Dead calf and a coo doon...
Posted: Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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This morning we woke up to find a dead calf which is always a major bummer. And poor mummy moo, a bonnie red coo, is boggling her head off and trying to find her calf. It was premature - we aren't supposed to be getting calves just yet. It's always awful when something dies on the farm. Farmers come across as hardened uncaring souls - but they are big softies!! They are affected by dead animals just as much as anyone else.
And another coo, a bonnie black lass, has some kind of trapped nerve (the calf in her belly is probably on the nerve) so she's down with partially paralized hindquarters. Wur cousin is coming doon with his bucket loader so that he and Erlend can move the coo to a deeply bedded pen. Hopefully poor madam moo will be ok.
Well, Cuz is here with the bucket loader. I hope they can get the poor lass moved without incident. Sometimes coos decided not to play along and even the simplest task can turn into a three-ring circus act!!!!!
Posted on Things Go Moo in the Night... at 08:54
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