Friday, May 8, 2009

The daily grind

This will be short and sweet. No ranting today.
COWS: We had a beautiful heifer calf born on the farm today. Mother and child are doing well. The little girl was pretty wobbly on her legs until she got 2 quarts of warm colostrum in her belly. We had a beautiful white cow die. We called the vet when we saw that she needed more help than we could give her. The vet thinks that it was hemoragic bowel syndrom, they basically bleed to death internally. It was very sad, she was seven months pregnant.
HORSES: Our daughter, Sondra, has 8 horses. She thinks that the one is going to have a baby. The mother is a registered paint, and the father is a registered quarter horse. I will post pictures when the baby is born. There is nothing cuter than a baby horse.
GOATS: Another daughter, Victoria, has three nubian goats. Two does and a buck. They are all registered. The one goat Isabelle is going to have babies. A nubian doe can have up to 4 babies. But the first pregnancy they usually don't have any more than two.
DOGS: Our farm dog Camille had a litter of puppies two months ago. They are ready to be adopted. They are so adorable. They are Choc. lab/border collies. The one must have more Choc. lab, because she loves the water.
PIG: Did you notice that there is no plural on that animal. Our daughter, Sabrina, has a pet pig. No it isn't one of those cute little pigs that people keep in their home. No this is one of the biggest pigs I have ever seen. There are estimates at close to 1000 lbs. Her name is Tilly. Tilly's left front foot is bothering her. We will have to find someone that knows about pigs.

That is all for now. Our daughter, Larissa is headed back to D.C. after a visit home and I have to get up early to get her on the bus.

Did you write your Congressman today?

1 comment:

  1. Yes ,I did write my Congressman . We are frinds with G.T. Thompson. I wrote him a letter the other week . He called me the other night to see if he could read it at an Agriculture hearing. I just hope they listened to my plea for a decent milk price , not the insulting price we are getting right now.

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