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#47 Stormy And Cirrus

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black angus cowMarilyn was the first to notice #47 Stormy out in the pasture near the house. #47 is what we usually call this cow and she in known as ‘my complainer’ when in the barn. She keeps a constant, low moo to let me know that she is not getting enough to eat even though Mike keeps telling me that I am feeding her too much and she is too fat for her own good. But on this day, Marilyn was out in the yard and noticed her acting funny with the typical tail up in the air and sniffing the ground while kicking at her belly, laying down in the grass one minute and standing back up the next. She was doing a lot of complaining so I fed her some grain in a pan while she was in the field since she didn’t want to go into the barn.

I don’t always get to be right there when a calf is being born so after grabbing the calf pullers, a device to assist the cow during birth, I went out to see how far #47 was along. Sure enough, I could see the front hooves. They were pointed in the right direction and the tip of a nose was visible. Now #47 has had quite a few babies over the years and has never had any trouble, but since I was right there, I had to get into the middle of things to see if I could help.

black angus cow with newborn calf#47 was in full labor, halfway on her side in the grass and pushing like crazy. I could see the baby’s nose and its little tongue beginning to hang out and dart around. By holding onto the hooves, I was able to add enough pressure for the next push that shot the calf out and flopped me back off my haunches and into the dirt. Before I could get up, #47 had stood and was attending to licking off her new baby.

Welcome to the farm heifer SAF Cirrus, born 4/8/8/2020 weighing in at 83 lbs. She is the daughter of SAF Grasshopper who was sold to a farm up by Seattle to be the herd sire there.

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