Anyone looking for a cow in Indiana?

Sunraven · #1 06/25/07, 11:40 AM

Not sure if anyone would be interested or not, she's not currently in the best of shape, but 'till a couple weeks ago was one of our best producers! Anyway, she fell down on the lot, banged her leg up, then was picked up a drug around with a skidloader a few times and ended up with a bit of nerve damage in that one hind leg. We've got her legs hobbled together but she just can't get up and down on the concrete of the lot. She's fine in the barn on deep bedding, gets up without trouble, she ought to be in a dirt lot or pasture. She was in with a couple calves 'till this weekend but I don't know that they were doing the best job of keeping her milked out, holsteins are not very bright, they'd suck when I put them on her but otherwise wouldn't pay much attention to her. They never acted hungry so I reckon they must have nursed when I wasn't around. Anyway, she's going to dry up if someone doesn't start milking her. She's gentle, I can put her in a corner of the barn and milk her.

If anyone is interested in her for cull cow price give me a call, otherwise she's going on the truck not too far in the future. We're in Brookville, Indiana which is about thirty miles from Cincinnati, OH. 765-480-8384

caseyweiss · #2 06/26/07, 08:49 AM

what breed and age is she?

Farmer's Wife · #3 06/26/07, 02:56 PM

What is the price on her?

Sunraven · #4 06/26/07, 09:38 PM

Have sent both of you messages.

Wendy · #5 06/26/07, 11:16 PM

I am also interested. I am not far from Brookville.

Sunraven · #6 06/27/07, 07:28 AM

Those of you that are nearby and want to come look at her give me a call and I'll give you directions to the farm. I'll be there for a little while today. That number in the first post is my cell number. If I don't answer leave a message and I'll get back to you, a lot of times I can't hear it ring when I'm on a tractor or something.

Sunraven · #7 06/30/07, 11:24 AM

No one wants an inexpensive cow? She's walking good now and the swelling in the front leg is going down. Have been milking her everyday since I posted here about her and her production is going back up. She's only been fresh 46 days. First $350 takes her home. I've got 150 other cows to look after, plus heifers, and calves, I don't have time to mess with her. Hand milking kills my back and I'm not going to do it much longer, generally they go down with an injured leg I put a bullet in their head if they can't get up, I just thought I could help someone out since I figured this cow as being likely to recover if babied along.

Tango · #8 06/30/07, 03:06 PM

Sunraven, I want her but you are far from me. Can you pm me your addrees so I can mapquest it. For somone coming a long distance how low would you price her? Not asking for myself but for anyone who wanted to give the cow a decent home in exchange for light homesteading duties. South of you, we're in a drought, our pastures are drying, hay is expensive, and a cow is the last thing a person wants to add. I imagine she's a Hostein? Can't someone bring her to me? Meet me halfway with her? Donate to her cause??? Again, not necessarily asking for myself but for anyone who can give her a home.

Sunraven · #9 06/30/07, 04:36 PM

8156 Oxford Pike Brookville, IN 47012
Not sure what the cull cow price is right now, I think the least we've got for one was about $270 and that was a small heifer was just about skin and bones. Course if they go down in the slaughterhouse the farm has to pay them to dispose of her. I think she'd make it through at this point just have to wait for the penicillin to clear her system. I can ask the boss what the lowest he'd take, I don't own the cows, I'm just a herdsman(woman?). I know they wouldn't donate her unless she was on her last breath. No delivery unless you wanted to pay fuel costs there and back. She is a Holstein, everything on the farm is. She's had mostly AI calves, this calf was sired by one of our bulls because the boss broke his ankle last year and we just turned the bull in with the cows since no one else would AI.

Tango · #10 06/30/07, 07:43 PM

Thank you for the information Sunraven. I hope spmeone reading can either help or buy her outright. Not sure what I can do but who knows. Lots of things can happen in 24 hours time. She sounds like a lovely large homestead cow.

Sunraven · #11 06/30/07, 08:57 PM

Yeah, I think she'd be a good family cow, she's just been injured and isn't coordinated enough to walk on the slick concrete anymore, which is where she's gotta be in a commercial dairy. We loose a number of good cows every year for the same reason, some of them would probably recover if I could take the time to mess with them. We just don't have a good place to care for injured cows. I've got her in an alley right now that's normally reserved for newborn calves, I've a gate across one end, and I have to carry buckets of water and feed to her every day. The other thing we loose a lot of cows to is mastitis, three titters and such, some of those would be perfectly fine family cows, and the purchase price would be tiny compared to buying a heifer and you'd already have a calving and milking history- has she had trouble calving, does she settle AI, how much milk she's been giving, etc.

Tango · #12 07/02/07, 10:28 AM

I'm working on it. Realize you can't do anything to hold her but just wanted to let you know at least one person is working on it.

ozark_jewels · #13 07/02/07, 10:33 AM

I really wish I could take her.....but the distance is a killer.

Tango · #14 07/02/07, 10:37 AM

I just mapquested you and I'm less than 8 hours one way. That is very doable. I just need to scratch up money to buy her and pay for gas. I have a secret friend that has just offered to donate to the cause.

So it is starting to roll a little - if anyone wants to buy her please feel free. Just think she's worth trying to save just in case no one buys her.

Tango · #15 07/04/07, 05:30 AM

Well my first try at cow rescue and I've failed. It won't happen from my side. I'm sorry about this, very much so. I hope someone else can take her. She's practically given away even with gasoline but it is just my circumstances at the time. They go up and down a lot. Thanks for trying to save her and coming to HT. I hope you continue to do so. Perhaps next time someone can take up the offer. Perhaps someone will still take this one. I hope so.

Sunraven · #16 07/05/07, 04:54 PM

That's alright, no big deal. Not 100% sure if she's still for sale anyway, I've been bringing her into the parlor the past three mornings, though I would still want to get rid of her. I don't think she'll be sound enough any time soon to compete on the lot. I was off yesterday and the boss turned her out with the rest of the herd and she got herself stuck in a free stall. She's been giving around 4 gallons a milking and should give more. She's been slowly going back up since she's feeling good enough to stand at the feed bunk. Holsteins do eat a lot, especially if you want them to really produce, they're just big cows. Probably not the best choice for a small farm 'less you had the acreage to pasture.

We have down cows all the time, it's just part of being on a dairy, 150 cows on concrete almost 24/7 is just asking for trouble. We have a little first calf heifer went down yesterday. She's got a broke hind leg, just came in heat, she probably got knocked down by one of the bigger cows mounting her. Need to remember to take a rifle with me to work tomorrow. Shame they won't butcher down cows anymore. Am tempted to take a knife and couple bags along, could cut out some chunks of meat. She'll just be going on the fertilizer truck anyway. Anyone want some hamburger?