When you add another code to your day. (I added five calves and 50 meat chickens). One needs to add more time! The time is added at the beginning and ending of each day.
So we are in the flux stage, the reshuffle. Then yesterday we had to add a trip to the vet for Boo. He has a staph infection in his foot, up his leg and into his mouth. He is terrified of the vet and refuses to sit like a dog on the floor when he visits. He sit on the chair next to me and stares straight ahead. There is no talking him out of this.
Until the vet comes into the room and then Boo slinks right off his chair, slides under the chairs and comes to rest under where I am sitting.
He is on massive doses of antibiotics and already doing better.
The Vet said with the humid wet summer we have been having he has seen a few of these cases in dogs.
Plus we had another 100 bales of straw to stack into the barn before it rained. We ran right out of cooking time so we all trolled off to the pub and had pizza and beer for dinner. Sometimes this is the only way. 
Here is a Miss C shot for you. The calves are still doing well except for the tall skinny one. She is called Difficult. We are getting the required amount of fluids down her throat but she has an odd sucking motion and gets tired fast. So she is drinking tiny bits often and I think she was better this morning.
This is the only shot we got yesterday evening from Amanda’s phone. Today I will do better. We are dripping wet from rain in the night and sopping wet from the humidity!
We were running yesterday. Tomoyo has taken over the meat chickens and the corn stalk chopping which taken a lot of the work off me. (The sweetcorn and the stalks are fed to all the animals, though Manu is still in training!)
But today will settle down a bit as these things do and by tomorrow we will have adjusted the schedule and we will be trucking along.
I am inside for my coffee now, still in my nightie with yoga pants on underneath as I was over feeding the calves at 5.30 this morning and am still going!
Do you want to see sorry Boo again?He does make me laugh. No-where else does he sit on a chair!
I am going to zoom out and help Tomoyo shift the chicken caravan (she is a tiny wee thing) then breakfast and coffee and a shower then we will start with the list!
I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
65 responses to “In for coffee”
I am gathering up all the creatures in need of care into my head and will send out strong thoughts to the universe. Which sounds all sort of wafty and alternative, which I am not, but I am a great believer in the power of positive intentions in making things happen. So, healing for Boo, health for Difficult, strength for all the very young in their first precarious days, and above all, Time for Miss C. I shall sleep on it. Night night, Farmy.
OH and I have had a magnificent parcel in the post! – email to follow .. c
I echo Kate’s positive thoughts.
Oh good, it got there safely! I had visions of a mangled piece of wreckage turning up and you wondering what on earth I’d sent.
Oh No.. it is brilliant a total piece of home. Such beautiful work – but the mail is SO LONG this way.. c
Awww, poor baby. Please don’t tell him but sitting up on the chair as he was made me laugh out loud also; that is hilarious. Am so glad he is feeling better today. A staff infection is not a laughing matter.
And, as someone else mentioned the glory that farm life must be if you can wear a white skirt, had me wondering too — who would have thunk it!
Yes, your schedule seems to have grown in leaps and bounds with the feeding of calves multiple times a day. Hope you can keep up and get all the list completed without too much delay. Have a great day! ~ Mame 🙂
oh, baby boo….. yes, the vet is scarey and I don’t blame you for sitting in your chair.
Sad news, our very close friend is putting her A. Shepard down today. She is 17 and looks very much like our sweet Boo of the blog. Hug and pet your pups today in her honor.
Ah, sweet Boo. Be well soon. xx
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That is a dog after my own heart. I behave the same way in the doctor’s waiting room. Poor thing. The calves are beautiful. And so are your girlish knees! ; )
ha ha ha .. straight to heaven you go – Girlish Knees!
Here’s to a better feeling Boo, calves who grow and thrive and figure out proper food rituals, moderate temps, and well organized schedules that allow for good, home-cooked meals and bits of wind-down quiet time. Best wishes Miss C, for a lighter load ahead.
At least these high pressure times have an end in sight.. nothing lasts too long.. c
Look at your lovely little legs! And poor Boo 😦 mine both sit on my lap together (which is a bit of a lapful) when we go to the vet. Has the calf that has problems drinking perhaps got a deformity in her mouth or tongue which prevents her from sucking properly? Just a thought.
She sucks well for a while.. Once she iis stronger I am considering getting her to drink out of the bucket, i don’t like to do that too early as a rule but this may be better for her.. Mostly I think she was a pulled calf, she is a twin, probably little or no colostrum, the mother may have died, who knows – weak..she does drink though, just little bits at a time! but never say never to me – I will keep working with her.. !
You will never give up on an animal if there’s a chance and that’s why we love you!
Give Boo a get well kiss and hug from me.
I am tired just reading of your schedule – what a good job it is that you have some help.
Hoping your (and our) rain stops.
Love,
ViVx
Ahh poor boo hope he gets better soon. And I hope the little calf perks up x
awww Boo is so adorable- good to hear he’s doing better. Sure wish the rains would stop for you! Take care.
Darling smart Boo. I feel the same way in going to the doctor. This infection is nothing to mess with so it is good you took him and please keep us posted on his progress.
Boo looks like a perfect angel sitting on that chair like butter would not melt in his mouth!
You write before coffee. You amaze me. How do you do it?!
Is the poor-feeder an animal for fattening? Can the vet show you how to tube-feed?
Poor Boo! He looks like such a gentleman. I hope he heals quickly!
She is for fattening yes and she is eating just VERY slowly and her enthusiasm diminishes as she goes along – personally I think she is just learning How.. c
Poor girl!
Thank God you caught Boo’s infection in time. How did you know he was sick? (I’m just back from our cat vet myself this morning.) I’m a regular there. So is my cat. Oh I hope the little calves do well, especially the weak one. They’re in the right farmy though!
He was licking the site and his foot was swollen – yes we are on a first name basis with our vet too!
Boo: be still my heart. You must get better.