Neighboring Farm Calls Us for Help! (A Calf in Crisis)

All right, so we just got a phone call From my neighbor who is a califormer. He's got cows. I don't say he's a califormer But he's got a good many cows across the street. Y'all seen brooke go over there And see his cows feed his cows or give them treats uh, they got the three donkeys that she likes to go over there and talk to and Especially the ones that's her and mary carl named snow white when we first came over when we first moved here and But long story short Uh, he called brooke He is under the weather. He's not feeling well And he said that he has a calf That's in trouble. Um The mama abandoned it and apparently another cow or another mom Took it under its wing and she I take that back. I'm, sorry. I messed that up the mother cow passed away The original mama cow passed away and then another cow came in And started taking care of it and now she's abandoning it But he doesn't know how long all he knows is is the calf is not doing well at all And so yeah, we're gonna go we're gonna go check it out. See if there's anything we can do I don't know how bad the situation is uh, but uh Fix a load up the side by side and go across street and see what um Um, see what's going on Okay, I see a cow down there Oh There's something over there where you see it black on the ground, okay Where's the calf snow white All right. So the little the little fellow's not doing well at all Let's see here That's probably better the other way bro, because did not turn around backwards All right, baby, let me see we can get you home ready You want to put him in the back i'm gonna call for that will it take you about a second to put him in the back ready Yeah, got it. I got it not hurting your arm. Is it i'm okay? You got it don't try to slide him don't try to slide him i'm gonna go around okay and i'm gonna get in okay hold it Okay Then we ought to send out the vietnamese All right, he's he's warm just go through this few boxes if you can remember how to get back out Grab this You got it All right, so he is not doing good at all just not um Yeah So would you get me that um, what do you call it? Okay Okay pedia like first we got milk replacer and we got some goat colostrum We're gonna have to read about that and We're going to contact dr. D as well. Let's see We can tell he's severely dehydrated I got the drench guns. I got electrolytes in her. You may get them or she's bringing some She has not he has not had diarrhea. Oh, yeah He has not had diarrhea Well, that's good I you can tell he's dehydrated though Did he say if she he had colostrum or not That's true. That's true. So he's had colostrum No diarrhea, okay So can we go to the Oborn and get the resorb or you know, it's for cows. I don't know if that's gonna help. Okay i'm going to Send dr. D a text and see if he can tell us some advice over texting Right here Thank you, katherine He made a couple of noises since he's been feel that is that too warm the heat's on me that feels pretty good That's kind of he's gonna make somebody some grunting noises since he's been under the heat we can do it together We're just gonna try to get him hydrated Hold on. Let me get the flashlight Look at you Big man Yeah Hey, baby It's just i'm just so weak. He's weak Come on, big man Come on Here we go, he's swallowing oh He smells horrible. That's not me. It's okay It's probably me. Well I smelled it sooner than we put him in. It's okay. He's swallowing. He is swallowing. He's thirsty poor baby Yeah His mama died his mama died and another mom had taken him up and then she left him for another calf Baby, I wish this so wouldn't you think he got colostrum? I don't know All right, buddy Come on, did dr. Lee say he's coming back? He hasn't answered me yet, but right now he's just He's down. Yeah, he's down. He's definitely but he's better than he was Yeah Better than you were but he ain't good He ain't good He's been breathing. Yeah I can see his eyes moving one time. He got to breathing pretty hard when When he started getting warmed up some but there you go swallowing. Yeah, there you go, baby how many nights i've stayed awake with deer just stimulating Slept in the floor with them. Oh my goodness. It happens. That was the best one. Yes, it was You All right, so we are loading up about to load up this fella and take him to Dr. D And hopefully we can beat the rain. It's not a good day to be having An animal problem. Oh, it's not at all and i'll just go on and tell you It's not and he may not make it. He may not and if he doesn't make it at least At least he can go peacefully inside the barn covered up by a heater Instead of outside in the stormy weather and if he doesn't make it it's not because we didn't try right It's not because mr. Butch didn't try right? Um, and it's not because dr. D didn't try that's right Hey, buddy Okay, that's okay Hey, buddy. Hey sweet boy. Don't try to get you fixed up buddy. This is the best i've seen Yeah, yes, sir All right, so we got him loaded and we're headed on out Okay All right, so we're leaving uh, dr. D's and Um, he's the baby calf is in bad shape as you guys know. Um He did respond well to The ivs he gave him three bags of ivs. He gave him antibiotics. He gave him steroids sugar sugar Um, so he's he's giving him everything he can And basically it's a waiting game And if he makes it through the night And he looks like he has improved Then tomorrow then dr. D's gonna give him some more fluids Yes, we will bring him back in the morning if he has improved but he has to show us that You know that this is working, right? you know Things are going for the good not for the bad, right? Yeah, um, yeah, so It's gonna be there's no way to know which way it's gonna go. No way to know. He is fighting He's really really fighting It's just that dr. D thinks he is septic And that he's got some infection and don't think he got colostrum so A lot of negatives working against it is a lot of negatives working against him But at this point colostrum would do him no good right he's um We know he was born on tuesday. Yes, and today is saturday, right? So, you know Not gonna help at this point milk replacement will help right he gets to the point where he can suckle but he's not there he's not there and If he is better tomorrow and he's holding his head up and showing signs of improvement If he doesn't want to suckle with the milk replacer so just to get something on his stomach, yes His gut is moving. We know that and he did urinate. Yeah, he did. So, uh, we know that his organs are working. Yep Which to me was a really good sign And he's trying to move now when we first brought him in there. He wasn't moving at all. But once he got about that Second bag in he's trying to hold his head up. He was trying to move his legs So, uh in his eyes got way brighter Um, so he's definitely definitely improving that doesn't mean he's gonna make it through the night by all means but he did respond well to the The medical cocktail, I guess you could call it that. Dr. D gave him. So So we're headed home. We're gonna get him back in the stall. We're gonna put the heat the heater on him and um Pray and hope for the best in the morning Well, y'all it is the it is the next morning, uh, we watched him throughout the night Oh, y'all know we did have the the bad storms come through the area through the whole southeast but um, he was inside by heater warm, but he did pass away this morning, so um, you know, we hate to We hate to make videos like this and you know, I almost I almost Didn't post this video. I didn't Because you know, we're always about Happy and making people smile and don't want to make anybody sad by all means but then I thought you know, we we're we're transparent we try to show you guys everything that happens on our farm and um you know, I have peace with myself that He was inside the barn warm had a heater on him and You know that He did go peacefully and was not out in the weather or anything like that and that um that does put me at peace and but um anyways uh, I do hate to to to let you guys know that he did pass away and um just um There was a reason why we got the phone call And that we were able to find him and help him and do everything. We did there were there was a reason and in And and I know that is That he was able to come in the barn where it was dry warm had a heater on him and that that um you know that he didn't stay out in that terrible weather last night and And struggle through all that. So Anyways, you know Yeah, I hate I hate to make videos like this. I really do but I just thought you guys Should know what happened and you know, we're gonna continue Continue to be a light in this world and try our best to to do what we do here on our farm