Re: Birthing up front and personal
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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05/18/22 03:56 PM
05/18/22 03:56 PM
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load up the shotgun and you can pop the coyotes when they come sniffing around after them.
very cool to see that
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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05/18/22 04:22 PM
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That's great to see. Have seen many just born fawn's over the years on the farm but never seen one "drop". What an amazing sight it must have been. And triplets at that wow
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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05/18/22 04:55 PM
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You are very fortunate to witness that, I wish I could have been there.
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
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05/18/22 05:10 PM
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Something I never seen
Out in Eastern Colorado some years back I saw two antelope does. One was all hunched up about to calve. About 2-300 yards away was a big coyote watching. I was in my semi and didnt have time to drive over the hill and sneak back to watch. I wanted to see if the second antelope was going to help mom protect jr. Got no idea if that coyote ate afterbirth or baby antelope or both for breakfast. He sure enough was waiting for a feast though.
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
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05/18/22 09:44 PM
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I was almost afraid to open this thread and look. !
Last edited by Gary Benson; 05/18/22 09:45 PM.
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
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05/19/22 06:16 AM
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I got to witness an elk calf birth a few years ago. Got a radio call to go look into an elk standing about 20 yards off the road in obvious distress. Got to the place and there's 15 people trying to keep this elk in the field. Yelled on the loudspeaker for them all to move away from the elk.
When I finally got the people corralled I told them to sit there and watch. I told them all to get their cameras out, They were going to witness something that none of their friends ever did. About 10 minutes later you could see her start to push. By this time my boss had shown up. I think the whole process took about 2 minutes and she was cleaning the calf up. After about 10,000 licks the calf was clean to her satisfaction. She then walked off about 40 yards and laid down. I looked at my boss and said; "Collar and tag?" He was like yup. We got about 20 witnesses to the time of birth.
We walked out put a collar and ear tag on, and after a few pictures we walked out of the field. I think we only had contact with it for about 5 minutes. That cow was so exhausted she never moved from her spot until we were done. She then got up and walked over licked it about 10,000 more times and went back and laid down. I came back through about 2 hours later and did a collar check on it. She had moved the calf 1/4 mile up the road into some thick ferns.
The thing that amazed me, other than the birth itself, was from birth to her laying down was about 30 minutes. There was no blood or afterbirth anywhere around the calf. It even ate the dirt and grass around the calf.
It was later that day that I realized what I had witnessed. We were all debriefing at a local restaurant and kind of just went quiet. My boss asked if I was ok. I said "yeah, the enormity of what we witnessed today just hit me. I was so focused on the whole biological aspect I never took a minute to actually realize what I was seeing."
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Re: Birthing up front and personal
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05/19/22 09:31 AM
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Saw this old girl this morning early morning in the back with some turkeys. She is about ready to drop it appears. I have been keeping an eye on her. She gave birth to a fawn 6 years ago or so when she was young. She got attacked by some coyotes. She lost the fawn and they tore her up pretty good. She had a tear of hide hanging down her right side about 8 inches or so for the longest time. It was about and 1/1/2" wide piece as a guess in size. It took a long time to heal up and there is still a healed rough hair area I can still see to this day behind her right front shoulder area. That was how I could identify her from other deer for the longest time.. She is shedding her winter hair now. Then she got attacked again and got her right front leg broken just up from her hoof 6" or so. It would just dangle for the longest time but it eventually healed over many months. It had a near golf ball size area at the break site for quite some time. Now you can barely see it unless you look real hard. Animals are amazing in their healing capacity and ability to adapt to handicaps. During this healing period and her limping due to the injury, she was shunned by the other local deer for the longest time. They wouldn't let her mingle or feed with them. They would rear up and attack her aggressively and lay their ears back to warn her to stay away. Old gal has had a tough time of it. She never got bred or was receptive to breeding obviously until all these years later.
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