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Some days on the Farm are sad. Final Baby Girl story.
Warning…..this is not a happy, feel good post. For all of you that haven been following Baby Girl, you can read about her here, I have sad news. We went to feed her the other day and found her dead. My Farmer and I are both very sad about it. We both had become very attached to her, even though she was becoming quite a nuisance. We wonder what the cause of her death was and if there was something we could have done. She had so many problems through out her short life. We are guessing that she must have had more problems then we knew about. That’s the…
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Meet Baby Girl
Meet Baby Girl. Or as my son has named her, One Eyed Betty. Here’s her story. One early morning in July, my Farmer was out changing irrigation pipe in the pasture and came across a new born calf. No momma cow around anywhere. My Farmer wondered if maybe it was a twin and the momma had walked away with the other calf, forgetting about this one. Whatever the reason might have been, we needed to make sure this calf had something to eat, so he called me and asked me to bring out a bottle of colostrum. A baby calf has to have colostrum within 24 hours or so of…
