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The Lord is my Shepard

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Michael Soldan

05-04-2006 19:10:26

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Welp, I've always believed it and it must rub off on you when you believe, I've been struggling with a newborn calf for over seven days now and no matter I just have to go and check her at night after supper, a twenty minute drive but I just feel obligated. I've needled her four times now, and pail fed her several, Saturday morning I thought she was dead in the pen, well tonight the calf was up and sucking on her own and responsive to the moma. I had a nice chat with the vet today and he told me to hit her with "Oxyvet", 5 cc's so at noon I did and I think her breathing has improved in those 6 hours, we are guessing a pneumonia type sickness that sapped her energy so she couldn't feed and that weakened her all the more..morning , noon and night I was there, checked her through the day several times but I just couldn't give up on her and I think I am winning as of tonight, so as I care for the calf as a good shepard I'm comforted knowing I am in the same care, I do love working with my cattle and I don't very often lose one, have learned a lot and have a lot to learn, but one thing in my mind, this is a miracle calf, neighbour can't believe it survived what it did ,and all you cattlemen out there bless you as you go about your business.....Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Bob/wis

05-06-2006 04:18:24

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Re: The Lord is my Shepard in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-04-2006 19:10:26

Sounds like the calf is going in th eright direction. You done a great job. I am just a small dairy farmer in wisconsin. Most of our cows calf in the winter time. So, that is a hard time of year to raise calves in a barn. SInce the end of nov. I had 43 calves to raise. Had 1 challenge me of the bunch. She had pneumonia. I do not know if it was the fever she had or the amount of drugs she got , but she lost half her hair the ordeal. SHe is doing great now. She is a white parks cross. At night her fever was so bad you could see her skin was bright red. Persitance is the thing when treating calves. Last year it took the vets along time to come up with a cure for a problem we had. We lost 17 calves before they told us we had cryptosordia. Since then we have lost no claves . I did have 2 born dead. I have used about eveything there is for cattle and then some. I am 33 and been full time farming with the famliy since about 15 or so. There is days I want to walk away. But, then there is days I am amazed at how things turn out.
I just consider myself a dirt farmer. Scrapping a little life out of this earth just to get by. I am never going to get rich. Just get by is all.
Time to milk.
Later Bob

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John A.

05-04-2006 20:52:14

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Re: The Lord is my Shepard in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-04-2006 19:10:26

Michael, Livestock is a preculiaar thing to me. A Moma cow will 'head hunt' you in a pen, and truly try to hurt you.So that you are ready to Kill her right NOW But...let this ol sow get hung up in a half dried up stock pond and be half buried up in mud or snake bit, or hurt really badly. You will move all of Earth and half of Heaven to help her.
Or Doctor a 4wt yearling calf fresh off a Semi after 14 hrs of riding from some salebarn, Shippin Feaver is rageing in its body and you are so flustrated for everything you are doing isn't working. You are mad, crying trying to keep him/her mad enought to keep fighting for its life.
Or let that littl Momma, What is a family pet give birth to a Stillborn and that will reduce a grown man to a half crying kid again for you can't help that Mama at this juncture in its life.
That is just some of the emotions of an Farmer/Rancher life.
Welcome to the club Mike,For Me it is all said in the First paragrath of the FFA Creed.....
I belive in the future of farming, in a faith born not of words, But of Deeds. Achievements won by present and past generations of agriculturealist, through the belife of better days, through better ways, and even as the better thing we now enjoy, have come through the struggles of former years. I belive to live and work on a farm is rewarding and chalanging, and even in days of discouragement I can not deny!
Hope that calf continues to improve, there will be others! tht may not do so well.
Later,
John A.

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Broomstacker

05-04-2006 22:21:04

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Re: The Lord is my Shepard in reply to John A., 05-04-2006 20:52:14

Good job, Michael! Best of luck to that young"un. The critter had the sense to be born on the right farm!

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BigMarv1085

05-05-2006 11:23:07

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Re: The Lord is my Shepard in reply to Broomstacker, 05-04-2006 22:21:04

I was missing a cow about a year ago and couldn't find. Finally sotted her stuck in mud behind a beaver dam. Me and my father inlaw drug this cow a 100 yards with ropeschains and cables. Washed off alot of the mud, fed, and watered her for a day. Finally got her standing and now she is a pest.

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