Since we had pulled a calf Sunday, I had done the barn laundry and put on clean clothes. Then yesterday I was cleaning the poop that Draper keeps generating, out of the barn when Joe came up and said we needed to get a calf with scours to the barn and a heifer that was having trouble calving to the barn. We picked up the calf first and tubed it with some electrolytes then went get the heifer up.
It was a little bit of a hike but she came on with no trouble. The problem came with pulling the calf. It was coming with just the head and the front legs folded under. I got the legs up and out with the chains on and everything was lined up to come out, but things were tight. Joe worked the jack and we almost didn't get it out. But leverage prevailed. Unfortunately, it was dead. It was dead before we started working on her.
It was also big, maybe close to 100 pounds. We had a month old calf on a cow Joe is going to sell. So he skinned the dead calf and put the hide on the month old calf.
One trip to the chute to get the calf to nurse and by morning she was taking the calf.
Meanwhile, the scouring calf wasn't getting any better. I started an IV and gave her two liters of fluids before she got up and pulled out the catheter.
We tubed her with some milk last night and this morning Joe carried her out to take her back to the cow.
She was bawling for her.
She is not out of the woods yet, but she was back to nursing anyway. Now I have more laundry to do.
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