Our Vet made a Ranch Call to give the babies their first round of baby shots, attach ear tags, and do "brain surgeries" on the bulls. We ran Fria thru the chute without a hitch. She got her ear tag and first round of shots. Jesus was next. He started jumping around like a wild man and got his head stuck in the cross bars! We had to wait for him to un catch himself because we could really do nothing. After a few minutes, he started jumping around again and freed himself just to get his head stuck again and one of his front legs!!!! Now we were in a real pickle!! Jesus just hung there.... We of course were unable to free him!! I called our neighbor, a man, to see if he had any ideas and to come over. By the time he arrived, Jesus had started jumping around again and managed to free his head and leg. We had had enough and opened the side gate to get him out of the chute, tho he was captured so we could run him thru again later if we wanted to chance it!!! The whole incident was a scary nightmare as he could have died because we couldn't free him. BUT the worse did not happen, thankfully. We had never had something like this happen with a baby in the chute. We modified the width of the chute for the rest of the babies so we could finish. WE even took a chance, sent Jesus thru again, and finished him up. The whole process reminded us again how unpredictable cows/babies can be and to be ready for all the millions of weird things that can happen.
Our hay fields are to get sprayed with weed killer this week sometime. We're opting for a less lethal weed killer up by the house because we're weening babies, etc. and need the pasture for them. It will be interesting to see if it does the job good enough to have a good crop of hay.
