Friday August 5,2011

Friday August 5,2011

This was a fairly easy day for me. Hubby had to do some running around to go get feed but it was nice not to have to go hassle the heat right after breakfast.
   After he got back with the feed and unloaded he had to step in and tell me we had a problem. Your alarm button inside instantly goes off.... He said we had a dead cow on Grandmas by the pond next to the road. We just fed everything the day before and checked everything good. Everyone was there and eating well. So I got in Ol' Blue and  we went down to the shop to get a log chain. Can't just leave the cow there. Not only is it embarrassing it is also drawing natures clean up crew to the watering hole where the cows need to hang out. Besides that the neighbors dog was there helping with the clean up and I promise you if we left it there they would be putting on the doggie perfume in a few days and that is not a good thing. WHEW! That can stink! We got over to Grandmas and was thanking goodness Heidi didn't go. Not only was it too hot since it was about 1p. she thinks smelly dead things are the next best thing to indoor plumbing. LOL Hubby got out and grabbed the chain almost dropping it instantly it was so hot. We took the cow off to a far pasture that is out of the way from everything and if the cleanup crew show up it shouldn't bother anything. That chain was amazingly hot every time he had to handle it. We got to looking at our sale list for this fall and sure enough she was on it. I have been wanting to get her moved from there for a long while now because I noticed she was loosing weight and being bumped out of the feeding line. It was just too hot to handle the cows. To hot and hard on us and to hot and stressful for the cows. You just can't win. It doesn't do any good trying to help something if you or them keel over from the heat. There is no good time when it is cooler. Early morning is almost 90 * late night last night was 99*F at 9:30. Hubby said sometime during the day it registered 115*F in the shade on our East porch. Like I said ........... any little weakness in this heat is  like  a major handicap no matter if you have 2 or 4 legs  out there.
   I feel terrible when something like this happens. Losing a animal that is your responsibility to make sure they have everything they need to be healthy,comfortable happy campers is our job. Period. Some things I can see having something die because stuff happens no matter what. Like the younger cow we lost on Wednesday. We did everything we could this spring and pulled her through anaplaz. We thought we did real good. Saved a cow. Then here comes this heat. She has a calf. Still weak evidently from the spring illness and because I didn't listen to the mama in me and we were all tired I didn't make sure we moved her to the house where we could watch her better. Still the only thing that "might" have saved her is a IV and A/C and usually if you have to go to that extreme they don't live anyway. We did more than a lot of people around here do and still she just wasn't meant to live. Kind of like some people we know , sometimes it just isn't gonna happen right.
    Well it is 11:30 a and we are in for a rest and some lunch. Hubby was in some kind of really weak and bad stomach shape this morning so since everything is done we are going to be lazy bums in the A/C for a while. 
   The last few days we have been using Homeopathic China to get us through the heat stress. I don't know what we would have done without it that is for sure. Good grief! When it is this bad and you have pulled all the tricks out of the hat we just had to try this. It isn't like we could get up and run races but at least we could actually recuoperate with using this Homeopathic remedy. 

Ranchmama
( Still trying to get caught up......... I'm getting there. )