Recent content by LizHartley1991

Mira was finally moved with the heard but I’m worried she was introduced too late... She’s being picked on. Not extremely but she is getting shoved around. She was used to having her own watering hole and I happened to look down and see her go for the water troth, only to get slammed aside -...

The experienced farmer is gonna help me tag her soon so that’s good! I was able to get a tag from Orscheln and customize it with my name and phone number and address Incase she wanders off or off the farm lol. I’ll try to post a picture for those asking. It’s hard to get this website to...

Need to call upon you kind folks for a question again! So Mira has been deamed okay by a vet and an experienced farmer, to be let into the cow lot. Unfortunately before either left, I forgot to ask a question I had and they’re hard to get ahold of... So! Help? I want to get Mira’s Ear tagged...

This was the most readily available product around my parts so Absorbine UltraShield it was. I didn’t do the sponge thing though and I think I’ll do that. She wasn’t happy with me on spraying her like you said! But I had to try. Live and learn lol.

Been awhile so I felt like updating you all. Again, I treat this as a log for myself that’ll hopefully help others. So I started a new job working the night shift and I had to leave Mira’s care to the farm hand until I got adjusted and didn’t wanna pass out every hour.... Yeah well my farm...

Mira’s eyesight is pretty much half bar. She’s not blind but she does have very poor vision to the point she even ran into my dad on the tractor. So we’ve opted to keep her up in the lot until she’s ready to be sold since she’d probably break her leg if we let her in the fields. Or she could be...

I had never even heard of it before. My last calf I bottle raised went off to the pasture without getting the shot. Hell I’ve never seen any of ours get shots for it... That’s Wild. But after looking it up and reading about it, it’s like you said - pretty quick and nasty.

Update 2: Mira got three shots. One for pink eye, penicillin, and a shot for black leg (he insisted on the black leg shot because of her age otherwise I don’t see the purpose of it). She is not happy right now. Heavy breathing, hiding away, and slight foaming at the mouth with spit. She’s...

Update: Vet is going to come take a look at her today. I’ll update you all what he says. On a funny note, I had to get a new halter for Mira since the old one is broken. She’s not a fan. She keeps trying to chew it off and tugging at it. Poor thing. I feel mean because she knows that means she...

Nah. We only call up the vet to look over them if we see extreme trouble like a pink eye infestation or the works. We’ve always been more of a let nature run the race with the cattle. That’s how my grandmother ran it with my grandpa and their family before it. Since I’m taking over soon -...

I don’t know if any of you are still out there, but I figured I’d update you on some things. As of April 27th, Mira is five months. She’s huge now and comes up to eye level with my chin almost (I’m only 5’4/5’5) and she’s grazing grass, eats two full dog bowls (that hold a gallon of water) of...

Mira will be 5 Months at the end of April. I have her now down to one bottle a day. She is very moo mad with me on that but I am working her down. By May she should be more adjusted and by the end of May she’ll be 6 Months and I’ll be cutting her down to 1 quart then eventually letting her loose...

Mira is doing good y’all. She’s four months old today and getting big. Though she’s still small compared to the other calves her age. She now comes to me when I click my tongue, which is something I do with my dog. It’s pretty funny. She also has started giving “kisses”. I had to pick up stuff...

I would love to but no I can’t. Not at the moment :/

Update, I have to pretend to eat the pellets. She was eating them fine before. Now she just stares at them until I reach down to pick some up and “eat” it. I can’t walk away either. I have to stand by her for at least ten minutes now. My cow daughter is spoiled or something lol