The beautiful DCC cow Jam Packed gave birth to several calves in her young life including Drop Box, (3 Bronze Horn Champion) Real Jam and Full Pack. Jam Packed was ITLA International Champion Non Halter, and 2017 Horn Showcase Champion, now well over 90" T2T.
Full Pack, age 18 months, was shown by Kara Dickinson at the 2017 ITLA Championship and won Champion Jr Heifer. In this photo she was well along pregnant to the promising young Jet Black son, Jet Lag.
In the Spring of 2018 Full Pack was growing a large mid-section. New things were going to happen in the life of this special age 2 heifer. She has never been a mother before. Then on July 11 something happened.
A beautiful Jet Lag heifer was born, yet only lived a few normal days until something horrible happened. When I checked pastures this innocent, beautiful heifer had her right front leg flopping out in a 45 degree angle with a crunching sound as she tried to hop along and keep up with her mother. Her leg was cleanly broken apart. Think of the pain!!!
The good vet, Dr. Harold Kemp, with his professional-experienced hands, tenderly-moved the broken leg around and set it into the correct position.
A special type cast was constructed to hold the leg in the correct placement while she takes a longinduced nap.
A lot of helping hands made it all fit perfect. She never felt a thing as she slept.
Everything was placed right where it was supposed to be, she wakes up. Now to control her activity so she takes it easy for slow-solid healing. She is placed in a clean stall and her loving mother can spend quality time with her several times every day.
A different cast was changed to fit this growing heifer. She still isn't allowed to run and play like the other calves. She wants to be a calf running over the DCC hills. She has gone through a lot and doesn't trust those hands that saved her life. She is scared.
The day came, one month later. She had her cast removed and is walking tenderly on the corrected problem leg. Her leg is not strong. The tendons are not stretched the corrected length. Yet, she is up and going. Unfortunately no one could tell her to be careful. She remained in the stall for another week or so just to be safe. Every red and white spotted life matters. The goal is to save every young life at DCC.
See mother and daughter at the 2018 ITLA Championship Show and Futurity at Enid, Oklahoma. She is up, running, growing and gets to travel to the big show with her mother Full Pack. Come to Enid and say hello to this beautiful pair that have had a hard, hard life this Summer. It will be a long trip and this little heifer has never traveled before. Come cheer for this brave little heifer -- Oct 25-27.
