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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · October 1, 2020 · P5

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Jerry Crownover during a three-day holiday “Well, let’s get her in the OF-A….gun.”
weekend, I assured him that I chute and see what might be After composing myself, I
would be right over. going on,” I requested. The went in, again, up to my arm-
I got dressed and drove the gentle cow went right in, so pit, turned to the young couple
one mile over to his corral, I gloved up and proceeded to and sadly stated, “We’ve got a
where the cow was confined. enter the business end, when problem.” All I could feel was
He proceeded to tell me that she promptly kicked the liv- a tail and one rear leg. For
her water bag had been out ing daylights out of my right the next 45 minutes, in the
for some time, but the cow shin. The neighbor’s wife was hot and humid air of a late
was not straining or showing there, holding the tail, so I was summer night, my neighbor
any other signs of labor, even able to catch myself in time to and I took turns trying to re-
though she was due to calve. only mutter the words, “SON- continued on page 14

It was almost dark, on
Labor Day evening, when my
phone rang with the caller ID
showing a nearby neighbor
was on the other end.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m just laying here on the
couch, watching TV. What’s
going on?”
My young neighbor asked
if I might come over and look
at one of his cows, that was
having a problem. Assuming
that he had already hit a dead
end in trying to get a vet out,

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