Vet Sees Baby Calf's Leg For The 1st Time, & It's Not What He Expected

I tend to agree that something stepped on the knee and it did kind of Good morning y'all. How y'all doing today? Hope you guys are having a wonderful wonderful day I'm gonna tell you my day ain't started out too good You ever? Had the water hose on you got your little spray nozzle and you cut it off And you drop it and for some reason it hits just right And cuts that spray nozzle back on. Yeah, y'all look at this Look here Got me good this morning It got me good this morning And it's it's cool. So It sure got me kick-started this morning. I can tell you all that. All right, holly. Come on load up Come on, load up Load up. Good girl Good girl Dr. D is supposed to come this afternoon or this evening to give Motilda a once over. All right, holly Ready to go help me unload this truck We got a few things we got to unload this morning We're out of some stuff. What my girl? Headed to the barn to unload the truck got a few items that from town yesterday that we needed Shavings meaning one. We were completely out of shavings and since we got motilda or we like to call her now motilda And pocket in the stalls, uh, we're cleaning those every day getting their Getting their manure out and Replacing with fresh shavings and so we had ran out of shavings. Haven't we girl? I see mama on the tractor bright and early this morning I say bright. It ain't bright this morning. Is it girl? It's not bright at all Not bright at all and dusty Dusty dusty she got she's got dd with her on that tractor Goodness gracious, I see dd she needs a sweater A lot of times She won't get out the truck She thinks we're still going somewhere. So she will not get out the truck It is still dusty so let me tell y'all it was A pretty good chance of rain leading up to yesterday Guess what? We didn't get a drop Not one drop. There was a line of rain yesterday that was from Tennessee all the way down to south louisiana. It was headed straight here And we didn't get a drop. I don't know what happened because I hadn't looked But obviously it disappeared because we did not get a daggum drop of rain Let me grab the wheelbarrow so I can carry more than one Motilda Hey, baby girl. I see mama's done cleaning your stall out this morning Yeah she has guess what dr. D's coming to check you out and look at your leg and he also says he's going to Give you a vitamin shot And he's going to give you a calf dewormer That's what he said he said he wants to be sure that's what he's gonna do this today And don't worry about the shot. He's real good at giving shots. So don't don't worry about that at all main thing is we want him to check your leg out and See if or if there's anything we can do for it. Okay You're going out there and get you some hay this morning. Yeah, go get you some hay this morning Go get you some hay Speaking of hay, that's where mama's gone brook She's gone to go I see peaches kicking peaches. What are you doing? I want peaches that was pocket pockets dust bathing. What's going on girl? Hey pookie I saw you dust bathing I did You doing okay this morning? Good deal. I'm gonna clean your stall out. We got some shaving so we'll be good to go. But speaking of hay Guess who needs some hay this morning? These three right here Good morning, guys Thank y'all for not Throwing the uh trough up this morning. I appreciate that. I say y'all we know who the culprit is Big daddy back there standing back there Mama's gonna go get y'all some hay So we have realized that they're going through hay a lot faster than we thought and so We are definitely gonna have to Get some more hay For the guys hey peach, I thought that was thought she was out girl peach is still eating this morning Sorry, baby girl. I thought you were done I thought she was done pocket Good morning, mama silky and your baby's there Everybody's doing well Look look She went on out moved to the winnow out. She listened to me winnow out went on out and was out there Getting her some hay this morning And brook has got this I wonder where she wants this i'm just gonna set it down right there As y'all can see She's still in the truck We're not going anywhere today, baby No, we're not going anywhere today She definitely thinks we're going somewhere, but we are not going anywhere today hollywood man Now fifi's in heat y'all watched brooks video yesterday capri was in heat Now fifi's over there at the fence yelling at them boys And we're not gonna breed either one of them. Of course Fifi is retired. We're not bringing her at all Now I better not try I thought i'd make a stack another one up on here, but I better not I don't think that's that's gonna work All right, pookie. I know you're gonna need some baby. So we're gonna put some over here I'm gonna put some on motilda's side We started y'all know that in the