A difficult moment

Still waiting for the last heifer to calve - we have five calves so far. Unfortunately, Chrisna, one of our older pedigree Saler cows lost her calf after a extra-long pregnancy and a breech birth. Kev and I were both devastated as this is the first calf we have lost in all our calvings since taking over the farm. The calf was very big though, and obviously late (about two and a half weeks by my reckoning) and although the vet got him out fairly easily once he had found both legs, he had swallowed a lot of fluid and just never got going with suckling. Chrisna has had some antibiotic treatment and a week on straw and water diet to try and dry up her milk. We did not fancy trying to adopt a calf onto her as she wasn't too motherly with her own in the time he was alive, so she will just go out with the dry heifers and back to the bull in July.