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”
Ah, poor Boo. Dogs are funny things. I hope he heals quickly.
Sometimes someone else cooking dinner, at the pub, seems like the best idea ever, and pizza can be very therapeutic 🙂 Love that Boo has a ruse for dealing with vet visits, clever boy. Adding positive thoughts to Kate’s!
Poor Boo. Glad he feels better already. Some calves which are big boned get stuck being born and oxygen deprivation can cause a bit of brain damage, I had one like that last year, over the years a few, mostly they come through in a few days but goodness me they are time consuming! Do you have one of those five teat buckets? They really save time feeding the calves that are sucking well. I can feed ten calves in fifteen minutes all washed up and done! These – http://www.milkbar.co.nz/products/milkbarportablefeeders.aspx
Wish i could get those here – I have thought of it.. but no-one seems to use them here.. maybe I will have to bring one back from NZ next time!.. c
Cecilia: Looked the calf feeding pails up on Goggle and came up with a New York company that makes something similar, looks like it hangs on the fence. Try http://www.jdjsolutions.com under Products go to Peach Teats. They must have distributors that would sell you one.
Wonderful – thank you! I will have a look! c
I sympathise with Boo’s aversion to sitting on the floor at the vet’s – yuck! Heal well and quickly, dear boy!
I hope Boo heals fully and quickly, Miss C.
Molly sits on a chair at the vet just like that. So much like proper people. Molly had such a rough time and was so injured when rescued, she somehow knows the vet is there to make her better, but you can still see her fear and search for reassurance in your face. I usually end up putting a hand/hug on her if I can. Dogs are so remarkable in their understanding. Paw waves and feel better, Boo!
Got a smile at all of you off to the pub. Well done and well deserved!
Love that Boo dog! He looks like a good patient until you tell the story. Glad the 2nd picture was posted. Hope he gets better soon …along with Difficult.
Poor, brave Boo! Trying so hard…”Nothing to see here! Just a fellow in a chair in a waiting room. Move along, please!”
The Boo photo is hilarious and I hope he has a quick recovery. We don’t want to be worrying about him.
Trust Boo to act more human than dog once again!! Great photo to hold and keep . . . Am grinning at you wearing a white skirt for farmy tasks: must need an awful lot of bleach once it reaches the washing machine . . . and love you using the word ‘pub’: surely that is not part of the usual Prairies parlance 🙂 !!
I have three white skirts, old beach skirts, comfy and yup I just bleach them, or not.. but I am a skirt girl I don’t do shorts.. c
Laughter: and I don’t wear skirts at al! Was known around Sydney for three decades for wearing a male ‘dinner suit’ to all formal ‘do’s, shiny stripe down the side of the trousers and all!! SO damn feminine!!!! But shorts: no – my having put on a pound or two sitting behind the computer doesn’t allow it in the first place!! Have a good night all of you . . .
I love Boo’s trying to look like a human so maybe the vet won’t do anything to him. Such good news to hear he is already getting better on the antibiotics. Difficult looks like she might have a significant health issue causing her eating difficulties. I hope she can overcome whatever the issue is & start gaining weight to match her height. Pizza & beer is sometimes necessary when everyone at the farmy is extra busy. We may be doing the same thing for dinner tonight as it was already over 100 degrees today & 104 is predicted for tomorrow, I do not enjoy this prolonged heat & the fan just blows hot air around, I am envious of people who have AC. It used to be rare that we would get many 90+ day in the Summer, but now we are breaking the records for number of 90+ days. There is such fear of more wild fires with the ongoing drought making everything tinder dry. It looks like the heat wave is headed your way, Hope all the animals stay near their fans. I feel sorry for Shelia and Poppy w/ all those babies to feed. The heat must be hard on the chickens & other birds. Life can be so fragile at times. Please take care of yourselves as you have so much work to do in the coming heat – Drink lots of H2O!
We have the fans going already.. I do hope we do not get your heat wave.. ah well.. Difficult drunk her whole bottle tonight. It took a while but she stuck at it.. I really think she had never been fed.. but tonight she was up first for her drink.. c
Yay! Good for her!
I love that Boo photo – hope he’s better soon.
Glad Boo is on the mend. He looks so grown up sitting on the big chair. Kind of like a king on his throne. Maybe he’s hoping the vet won’t realize he is the patient and skip to another.
Chin up and best of luck to little Miss Diff—she couldn’t’ve landed in a more provident spot than in Miss C’s capable, caring hands. And please give poor Boo a chuck under the chin and a good scratch behind the ears from me, for encouragement.
xo,
K
What about Boo! Sorry to hear the lad has such a bad infection. Thank goodness his Mum is on to it!