Of coos and calves - and adopted calves!
Posted: Friday, 16 March 2007 |
We had two dead calves today - twins out of Coo #75. She's the tamest coo on the farm and will come up to you in the field and bonk you with her head to make you scratch her!
Erlend had to help her calve because she was getting nowhere. The first calf came out dead. The second was also dead. The calving had taken too long and the calves didn't make it. Another sad fact of nature.
However this story has a happy ending!
Coo #76 is still doon with something wrong with her back. She has no milk and her calf is being fed on artificial milk which is not as good as real milk.
So we took Calf #76 and rubbed him down with the birth fluids from Coo #75. While Erlend calved the second dead calf I kept the adoptee calf in the Coo's line of vision. Sure enough she started to make Mummy Coo noises at the calf! She started to get more and more demanding and we saw that she really wanted him! "Give me that calf! I want that calf!!"
While I held the calf near the coo Erlend and Geordie snuck the twa dead calves away. Coo #75 was near desparate to get to the calf at this point!!
We stuck him in the Um Box and let Coo #75 loose. She ran over to the box and after a few sniffs she immediately started to lick him and talk at him in that special mummy-moo language they use on their calves. It's a match made in heaven!
Comments
Why don't you combine your blogs and give others a taste of the limelight. It stands to reason that the home page only features three blogs why should two of them be yours?
Disgruntled from Brue
Disgruntled – It’s a feature of our system that blogs are listed in chronological order, regardless of the number of recent posts. I’m aware that this is an area that requires attention. But please don’t point the finger at Things Go Moo…. She can’t be blamed just because she chooses to blog at a time of day when others aren’t doing so.
Anne from IBHQ
How humiliating. I never thought of it as "the limelight." I always surf the "see all blogs" section to see who has posted in the past several days - a much more accurate thing then the feature page.
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney
Hi Michelle - sorry new blogger - where do you find the "see all blogs" bit? We have something that goes MOO in the night!! Its a 4 month newfie pup and he was very surprised when he heard this loud Moo and had no idea that it came from him!! I have not come across one that moo'd at such a young age - they're normally about 2 year old, and thats if they moo at all!!
newfies of quarff from Mainland Shetland
Hello Newfies! My grandmother came from Newfoundland!! So I'm 1/4 Newfie hehehe! "How be ya?" To find the list of most recent posts go to that main page where three blogs are featured and there is always a picture from that week's "featured blog." look over to the right where you will see a lighter colored area. There will be a title: "More..." Under this is: "View all blogs" click on that and it will take you to a page that lists all blogs that have made posts in order according to date. This is the BEST way to haunt the active blogs!!
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney
Have found the view all blogs bit!! How is the adopted calf doing? Enjoy all your pics
newfies of quarff from mainland shetland
I've been to Newfoundland a couple of times - St John's to be precise. Couldn't believe how friendly everyone was! :)
Anne from IBHQ
Canadians are both very friendly and extremely polite. Americans are equally friendly (I think), but nowhere as polite (as a rule).
mjc from NM,USA
I'd love to go to Newfoundland. I went to Canada as a teenager - my Dad was Canadian. A lovely country. Thanks for all the blogs help Michelle. He who goes Moo in the night is a poorly pup and our old goldie is not good so we are thinking we should have moved to Scalloway instead next door to the vets as we spend so much time there just now.
Newfies of Quarff from Mainland Shetland
So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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