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Northeast Iowa | In honor of the former US Farm Report weather guy, might I suggest you name the calf Earl Finkle if it's a bull calf?
I had a couple of ET recips who decided to do me a favor and not calve on Christmas Eve when they were due. They dropped the bomb ten or twelve days early when we were in blizzard mode and the roads were a mess. They had Holstein calves in them, so the owners show up within an hour or so of birth and take the high-end Holsteins home with them. Then they're not my problem. That quick delivery turnaround is a lot more fun with drifted roads.
Another Murphy candidate a couple years ago managed to climb into a tractor tire feed bunk and get herself stuck overnight. She was room temperature and swelled up the next morning. Not just dead, though. She was dead and wedged tight inside the tire with her new post-mortem gaseous dimensions. I flipped the tire over and she didn't plop out. It took a lot of creative physics to get her loose.
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Murphy's law of pregant cows
