Been busy on the farm and with the moving from old homeplace these weeks too. Last night, we ate supper at 10 pm because we had to fish a little newborn muddy cold calf out of the pond's edge. It was abut 5 :30 , I rode in the sled to keep it in , after,, even though it was tied, flopped out 2 times. The 4 whlr pulled the sled about a mile through the pasture to the truck because I left the Roxor there after using it's winch rope to make a steady anchor for us and we got the calf out. Brought it to the house's outdoor heated water faucet and washed it off. Dried it with towels and a hairdryer at the barn, gave it a colostrum bottle and then took it back to it's mama in a pasture down the road a mile... she butted it .. brought it back to the barn ... made it a hay bed and then we came home to warm up and eat. Went and got the mama up this morning and bought her to the barn, put in the chute and got the baby to nurse in the chute but she tried to knock it around... Hormones are messed up so will work on that. then... theres a total of 5 calves at the barn needing extra bottles because of twins, orphans etc...
Well, the Roxor did it again. 4wd low speed 1st gear, made moving the twins born today possible. The Roxor pulls nice and slow in this speed and kept the mama's interest in keeping up without getting out of breath. These boys were born in the same pasture as the mud baby but thankfully were born on dry land. We just put them in the sled and moved them right along. They did have to be hog tied to keep them from flopping out though. You can see the bil riding in the background - He kept the other cows out of the way and guided her if she wondered off . My sister drove the Roxor and I sort of hung on to the passenger's seat /Roxor's edge to jump out when necessary . ( only needed to once though) Later we took turns drying them off from the birth process and fed them a bottle mix of colosterex . Expensive stuff but makes a big difference on the calf's health down the line. They calves will nurse her in the morning { within the delicate time frame for the benefits of a mother's own colostrum to be beneficial. ) , Thank God we got home by 8 tonight. The three of us make a good team. 
