Had a calf die overnight..... :(

[cow whisperer]

No sign he was even sick until Wednesday evening! We did all we could, but sometime between 9:30PM last night & 6:30 this morning he died..... DH is thinking pnemonia (sp?)...... I am doing an every 2 hour check of the barn today..... Making everyone get up, check over each one.... feel their ears, look at their eyes..... etc......

I just feel so bad for this little guy..... I know, I know it happens.....

[Haggis]

Sorry to hear of your loss.

We have been keeping a close watch on our wee heifer Mary, born just two days hence, to see if she is nursing, but until just moments ago I had not seen her do so. It is just miserably cold in the wind and not much better in the barn, but she is doing just fine. We were trying to get her to take a bottle to make certain she was eating, but she was refusing all attempts (other than a first feeding just after birth) so we were alarmed; we needn't have been, all is well. Mary knows where all teats are located, and how to use them.