last video. We said that uh, or brook said that she wanted to call her motilda And then you know Me being the dad and i'm full of dad jokes Motilda popped in my head and it's kind of stuck or at least for me it has I don't know if brook is still calling her that or not, but I'm still calling her Motilda y'all it's one of those days where the temperature shows it's like 50 in the low 50s But it feels way colder than what it is I know the humidity's high The wind's blowing and there's no sunshine Oh Some of y'all well, I know not everybody watches our live streams And we mentioned it in the last two and I haven't mentioned it in our videos And Out here loading this stuff up made me think about it. Uh, our main man caden our Little helper that's been helping us out here on the farm well He had a motorcycle accident. Well, he broke his foot And broke it pretty good. I think it's way worse than what they originally thought and he is um he's gonna have At least one surgery, but there looks like possibly multiple surgeries on his foot so Caden is out of commission for a while and y'all keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers because he's uh He's been beating himself up over it pretty good, but What's up, jesse? What you doing this morning? Huh? What you doing jesse? I'm gonna tell y'all Keeping the barn clean is just about a full-time job I'm talking about Full-time job. I know sometimes I get beat up in the comments about the barn And we do do the best we can But i'm telling y'all it is Just about a full-time job And then taking care of the animals I know we do get some people to say you know you just Are you show us the animals something to do with animals and That takes up the majority. I say the majority I say that that's not true. It doesn't take up the majority of the day but animal care here is I would say on a average day animal care is roughly about three hours And depending on what we got to do more than that, but on average three hours a day at least At least three hours a day So, you know, that's why the majority of our videos are the animals of course but You know i've kind of decided here lately You know just to show y'all Try to show y'all everything like sweeping the barn Getting shavings out unloading feed going to get hay stocking hay um, I mean that's That's what we do here It's not always glamorous or dramatic or fun or You know what? I mean now we could You know, we could kind of make up Drama, I guess but That's just not us. That's just not how we roll over here on our farm You know what you see is what you get. It's not always glamorous always glamorous But it's what we love to do And if you love it, guess what? It doesn't feel like a job at all Sure, no I will say this about mutilda She's out there eating. Hey, she is a lot more comfortable She doesn't When the first few days we got her she kind of stayed around here and try to stay inside Especially if we were over here, she'd stay inside this stall As long as we were here and Of course she would move a lot um, she's still moving but it's uh It's nothing like it was you can tell she's just a lot more comfortable here and uh Since transitioning her to her new feed We've had zero scours zero issues which is always a concern when you You know introduce a new feed to an animal And we definitely don't want that Scours can lead to dehydration, which isn't great I hear brook around there Go help her. We're gonna get you buddy We're gonna get you now. See her there eating. Hey with the donkeys It's just perfect. That's exactly what we want right there I hear you tater I hear you tater bug What you doing girl? tater Tater, how you doing? What you doing this morning? Thought you'd come see me Yeah I thought you'd come see me girl. Come in come see me They see the brook on that tractor with that hay bale They ain't interested in me Not at all Ready We're gonna let y'all back out babies I'm, not quite for sure how many bales we've used up. I know we've used two out of the barn and maybe three From underneath the shed over there That makes five. I'll double check with brook on that. All right, you guys ready? You guys ready? All right, come on Come on Come and get it Y'all know that is the first time That all three of them Have came out running like that for hay Usually it's just moody and mildred and Tater bug and just kind of sat back but Not this morning Y'all looking beautiful as ever You sure? I do want to say this. I do appreciate y'all being sweet to motilda. I do I really do proud of y'all I am i'm also hoping that uh, dr. D can uh can look at motilda probably look at her teeth And give us an idea about how old she really is All right, pookie. Let's get you cleaned up girl All right peaches is peaches is through. I hear you girl Peaches is through I don't know if mama's giving you any hay or