10/1 #1
Woke up to CHAOS this morning, which is why I'm getting such a late start here. It was 48 degrees and foggy enough I could barely see 100 yards. Got out to the barn to find Ellie in there. She was put in the horse pasture several days ago (weaning her from momma's milk). While Lannie was locking her in a stall, we noticed she had bad ........ - yup, she drank about three gallons from her mom, which left nothing for baby Cryssie. I went out to check the cross-fence while Lannie came up with a solution to feed both babies. Apparently Ellie wanted to be back with her mom enough to break the hot wire (and get about 10,000 volts in the process), which also pulled off nine insulators, then she went downstream where the charger wasn't getting to, and busted through the barbed wire. So I will have a lot of fence mending to do as soon as we see to the babies getting some breakfast. We distracted Helen (Little John's mommy) with some alfalfa pellets and put Cryssie on her other side, so Helen didn't mind two calves and she got a full tummy to start the day and if I can keep Ellie out, she'll get more from Cricket later in the day. In any case, right after we had our breakfast, I had to go fix the fence. Then we put Ellie back over with the horses and watched for awhile before deciding she wasn't ready to challenge the fence again yet. I'll have to check on her periodically throughout the remainder of the day.
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Redrock Canyon, N.E. Wyoming