New poddies

by **Becca** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:21 pm

I went and did 1/2 a days work on a property last Sunday, not only did they give me a full days wages & 70L of diesel but I got given two braford heifers as well!
So meet Rose:

And Jilly:

by **Cindy_Lou** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:36 am

they are so cute!!

by **horseNaround** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:14 am

Aww, they are so cute!

by **Darkriderz** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:52 pm

You musta done a pretty good days work then. They look lovely

by **Dustee** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:44 pm

Bargain, they must have loved ya Becca! :bonza:

by **Suzie Q** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:54 am

OMG I would work for them anytime.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S.

Even better if you have a lactating cow you can put them on so as it doesn't cost you much to feed them.

by **kyella** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:21 pm

oh wow what a score Becs

they are adorable !

by **Becca** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:56 pm

Well the girls are doing great! Eating a ton of feed though!! I am going to get a roundbale for them tomorrow so that will cut my feed bill back a bit.
The people who gave them to me rang me this arvy and asked if I wanted another baby... it took me a minute to work out they meant poddy not child

So I now have Sam, a lovely little a bull about 3 days old, no idea why he wouldn't suck off his mother but he loves the bottle. He is sick but I think it's just a cold from lack of nutrition and he is happily curled up under the house with a dog rug on tonight

Will take a pic of him tomorrow.

by **Becca** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:27 pm

Poor little Sam had to be PTS this arvy :wah:

I noticed a bit of milk coming out his nose while drinking this morning and had a feel in his mouth to discover a huge hole in the roof. Emailed the vet a photo but they said there was nowhere near enough tissue to sew it up and the kindest thing would be to put him down

Once the decision had been made I decided to get it over and done with as soon as possible and I got a friend to do it for me because I couldn't! Am pretty sad tonight...
I'll put up a photo in case anyone is interested in having a sticky - you'll probably have to click on it really see it.

by **Suzie Q** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:52 am

How sad. Now we need a photo of the roof of the mouth from the healthy calves to compare to. I presume no red at all.

If you get a calf in the future. If they are at all sick you need to needle them. (Antibiotics I think).

A healthy calf lies curled up. A sick calf lies flat out.

I made a little video once. It is very short for dial uppers, but I listed all the things on there for healthy and non healthy.

http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/S ... hycalf.flv

Here is the other one I made if you are interested. Just pretend that my hand is your hand.

http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b30/S ... lfout1.flv

by **Becca** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:06 am

Yeah, it would be good to have another photo - but the pink skin that is on the outer edges of his palate should cover all of his palate and you definately should not be able to see his nasal cavity.
I gave him a penicillan (sp?) shot when I got him incase he had a chest infection, I've saved calves with pestivirus, akabane & dcs before so I do know the importance of penicillan.

by **Suzie Q** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:51 am

Yes with your experience I know you know more than me. I more put that up for other people reading the thread.

by **Becca** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:03 am

Suzie Q wrote:Yes with your experience I know you know more than me.

I didn't mean that SQ - and you do a lot of research on animal health!

by **Suzie Q** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:26 am

Yes but unfortunately I found that one out first hand. :x:

by **Dustee** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:41 am

Holy crap thats one big hole! Theres a name for the condition but I cant for the life of me think of it? :scratch:

by **Becca** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:19 pm

Cleft palate Dustee

by **Dustee** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:06 pm

Thats it!

by **Cindy_Lou** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:11 am

I am so sorry Becca :-(

How are the two girls doing?

by **Becca** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 1:10 pm

The girls are doing great... it's raining atm but will have to take a new pic when it's nice and sunny

by **horseNaround** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:05 am

Sorry to hear about Sam.

Good to hear the girls are doing great.

by **Rabbit** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:33 pm

My sympathies Becca

I used to breed colourpoint cats (a long time ago) & I remember having a kitten with a cleft palate. Only one in the litter. Just awful..... I do feel for you.
The symptoms were similar.....milk would come from the nose & not go down the throat.

Luckily with humans, it can be repaired.

by **jode** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:38 pm

very sad about your calf Becca

they gave you the helfers cos they are braford PMSL (joke)

by **Becca** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:08 pm

Must take a new piccy of the girls today - not that they've changed much...
I'm guessing you don't like Brafords Jode??

I'm not a huge fan but they're a stud and actually have the nicest brafords I've worked with - these girls aren't a great example as they haven't had milk since they were little.

by **jode** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:46 pm

no it was just a joke , my OH's father used to have herefords & then bought brahmans so had a lot of brahfords when i first came here ;-)

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