We were just leaving the last farm call yesterday when Jenn called and said that a certain client had a cow with a breeched baby that he couldnt get pulled. Now this client is very good with cattle and has been around them for a long time and has worked for a veterinarian before so I knew if he couldnt get it out, it had to be bad!! And it was!
He had tried the day before to get it out and had ripped the pelvis in pieces because the thing had been dead for several days and was rotting inside! The cow stunk so bad just walking up to the corral that I knew it was going to be bad and it was worse than bad!!
I was able to get ahold of one of the rear legs and it pulled off and then the other rear leg and then the pelvis but after that, it was all downhill!
Trying to not vomit! The smell was bad!
One leg!
More leg and more heaving!
I think Tyler thought is was cool! Both the owner and I worked for two hours and could only get half the calf out. It was too rotten to be able to hook onto something and have it hold but not so rotten that we could just pull it out piece by piece with our hands. Neither one of us could reach a front leg and after struggling the last hour and getting no where I told him to take her home and put her out of her misery or give it another day of rotting and see if he could get more out.
I felt horrible not getting the calf out but there just wasnt anything else we could do and there was no way I was cutting the cow open to take a rotting dead calf out!
I smelled so bad even after sitting in a bath for 30 minutes and showering. It was the worst I have done for probably 10 years now! And I hope to not have to do one again for, well, forever!!
Still stunk this morning when I got up at 4:30 and showered and scrubbed and headed out the door by 6.
legs
squats on the smith
*105# for 20
*125# for 18
*145# for 15
*165# for 12
*185# for 8
should have done more on the last set and I need to go deeper on the last three sets. Mind over matter!
lying leg curls
*10# for 20
*15# for 15
*20# for 12
*25# for 10
leg extensions
*25# for 20 for 4 sets
the knees were feeling pretty shot so I kept it pretty light and easy.
incline situps
*18 for 3 sets
We had a pretty easy surgery schedule this morning which was nice because we had a bazillion sick dogs come in this morning.
The afternoon has been plum crazy! The book is completely doubled and everybody is actually coming in! Ahhhhh it is great as it makes time go by very fast!
We are going to do a c section on a little chihuahua as soon as we get done with our last appointment. She has five puppies but not enough red blood cells to push them all out and I am leaving early tomorrow morning for 5 days so if she goes into labor and needs a c section I wont be around and the people dont have any money so the other clinic would let the cute thing die! So since she is 62 days today, we are going to cut them out and all will be great! 
