Category: Farming
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Prone Cats and Sleeping Calves
John has so much work now that he is working six days a week, leaving at 4 in the morning and not getting home until after seven. Lady Astor and I wait for him. John has an habitual cough and when she hears him cough, as he walks from his truck to the barn after pulling…
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Still alive
Against all the odds, and rattling like an old train when he drinks (antibiotics are not helping him – they seldom do help such young bony animals) The Little Bobby is still alive. Yesterday afternoon I shifted him into the small pen close by my bedroom window and gave him small sips of colostrum (I have jars…
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The Woods
OK. It has been a rough 36 hours. Or how many hours? Since Saturday morning anyway. It feels like a week. We are not out of the woods yet but I do see the light a little. The calf scours have not got the better of us yet. I have three calves looking quite good- still not…
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Scours in Calves
By late morning yesterday four of the five calves were scouring. Diarrhea. Bad. All except Difficult. Here is what I know. Any loss of fluids needs to be replaced very fast or a small newly born animal like these calves will die. The scouring needs to be attended to immediately. If caught early and I…
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Bye Bye Amanda
While Godot watches over Mrs Flowers as she sits on her eggs. Mr Flowers swans about the garden eating zucchini flowers or sleeping on the front door step watching us through the window. He is a magnificent bird. And so tame. Amanda drives home to Texas today and her car bears the marks of frequent…
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