My new favorite song is 'I Will Follow You into The Dark' by Death Cab for Cutie. Now normally, I don't listen to Death Cab but I heard this song on the radio and I absolutly love it!
So my dog destroyed my TV. Well, its not destroyed but the case on the outside is cracked. I had my little video game plugged in and the cord was on the floor. Normally, Riley is okay and just steps over it but she was in one of her crazy moods and was running laps around the apartment. She got tangled in the cord and pulled the whole thing over onto the floor. I was mad.
So school is going okay I suppose. Its alot of information all of the time making reviewing it and keeping up to date very hard. Next week, two quizzes (Wednesday and Thursday) and one test (Friday). Tonight, probably not going to do anything-going to Glenn's to play games for a while. I figure that school's just started and I haven't seen Glenn in a while anyway. Joe might visit this weekend!
Details about my long weekend-Friday, Tiffany told me that a mutual friend was coming into town and they were going to Cody's and would I like to join them. Of course! And then I found out that I had to check on the cow which limited my beer consumption. Two beers later I rode the mechanical bull. I didn't fall off and I think if I got a lot of practice as in had a mechanical bull in my living room, I think I could be really, really good. I left early and went and checked the cow. No babies.
The next day, they were going back to Cody's with Tiffany's boyfriend, Steve in tow. I joined them again and we left at 1. I went to the farm and the cow didn't have her baby. I needed to check the pasture though. As soon as I went into the barn I thought I heard a calf bawl. Sure enough there was a cow licking a very small calf. I got some bedding set up for the calf and carried it to the mat barn with the cow following. I chose not the put the calf on the study because it was so small and esp. after I found out that it was two months premature! I took care of the cow and was getting ready to put the calf in the calf office where it was heated ( I had even considered taking it home), when the calf died. I tried everything to revive it but to no avail. Then I checked the pasture again finding a group of four cows off to the side. I thought they were stupid heifers but when I got close, 45 (Irene) mooed and tossed her head at me. They were surrounding a calf!
To be continued...
Continuation...
Somehow, I had to get this calf and her mother from the far reaches of the pasture to the barn. The pasture was too muddy to take a truck out to the pasture so I got a calf cart. The calf cart has bicycle tire and thus is not suited for off road work. Eventually, after much struggle and being threatened by the entire dry cow herd, I got the calf up to the barn. However, all the cows followed me and the calf EXCEPT the cows mother who I had to go back and herd up. All the cows kept following me around. Irene was crazy because she knew I had the calf. Since I didn't know when this calf was born I couldn't use her on the study either. I worked up the cow but decided as long as the milkers saved the colustrum the calf could wait to be fed. Joe texted me on my way home and I sent him one back to call me. We talked and I went to bed around 6am.
Sunday-I still needed to go out and check on the one cow left to calve. If she had a heifer we were done with the study. I woke up at 12:30am (Monday-so much for a good night sleep for the first day of class) and went to the farm. What did I find? The cow had calved but had twin heifers! So I worked up the cow and the calves and after much struggle got blood from one to use on the study. I stayed around and fed them both, checked the cows and went home around 4am to catch a few hours rest.
Since the original morning entry, I have gone to anatomy lab and body clipped our dissection pony. He looks good for some bizarre pony show....
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on January 14, 2011.]
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