Living on a farm is hard. We raise beef cattle and my DH takes them to the auction market to sell. I have only went with him a few times. Once I had bottle fed a baby calf after the mother passed away giving birth. I was so attached to that baby and he was attached to me.
I had to go with my husband to the market because that 6 month old bull would only follow me. Naive as I am after we unloaded him, I made the comment that I hoped he had a good life with whoever bought him.
I wish my husband had lied to me but he told me he would be going to a buyer who just raises the babies to later slaughter
I never went to the market with him again after that and cried all the way home.
Even though we raise beef cattle we have never slaughtered one for our own use. Neither me or my husband could eat something we had raised from the day it was born.
I hope the little calf is ok, but my husband said if he was stepped on and paralyzed there wasn't much hope for him.