Farm life continues here.  I was able to start tomato seeds in the greenhouse finally as it warmed a little as well as plant peas and radishes in the garden.  Wally is supervising this.

Here is the bull calf yesterday morning.  He is a cutey.  He should be named tomorrow by the grandkids.  He developed scours so we had another emergency run to the feed store to get electrolyte solution which he has been taking well, in addition to the colostrum for the first 24 hour and then milk replacer.  He has been acting fine so that is good.

But we did notice yesterday that Summer, his mother, was getting engorged.  We didn’t want her to get mastitis so we risked ourselves to milk her again.  We got some nice milk from her.

But then Tom had the idea of building a stanchion for her so she, us and the calf could stay safe in this process.  He was looking at the llama stanchion which in the past we thought was unusable for this purpose.  But Tom moved it into the barn and worked on repurposing it into a cow sanction.

Meanwhile I moved the younger sheared sheep out of the barn onto the pasture.  They seem to like it.

This morning we got Summer into the stanchion which went fairly well.

Then we got the calf to nurse on her.  He was able to empty two teats but unable to do the other side.  Tom milked it, filtered and fed it to the calf in a bottle.  So pretty much a complete success.

We will keep this up and hopefully the calf will be able to nurse without the need for the stanchion.  The scours are getting better too.  So things are looking up.