I can't imagine how you feel. I spent a week feeling like that breathing wise when I had a reaction to some vitamins. It was miserable and so hard to take care of the ranch. Will keep praying for you.
Are you milking the jersey or just leaving the 1 calf with her and she's ok with just the 1?
The jersey is doing all right with just the 1 calf... but she has been curtailed a bit on her water due to this weather and my hauling water... I drained her with the cannula's a couple times... she could use a second calf but is doing okay so far... I also cut her grain way back, although she is getting silage when DS brings the silage cart to the pasture... and she has hay but it is not alfalfa so not like it is "high protein" to push production. Have seen some "loose" manure, but the calf runs around and acts great so not worried about that...
Just another reason that she is such a good deal for me... she has been very adaptable... Bless her heart.
Decided to go on and call her Peaches, since she has been such a peach with doing things... Her front foot is sore, that is the one that she had the abcess, and this hard ground is not helping her...
Tomorrow I have got to get the steer in the head catch/chute to give him a shot,,, he is 2 days overdue... may have to extend the length of treatment... but he looks okay although still limping... it is still draining and that is good... better than closing up and not draining.
Hauled water to snyder's , and it was all I could do to carry the buckets from the bathtub here in the house, out to the truck to take up there. Got it poured into the tub and both she and the steer drank and there was some left when they both quit. Hoping that they can drink some more before it freezes... I put it inside the barn door that i have been leaving shut to stop some of the wind, so she did not have to come out and around on the hard and slick snow/ground.
They finished the silage in the tubs from when he brought it up the other day. Yesterday, I had taken the "coating of snow/ice" off the top of the 2 tubs left outside, she had finished the one DS had put in the barn on Sat afternoon.... put them both in the barn yesterday and they were empty today... DS brought up the silage cart yesterday when he came to get me unstuck... so I will put them back in the cart tomorrow, so he can take them back to the barn to load them up again for her for his next trip up there... either tomorrow or Thursday.
DS did get the trough opened up... he went down the neighbor's driveway, it is along the fence at the bottom of the hill, near the trough, and went across the fence and got it opened up and there were a bunch drinking... so that was good... Better than sliding down the hill in the ice covered snow that is like concrete...
DS has water at the barn... the hair dryer angled down the one pipe there, plus the heater he had under the tarps to heat the air somewhat... finally got it thawed and it started pumping. So no more hoses from the neighbor... it has been near midnight the last 3 nights running water to them and then DRAINING and rolling up the hoses. He is exhausted... He will have to check the water troughs to make sure the "balls" that seal them, are not frozen solid... and that the cows can push them down... but there is water...
Grants, "behind my house" has a spring that they piped into a developed trough, instead of it running down through in a little creek... it is staying wide open, not a bit of ice... because it is a fast running spring... thank God for small favors. Wish the spring/water trough at snyder's was that fast but it is not...
DS fed hay at grants, they had cleaned up their silage cart and 2 rolls in less than 48 hours... unbelievable the way they are eating in this cold...
So, that is today's accomplishments...
