To Save A Cow

[riptides]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Anyone ever have this problem? )</font>

With the wife, vet or the horse?
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Never had a horse with a tooth problem, other than getting them floated. It can get bad enough, though. So go on thier advise.

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[Glenn1]

Do you think Delta Dental will cover the visit? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[txdon]

<font color="blue">"...that this incident was anything but the ordinary" - cowboydoc </font>

Cowboydoc you are exactly right, to all the ranchers around here this is just the thing to do. The ONLY difference is that I had a camera going when it happened and the reason for posting is to show the 102nd job a FEL can do. After I read your post I kind of laughed to myself. When I grabbed the camera, I specifically thought of you, and thought this would be nothing new for cowboydoc but it will make a good FEL post if it worked. I wish I could have called you, I didn't know If this move was possible without hurting the cow so we took it very slowly. We had tried several ways before we resorted to the FEL: pushing, pulling, rope, straps and come-along. Right before I picked her up I was wondering if I should get my Bobcat grapple bucket to hold her in. If this would not have worked I would have tried it. How do you get your down cows on to the trailer when they are in this condition, or do you just treat them in the field?

 

[cowboydoc]

Don we have a harness that we use for them. We put the harness around the cow and put a chain on the ends where it pulls together. You can then attach this to your front end loader. On a cow that we can't get moved to get the harness on we have a platform that we use with the pallet forks. We use a come along and pull them up on platform by their feet.

When I was a kid we used to use boom poles to do the same job. Not very many front end loaders back then.