She defecated twice before going into the loading chute and head gate. She defecated twice more standing there. Once after I took the old bandage off. So I had to get a pail of water and clean manure off her wound. And off my pants leg hit by the splattering.
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| Avoiding the manure while wrapping her leg was a challenge |
This afternoon I talked with another rancher I know who has lots of cattle. He also has a cow who badly cut her leg. He suspects some tendons were also cut. His solution was to see if the cow makes it. He did remove the maggots from the wound. The maggots didn't return and the wound appears to be healing. He suspects removing the dead flesh is why the maggots didn't return.
He has had cattle with lumpy jaws ("Sometime they can live a long time."). This year he had a four day old calf who was injured and lost sight in one eye. She spent three weeks, twice a day, either bottle feeding the calf or teaching and helping it drink from its mother before the calf made it. And his mature bull got a twisted penis ("Like a corkscrew"). Fortunately he had a younger backup bull he could use to breed the cows.
So he wasn't entirely sympathetic to all my cattle problems this year.
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