Posted by Allan In NE on February 18, 2010 at 17:38:41 from (148.66.88.254):
So,
It's snowing here (what else is new?) and I'm feeding cattle this morning.
On my second trip from the hay yard I notice the horses are really interested in something way out in the middle of the neighbor's stubble field. Can't really make it out, but there is for sure something 'moving' out there; maybe a deer or coyote?
Get my chores all done, jump in the pickup and run out there to see what is going on. It's a new baby calf! Just a couple of hours old and just about frozen to death. I load it up and bring it back to the barn to get it warmed up. Darned thing is just about dead.
Check all my cows; all in and nobody looks like she's just had a calf or even acting like it.
Call the neighbor and ask if he's got a cow without a calf. He said he'd check and see. He calls back later and says no, not mine.
So, I go to town and buy some milk replacer and a nurse bottle. Roar out to the farm and get a couple of quarts down the little guy to try and keep him alive. It was a rodeo there for awhile, but it wasn't long before I was his best friend. :>)
Anyway, I then check all the cows again for about the 12th time. I see one eating that has some 'pink' colored mucous hangin' out of 'er. Hmmmmmmm
Run 'er in the barn with that calf and they seem to get along just fine. Just don't know if they are realated or not. Have to watch and see if that calf sucks in the morning, I guess.
How in the heck did that calf get clear out there in the middle of that field? Cows don't jump out and then jump back in the fence.
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