Friday, April 17, 2009

little eddie




I think we are going to call him eddie - if I had a word for "little shit' he would be called that. He has been real hard work to keep him alive but I must say I have enjoyed it albeit exhausting. The night he was was born was all good. But we woke to a very weak and dehydrated calf. We rtried to put him on mum and she kept walking away. Eventually we put them in the cattle crush area and I milked mum and sryinged into baby every hour all day - OMG was I exhausted. went to bed at 8pm and woke at 7am to find eddie latched onto mum - yippee - my hard worked paid off. Not sure if he is out of woods yet as mum does not have alot of milk but hopefully that will get better.
He is so cute and the advantage of that process is that he is good to go and pat and mum lets us so the kids are loving it.




1 comment:

  1. Oh wow little Eddie is gorgeous.. hope being grandparents and aunties is going well for you all..... hee heee heee... sooooo wish we had got there to meet your first grandchild... maybe when you get back - have a fabulous time and love to you all xxxx

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