Calving Season Statistics

With only one cow left to calve, I will post our calving season statistics.
*We freshened 175 cows thus far.
*We are milking 169 cows.
*Our calving season began February 21, 2013.
*Calving Difficulty -out of 175 calvings, we pulled 12 calves and the vet had to cut one out.  That makes 13 total, which equates to about 7.4% of the total calvings.  They were all heifers and looking at them, they usually fell into one of the two categories of either possessing a very narrow rump or being only medium sized (for our heifers) and having a huge bull calf.
*We had 4 recorded milk fevers (2.2% of the herd).  Danny fed increased levels of Mag Ox this year along with corn gluten feed for the pre-fresh ration and he feels as though that helped.
*There were 6 animals with retained placentas (3.4%).  We treat our retained placenta cows with 1 drench of whole leaf aloe vera gel from Pharm Aloe starting 24 hours after calving if the cow has not cleaned in that time frame.  We continue with this treatment until they drop the cleanings.  Most of the cows dropped their cleanings within three days of beginning treatment (we did have a few cows that waited until several days after calving to begin to show that they did not drop their cleanings).
*We had one cow that never calved, but that we began milking.  She looked as though she was close to calving for about 4 days.  Then we noticed she seemed to look depressed and actually looked like her udder was beginning to shrink.  We drenched her with aloe and Cal-drench and called the vet.  We described her symptoms to him, and without looking at her, the vet said it sounded as if she has a twisted uterus and was unable to calve and her body simply mummified the calf.  She is milking now, and appears to be fine (other then she never had her calf - I palpated her and confirmed that her calf was still in there).  Every once in a while she will expel horrible smelling watery discharge.  She is alert and has a very healthy appetite and has not lost condition.  She is now 63 days in milk.
*We had one cow that turned out to be open.
* One cow turned out to be pregnant to a much later breeding date.  So, we sold her (she was also showing symptoms of johnes and we tend to get rid of cows pretty quickly once they get on that list).
* One heifer sort of aborted.  She bagged up and never actually had the calf, but her body was in the process of trying to mummify it--we sold her.
*Three cows were shipped soon after calving (1.7%).  One was a johnes cow.  Two were heifers with no decent quarters--either blind or extreme mastitis in all four quarters.
* and finally, 3 cows died within 40 days of calving (1.7%) .  One was a result of milk fever and a hillside.  One was a result of trying to calve on a hillside, and one cow (just today) was anemic with a heart murmer and had to be put down.

So, we are waiting on one lone cow to calve.  She is in with the milking herd, because there is no way she would stay in a paddock by herself.

Blessings to each of you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

"My grace is sufficient for thee:  for my strength is made perfect in weakness."
~2 Corinthians 12:9