Animals that need veterinary intervention during birth?

[tali1]

Apart from Cows what other animals need veterinary intervention during birth- and why can't they give birth without human assistance?

[Clanad]

Living here in the western U.S. in ranching country I can attest that all large animals that we deal with on a daily basis can require human assistance even before the birth event. We deal, especailly with older mother cows, with porlapse. The remedy for this to see the pregnancy through to a live birth can seem somewhat brutal, yet it saves both the mother and calf. We can repair vaginal prolapse, but uterine prolapse requires we call the veternarian.
Each year we introduce new heifers to the herd to refresh the DNA pool as well as replace the older cows with new blood. I dislike the onset of March when we have large numbers of heifers having thier first calf. It's lots of work and it seems they always know when it's 3:00 AM to have their most difficult problems...

My sheep raising neigbors don;t have it any better. A new neighbor sown the road 5 miles is raising llamas... guess what? He reports the same kind of problems on occasion...

[seekeerz]

While agreeing with Clanad in every way, it's not only large animals that may need a vet's intervention.
My daughter's Colourpoint was a very small cat and in hindsight should probably not have been used for breeding purposes - she required a C section for the birth of her four kittens, one of which did not survive, but mum and the remaining three all came through ok

Horses too are a large animal that may need assistance, certainly they need observation at foaling time.

[wildwood]

It are usually the domesticated animals that have birthing troubles because their shape, size and reproduction routine is governed by the whims of humans. Some animals are so mis-shapen through selective breeding for maximum production so that they can't even mate naturally.

Wild animals hardly ever need assistance and those who do mostly expire and will not pass their inferior genes onto subsequent generations. This is how evolution works...... until we came along.

[gelda]

Humans eh!

[tali1]

It seems cows are the animal that need a human hand up their rear during birth