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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Bev; I'm still here. One of my young cows had a calf on Saturday. It's a 
small, first-time mother, and the calf was small (40-50 pounds). I don't 
know if it was premature, or just small, but it was weak and within 2 hours, 
it look dead. I could only tell that it was alive because it's leg was 
twitching. We brought it in and put it in the bathtub with very warm water 
and rubbed it for about an hour. By then it would weakly suck on our 
fingers, so I gave it a bottle of milk replacer, egg, and molasses. It spent 
the afternoon on a beanbag chair in front of the woodstove.

When it was completely dry, we took it out and lured the mother into a box 
stall in the barn, and locked them in together. We got it a good drink off 
it's mother (who, fortunately, has good mothering instincts...first-timers 
sometimes don't, especially when you've taken the calf away).

It drinks on it's own now, and has been getting stronger and stronger, and 
this afternoon it escaped from the box stall and was wandering around the 
barn. When they are strong enough to get into mischief, you know they'll 
probably make it. It really cold and very windy here (-20 to -30 degree wind 
chill tonight), so I plan to keep them locked up until it warms up on 
Wednesday. That's been my life lately.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: [Homestead] ???


> Is there some reason that this list is dead?
> I don't know that I buy the weather excuse or the 'busy time of year'
> excuse because we are all in different locations.  I might be busy, but
> someone else might be snowed in.  This is an international list. It
> might be winter here and summer there.  What gives?
>
> It seems like 75% of all the recent posts I have made have gone into
> cyberspace...I've tried to start conversations here, yet only a few
> people actually talk.  It is no fun when you are on a group for social
> reasons and there is only a few people who talk.  Let's crank it up.
> I've wondered if people are having trouble posting again.
> Perhaps another homestead type list is more engaging right now?
>
> Bev
> --
> I am having an out-of-money experience.
> http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
> EarthNSky Farm, Northwest Georgia, USA
>
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