not. I don't want to give you too much Mama's getting your hay Mama is getting your hay And i'm gonna get you number two out. How about that? With a little horse you sure do go a lot You got the good end of the deal Yeah She could carry less what i'm doing She's definitely Interested in you You barely oh she ain't missing my peaches Peach has gone back to bed and I don't blame her. It's cold All right, you just informed me that I was totally wrong About the hay Um, I said I just told everybody that I think it was five bales Oh, I didn't know where you were going with this and you just told me that it's seven We've used seven bales already seven bales. We have nine bales left and we bought 16. I got you So, uh, yeah, it's good. They're going through it quite quickly. Yeah, it's faster than what we anticipated So I at least want to get four more bales because you anticipate the cows are going to use four months one a week Yeah, right. Yeah, and we need january february and probably march. That's 12. Yeah Goats are once every two weeks. So that's three. Yeah, that would be 15 At least four more at least four more maybe more. Hey biscuit. Hey girl. Hey Tell everybody good morning. There you go. She's got a little hay on her nose. She does I need to be down in the hay. It is cold this morning. It is cold this morning. Yeah All right one more thing One more thing that We need to do holly while we're waiting on the Dr. D to come is it hey We need to go look at that cabbage because I think it's time to harvest it. You know what I mean? I think it's time to harvest it. So let's go look at that cabbage And harvest it because mama is wanting to do something with it And it's not freeze drying I almost forgot to drop something off Almost forgot it I saw it as I was Backing up We gotta do some maintenance around here the side-by-side and the tractor needs the oil change and filter changes and Almost lift him in the truck. All right I'm, just gonna set you guys down right here Gotta keep everything in tip-top shape I'm, not gonna do that today though It's not quite time, but it was getting close And I thought i'm gonna do both of them at the same time Did I shut that door holly? I did Yeah, i'm gonna Gonna take care of both the side-by-side and mama's tractor at the same time Right girl Let's go pick some cabbage Cabbage here's the thing about cabbage is that Most of it's gonna be ready all at the same time so if you plant 20 heads of cabbage Gotta have something to do with 20 heads of cabbage. So you you have to be prepared It's not like you can go out there and just pick one and be done with it, right? You got to have uh Plans for it. So our plan is to eat some of it for sure And then brooke wants to try her hand at sauerkraut. So that is our plan to do with our cabbage this year, which was very successful and Something that I have never been able to grow until this year cabbage and cauliflower both Now we did harvest the cauliflower the other day and if you missed it, uh, we did freeze dry that on brooks video But had a successful cauliflower harvest this fall and Cabbage two things that I have never been able to grow I don't know what it is. If you ever garden you will truly find that there are certain things that You're great at growing and certain things. You're not good at growing. It's just it's just the way it is What are some things out there that uh, you struggle growing That maybe your neighbor can grow or everybody says it's easy to grow but you just never been able to cabbage and cauliflower have been a couple of my weaknesses. All right, so My plan of action is I got all the big leaves off the cabbage Cutting the roots off of it. I'm not going to wash it If you're not going to eat a vegetable, this is a tip that i've mentioned several times before in the past But if you're not going to eat it right then Don't wash it Because that will help protect it and keep it from spoiling as fast So always remember that you can put it in a bag or do whatever but don't wash it until you're ready to eat it Um, I got the roots cut off. We're going to throw that all in the compost pile But in the meantime, like I said earlier, we're going to ferment this and make some sauerkraut out of a lot of it But uh, I am kind of excited because I actually love Sauerkraut, I like sauerkraut. All right, let's get these in the fridge. Hey guys, what y'all doing babies? What y'all doing? How's everybody doing? Hey pierce. Hey girl What's going on big top? Look at you laying like that with your leg all kicked out brother Huh, what you call that? What you call that buddy Hey, baby girl, how you doing? How you doing? How you doing baby? Yeah Mr. Dr. D is gonna come see you today. Yeah, he is He is can you believe the sun's out now? Thank goodness That old gloomy cloudy stuff Makes you want to go blah, you know what