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Well weaning is done for another year. As we thought, the second day was full of glitches. The wrist being that when we had finished cutting the calves away from their mothers., we took a head count of them and there were only 28 calves ( there should have been29) and there were only 27 cows instead of 29.  I took the second trailer load home while Robt. rode the pasture looking for them, he found one cow lame and barely able to walk, with a broken hip and another cow dead. Half eaten, looks like maybe wolves or she died of illness and they found her after the fact.  Her calve, oddly enough was laying 300 feet away in the heavy spruce woods lame on two legs but alive. Robt. walked him over to the corral and he lame cow made it there on her own but did require help getting in the trailer. Robt gave her his shoulder on her ass and half lifted her into the back while I used a post to push her bad leg into the trailer.

At home, a 15 yr old cow ( that's old for cow) is enjoying her last days on earth sadly, she has been an awesome cow but has such bad arthritis that she can only shuffle her back legs to walk, she has lost condition and we have decided to have her put down.