wbvs58
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Last weeks Country Life had front page headlines to the effect "Relief In Sight" with regards to that last cyclone. They sure got Foot In The Mouth Disease. Poor Jilleroo has gone to ground and I don't blame her. I would have a lot of trouble talking about it.
The two forecasters in The Land this week are being a little optimistic. The long range reckons that everything should be in favour of a bit of rain however it is the large high out in the Tasman sea ridging up the coast that is blocking any weather. He does say though that it is rare for the highs to persist out there getting into February. The other bloke who looks at isobars is talking about a monsoon trough coming down from the north through the centre and picking up with a trough coming from the south and dropping a bit of rain out in the western areas. We can just sit back and hope.
Things have dried out here again but the grass is not as burnt off as it was after Xmas and I feel if we got some rain it would respond better.
I had the cows in this week and branded a few calves that I will be selling at the end of March. I also preg tested all the cows bar about 4 late ones and all seem to be well in calf. One of my good cows I was worried about as I am always seeing the bull calves lined up to mount her although the bull is not interested in her. She was well in calf and most likely to the insemination.
Oh and I forgot to mention that on Wednesday arvo I ran over my little foxy Jamie. The rear wheel of the Mahindra went right over her abdomin. I sort of felt a crunchy small bump and didn't think much then I thought maybe the cows that were in the paddock had dug up the track. I looked behind in rear view and could see Jamie way back and she seemed to be moving about so went on back to the house to feed them and she was missing. I thought oh sheet and went back down the track and she wasn't there, then over in the next paddock I saw her cowering in the grass. She seemed basically intact except when I picked her up she was grossly swollen in the lower rear abdomin. The pressure of the wheel had just popped her belly and torn the muscle and now the intestines were just under the skin.
I took her into my friend Kirstin and we got a catheter into her and fluids and some Methadone. Remarkably there does not seem to be anything else broken, the pelvis and ribs and back are all intact.
Thursday arvo we got to operate. I let Kirstin do it, I supervised. These sort of injuries are often unrepairable as by the nature of it the muscle gets torn off their attachments to the pubic bone and leaves nothing to reattach. The muscle is usually shredded. Fortunately for Jamie the muscle tear was mostly longitudinally and only a little off the pelvis so we got reasonably good reattachment and repair.
She has made good recovery although not moving much and as you could imagine massive bruising and tissue damage. Today just after lunch she took her first piece of food and has been eating pretty good, just little pieces of chicken etc frequently.
Hopefully all will be OK but I am very cautious because the nature of the accident, I can't believe that there is not more damage.
Ken
The two forecasters in The Land this week are being a little optimistic. The long range reckons that everything should be in favour of a bit of rain however it is the large high out in the Tasman sea ridging up the coast that is blocking any weather. He does say though that it is rare for the highs to persist out there getting into February. The other bloke who looks at isobars is talking about a monsoon trough coming down from the north through the centre and picking up with a trough coming from the south and dropping a bit of rain out in the western areas. We can just sit back and hope.
Things have dried out here again but the grass is not as burnt off as it was after Xmas and I feel if we got some rain it would respond better.
I had the cows in this week and branded a few calves that I will be selling at the end of March. I also preg tested all the cows bar about 4 late ones and all seem to be well in calf. One of my good cows I was worried about as I am always seeing the bull calves lined up to mount her although the bull is not interested in her. She was well in calf and most likely to the insemination.
Oh and I forgot to mention that on Wednesday arvo I ran over my little foxy Jamie. The rear wheel of the Mahindra went right over her abdomin. I sort of felt a crunchy small bump and didn't think much then I thought maybe the cows that were in the paddock had dug up the track. I looked behind in rear view and could see Jamie way back and she seemed to be moving about so went on back to the house to feed them and she was missing. I thought oh sheet and went back down the track and she wasn't there, then over in the next paddock I saw her cowering in the grass. She seemed basically intact except when I picked her up she was grossly swollen in the lower rear abdomin. The pressure of the wheel had just popped her belly and torn the muscle and now the intestines were just under the skin.
I took her into my friend Kirstin and we got a catheter into her and fluids and some Methadone. Remarkably there does not seem to be anything else broken, the pelvis and ribs and back are all intact.
Thursday arvo we got to operate. I let Kirstin do it, I supervised. These sort of injuries are often unrepairable as by the nature of it the muscle gets torn off their attachments to the pubic bone and leaves nothing to reattach. The muscle is usually shredded. Fortunately for Jamie the muscle tear was mostly longitudinally and only a little off the pelvis so we got reasonably good reattachment and repair.
She has made good recovery although not moving much and as you could imagine massive bruising and tissue damage. Today just after lunch she took her first piece of food and has been eating pretty good, just little pieces of chicken etc frequently.
Hopefully all will be OK but I am very cautious because the nature of the accident, I can't believe that there is not more damage.
Ken