I mean? Yeah He's gonna look at you See what we can do, okay In the meantime, you keep chewing that cud girl Enjoy this sunshine except you're in the shade They done got them belly full of hay Hadn't they? Look at them out there except moody's moody's getting him something to drink Two ladies over here though Mildred your back leg looks like topper He teach you that? Did you teach him that? I see Mildred over there imitating your brother. Yeah, I do Oh, let's get this thrown away The wind may done blown that Into somebody's pasture that we don't need it in I gotta show y'all this so you see beautiful pocket right here Just eating a little bit of hay But look right here beside her Look at there Y'all see that snout That snout right there That's her bff right there Oh peaches in pocket All right, y'all Dr. D Will be here Shortly, so i'm gonna go ahead and get to the barn and meet him there No Pretty sunset tonight y'all it's too cloudy I just saw miss motilda right there Hey girl, dr. D's on the way Dr. D She's pretty fast Yeah, she's already in here Hey girl Hey Yeah, all right y'all there's the sunset. We got a little bit of A little bit of cloud breakage over there Let me see that beautiful sunset this evening All right, I gotta get pockets water in there for her I get in trouble See how much bigger this one is Yeah I tend to agree that something stepped on the knee And it did kind of fuse together and now the issue is the knee won't bend properly to Allow that leg to extend nothing's going to fix the knee Tendon a little bit and release some tension That it would help her straighten her leg With the knee still as it's staying as it is. All right, y'all dr. D is gone We got good news and bad news with motilda good news is she is she's well, she's she's well She seems very healthy to him He thinks she's roughly about five months old by looking at her teeth She's eating. Well, he did deworm her and he did give her a vitamin shot the bad news I say bad news. It's just the legs worse than what he thought Uh, you know, we have sent him a video of her Before we got her and the leg is is worse than what he thought He um, he has some ideas. He has some options that he wants to to do there with the leg But he wants to think about it. He didn't want to do it tonight but he wants to think about it and Go that route. It's just kind of a wait and see game. He says that no matter what we do Uh to her leg it's going to get worse before it gets better if that makes sense so if we He does something too. He's probably gonna have to wrap it up And let it heal and hopefully heal a different way Than what it is now He's talking about doing something with the tendons So it's just kind of a wait and see game, but he wants to wait he wants to think about it I don't know if he's going to talk to some other people about it. I'm not quite for sure exactly what his big game plan is but That's what's going on with miss motilda other than that. She's really really really healthy now He has the same concern as us and that is once she gets bigger How is all this going to work if we cannot help that one leg? some kind of way So that's that's still the concern but we do have some options and We're just kind of going to just kind of go From there now. He thinks she's not going to get near as big as moody, which is which is good He also thinks that we should keep her out of the cow pasture for a while Just just her size She doesn't she's not very mobile like the cows are Uh, she's probably gonna get pushed around. He doesn't want to make things worse So in the meantime, she's just gonna hang out with the goats He even thought maybe putting her with pocket and peaches if he wanted to but she's doing well with the goats right now Plus with the goats, you know, we got a round bell hayling hay in there so she can eat As much hay as she wants like a cow normally would now he did tell us that she's probably not going to eat hay like these guys because for age he said that usually smaller calves are not going to be big hay eaters like they are when they get bigger so That made us feel a little bit better because there's been times where she just sits in the stall or whatever And doesn't care much about the hay or the grass which these guys over here, you know eat 24 7 it seems like so That did make us feel better there, but he said that's totally totally normal So that's what's going on right there. He is going to come back. Uh, he wants to vaccinate all the cows Um, I don't know if that included her or not. I have to ask him that Um, but he knows he knows He knows what to do what she needs to what needs to be done at five months of age. Hey, buddy You out for tonight? You like sleeping on the on the bus All right, so I showed y'all showed y'all the sunset but wait till y'all see the The moon it is absolutely gorgeous