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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Wow, there is more do do in the winter, for a cattle farmer, than watching 
the woodstove.  That was a great story, Lynn.  Like Bev, I would like to see 
a youtube of such.  stay warm..................

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--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:


> 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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