In for coffee

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