"helping me deliver a breech calf" She helped him with a cow that was having difficulty giving birth, because the baby was turned backwards and got stuck. Breech birth is very likely to kill the calf (baby cow) and maybe the mother also, so you have to pull the baby out. It is very difficult and unpleasant.
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