Back to tube feeding Holly...just can not get enough down her and she is looking sad.

Called the vet about her hard left rear quarter. She has no fever, no clotting or blood in milk, and no heat on the area...just a hard orange size knot. Vet said to keep working with it and no antibiotics. Thats good due to long milk withdrawel time.

Holly is still not eating well. It takes two of us to force feed her with the bottle and we don't usually get mre than a half of a quart at a time.

Memorial Day, Monday 25th

Went out to the beeyard to check the status of our 5 hives. The 3 hives on the west end of the yard were totally empty. No bees and no bee husks. Very minimal wax moth which was interesting. There was a mouse nest in the furthest west hive which indicates that it was probably empty going into winter. The frames were completely empty so I guess they were starved out and had emptied the honey, unless the bees left and robber bees cleaned out the frames. Starvation would be surprising because I left a full super of honey on each hive....but it was a much longer and colder winter than usual. It's a shame because I had buckets of corn syrup to feed with, but I just didn't get it out there. I've got to check on them more frequently. The two remaining hives are strong, especially the multistoried one. I put a honey super on each and will go out and check again in two weeks. The Indian Blanket is going strong and we are still getting rain, so we should have a great honey flow.

Holly and Hope wouldn't eat any dinner...hopefully too full from lunch. Hazel took two bottles. Need to dose Hope with mineral oil. Will stop cutting milk with water when Holly is completely up to par. I am getting eaten alive by mosquitos tonight!

Taped up other quarters so Abby would suck out bad quarter...heard that was good for mastisis. Still bad tonight so milked out, used Today on bad, taped other three and separated from calf. Will let calf suck out bad in morning then remedicate and separate.

Holly got the scours from the other two and is still recovering. She is a tepid eater and prefers a bucket. She is much improved.

Hazel was the tiniest but has been the spunkiest all along. She continues to drink from a bottle very well and thrive.

Hazel

Hope is doing great, maybe a tad too much pepto but she is taking 2 quart bottles twice a day and knocking you over to get it. She thinks that vigorously licking your knee makes breakfast come faster.

Cinnamon and Nora got 2 cc CDT and .5 cc ivermectin

Disbudded and 1.5 ml tetanus antitoxin for May and Mary today. May is cute as ever...poor Mary had one ear decide to stand up but not the other. Started them up on grain today.

Dosed this evening with Today. She has hard hot rear quarter. Se has had for two days and I dosed previously with Tomorrow per vet's orders but with no results.

Te is last to shed out but its no wonder since we are still in the low 50s at night. The flies were giving him heck poor thing. I sprayed and wormed all three of them.

Spuds is doing well. I picked his feet and no fot thank goodness after weeks of flooding and mud.

Hickory is looking good. Zero grain just pasture.

Both Hazel and Hope sucked from a bottle good this morning. Holly is taking less from a bucket and very slowly. Holly still doesnt feel good but other two do. Hazel and Holly still scouring. Hope may have had too much pepto.

Wormed 3 geldings today

10:30pm Feeding

Tiny downed 1.5 quarts.

Spots wouldn't suck at all. We poured another .5 -.75 quarts down her throat.

Jersey/Holstein got tubed again and we fed her about 80 oz.

I've got to think of some nice names because I don't want these labels to stick! I am keeping my fingers crossed that no one dies in the night. New babies are always so worrisome. I think if we can make the next 24 hours we'll be good.

Feeding new calves

6:30pm Feeding

Tiny Jersey girl was the best. She could suck from a bottle without much help. She drank about .5 quart.

Spotted Jersey girl wouldn't suck at all. I patiently poured .25 quarts down her throat. She is up and around and acting okay. Both she and Tiny were on a nurse cow before.

Jersey/Holstein girl wouldn't suck either. I poured .5 quart down her throat. I thought she was just exhausted but she is acting kind of funny. She rolled her eyes back and went totally limp while she was asleep. I thought she was dying, and picked her up and took several minutes to shake her back to alert. Paul was arriving home at the time, so we tubed fed her and she seemed to recover a lot.

Got 2 jersey x heifers from guy in greenville. estimate 3 weeks old. no extra teats.

Got lucky at the sale today and found a healthy jersey holstein cross at a good price...and she is uber cute too.

World record Anabel...calf still on fulltime too...because of sping grass maybe?

We now officially live down in the bayou...and more rains coming

New milk cart

We have gotten so much rain that I am growing wheat in the bed of my pickup

Abby (Jersey Dexter cross heifer age 5 weeks and on momma fulltime) and her new friend Suzette (Jersey heifer age 4 months and weaned)

Breakfast with Suzette and Abby