Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

Not So Safe in Calf

Astute ranchers pregnancy test their cows in August but this does not fit operations where cows are still out on summer range. At the other extreme, are those who skip preg checking knowing by the end of February, spring calvers can be spotted by ranchers inspecting their herd from the back of their Japanese saddle horse. This is the most expensive way to pregnancy test. An open cow in February has already consumed over $200 of winter feed and if you keep her another two months to confirm her non-pregnant status, she will have chewed another $150 from your checkbook before she goes to town.

Let’s say you are one of the operators who preg checks in August and you historically average 93 percent conception rates. Things are chugging along nicely until 2021 when your veterinarian insists on poking your bred cows with a new high-tech, super adjuvanted shot. You resist at first but finally yield. As January turns into February, you begin questioning the gestational status of several cows. There are always 1-2 percent opens which get lumped into the “fell on the ice” category but this calving season there are clearly 8 percent of previously pregnant cows which are not going to calve. What gives? You call your vet, and he is as baffled as you. Finally, you ask the obvious, “Could it be the new shot?”

“No,” the vet responds, “it is safe and effective.” Searching for more answers, the rancher finds 19 European countries aggressively used the same high-tech jab and they too saw their birth rates plunge by 8.4 percent approximately nine months later. Sweden was so alarmed by the data they blocked these vital statistics from public access. Whether plunging birth rates are temporary or permanent cannot be proven until we get farther down the road. In the meantime, we must trust the developers of the jab would never do anything nefarious or negligent to harm a pregnancy, and this brings me to my point.

In case you missed my leap across the Atlantic, the reproductive failure in Europe is not in cows, it is in pregnant women exactly nine months after being Covid jabbed. With fertility rates plunging below the level needed to maintain a population, the ancient cultures of Europe are dying. This is tragic.

I intentionally left a gate open for the haters so they can ignore the data to scream “the cow doctor labeled pregnant mothers as cows!” They are so obsessed with cancelling those with whom they disagree, the fact big pharma sterilized them escapes their notice. Have you had your booster?