other then horses etc., wider then they are tall when they lie down and so are the calves. But the pelvic structure inside isn't. That's why in young cows, there's often an need of human help.
Come on, when a human gives birth we have high tech gizmos in a maternal ward. Some cattle needs assistance for giving birth. I'm sure this man has his reason for doing it that way.
often, if you use a towell or something like that the mother will reject and perhaps seriously injure the calf because it doesnt smell like her calf, it smells like human. and dont try to tell me I dont know what Im talking about, I run a farm practically by myself
@lanaidickson your close but he used the equipment because the cow was tight and was having trouble calfing . so he used the calf jack to pull the calf out of the cow
We didn't see why they had to pull it out, but once the head was free the cow could have finished on her own. I get the feeling it was to keep the video length within reason.
We only set in when the cow can't do it herself like when the head isn't coming like it should or the calf is backwards and even if the calf is to big to pass by the hips then we must do a c section. Once the calf is on the ground I clear it airway make sure its breathing( if a calf needs to be pulled chances are its cord has broke already) then I move him to a pen knee deep in straw and let the cow in to do her job as a mother. Unless the cow can't provide for her calf I do not pull the calf
I pull calves out at least once a week in my job at a dairy. I use rope instead of chain, but its pretty much the same as what you see here. no idea what the hay in nose thing was for, maybe for the camera. its a little gross, sure, but helping that little thing into the world, where it and the mother would have died if you wernt there is an awesome feeling
just like having a child inside a jail.... I appreciate the knowledge of farmers, and their experience... but it still a jail for those cows and their babies...
I've never actually lived on a farm, only visited a couple times, and I know nothing about birthing animals, but I am sure as hell that is not the way give birth. They are forcing her to have the calf. Couldn't all the chains hurt the calf like breaking a bone or dislocating something? That's just terrible...
Thank you for such kind and intellegent replies to my quite serious question. I think it's quite a statement about mankind that we have developed and bred our cattle to the point where they ARE no longer able to give birth unassisted. Isn't mankind brilliant?! It's quite sad to me. ..PS, Birthing doesn't involve the ass, son. I know this from giving birth naturally to two sons already. Thank you.
you little and beautiful creature....welcome in a world where you most probably had your throat slit open and have been served in a restaurant to some gentle and caring people. Life and death circuit makes me sick
the calf was obviously too big ( the cow is fat and very narrow at the end and a hard calved bull was probably put on her ) so she might not have been able to naturally calve. mechanical extraction ? its called jacking a calf . nothing wrong with it once the person jackin knows what they are doing
