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[Bleenie]

I should get at least a couple done tonight... My older heifer calf went and caught Phneumonia so I am going to be up all night checking on her. Hoping the antibiotics kick in fast and she gets breathing normal in a couple hours

I made one yesterday inspired by KreativeKat's 50/50 square in Gold & Cornmeal(love thosecolors!!)... hope someone likes it!

 

[Kassaundra]

I counted after I finished one tonight and I have 12 done, well the squares not the embroider work.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Ok, 18 it is. I think I have 7 or 8 done now. I've been moving the colors around so they're not all the same.

I'll try to get pics posted soon.

 

[Kassaundra]

I should get at least a couple done tonight... My older heifer calf went and caught Phneumonia so I am going to be up all night checking on her. Hoping the antibiotics kick in fast and she gets breathing normal in a couple hours

I made one yesterday inspired by KreativeKat's 50/50 square in Gold & Cornmeal(love thosecolors!!)... hope someone likes it!

How did your calf do through the night?

 

[Lacy Blues]

I should get at least a couple done tonight... My older heifer calf went and caught Phneumonia so I am going to be up all night checking on her. Hoping the antibiotics kick in fast and she gets breathing normal in a couple hours

I made one yesterday inspired by KreativeKat's 50/50 square in Gold & Cornmeal(love thosecolors!!)... hope someone likes it!

I hope you don't mind me trying to help. I hope I'm not seen as a "know it all" because I'm not I just care about people as well as animals and I don't trust doctors. I have a great book that has been 100% correct in all of its diagnosis of my problems and cures.

This is a quote:

"Vitamin A given to groups of patients h as shortened the duration of such infections as measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, and infections of the eyes, middle ear, sinuses, kidneys, intestines, ovaries, uterus, and vagina. The vitamin has proved valuable too, in clearing up impetigo, boils, carbuncles and open ulcers, particularly when applied locally.

Thou vitamin A is usually well absorbed during infections, a water-dispersed preparation is preferable to that dissolved in oil when an illness is acute or diarrhea occurs. Physicians have given 200,000 units daily for six months with no signs of toxicity being recognized, though rarely are more than 50,000 units needed daily. Unless Vitamin E is amply supplied, however, the vitamin A obtained from foods or supplements, the vitamin A already in the blood, and that stored in the liver and other body tissues is quickly destroyed by oxygen; therefore, what appears to be a lack of vitamin A may in fact be a deficiency of vitamin E."

Now, how to go about getting large enough doses of both of those for a calf. High vitamin A foods: persimmons, papaya, cantaloupe, watercress leaves and stems, turnip greens are extremely high, as are sweet potatoes, winter squash (cooked pumpkin), spinach, dandelion greens (if available this time of year), kale, lamb's quarters (a green plant), mustard greens, chard, carrots and beet greens.

Wheat germ oil is very high in vitamin E.

Hope I'm not being a pest.

 

[Alethea]

Bleenie,

Thank you for your care and concern for those calves. It makes a difference. As far as why other people can be so uncaring, it comes down to ignorance. if they (we) knew better, we'd do better.

Do the calves have names? I'm offering merit for all of you.

 

[Bleenie]

They do have names... the older one was Isabella but changed to just Bella because of my pup already being an Izzy . The younger one my niece named Butterscotch. Bella was up and about this morning! finished her feeding without problem too. I bought somereal ProBios and a new eye medicine yesterday. Bellas eyes are looking better(less ulcered) and both girls are looking shiny and getting a little "padding" all over... still a ways to go though!

Here's a picture of each. and also a picture of the trees out front this morning... I lost my glasses a few days ago so maybe it just looked extra pretty with the blur? lol.
Bella

Butterscotch


I love these trees out front, no matter what time of year they always look so pretty!


Lacy Blues, you're not a pest! I really appreciate the input/help. I've had troublesome calves in the past but none this up & down. Everything helps!

 

[Kassaundra]

That is "with padding"!!!!!! Oh my poor babies.

 

[sebocat]

Those calves are adorable! I don't have cows, but I do have horses, and my vet has me supplement vitamin a and e. she said hay is often low in both. Noticed a huge change in coat sheen and overall appearance, even hoof health with my horses. I feed vitamin a tabs from Walmart -betacartine. Cheap. The vitamin e is powdered and I order it. Vet said natural sources are better than synthetic, so I spend the extra cash. I can dig up that info if you are interested

 

[Lacy Blues]

That sounds easier to me. I take a ton of vitamins (hate the things!) because I just can't get enough of what I need from the food that is available. If I can ever get up enough energy to grow a garden, it will be as organic as I can go, and feed my soil instead of forcing it and that way I'll have food that actually has some vitamin/mineral content to it. Sheesh! It's unbelievable how much food you have to eat nowadays to get vitamins that just aren't there due to forcing the soil to grow stuff with synthetic fertilizers, sure they don't smell as bad as the good stuff but then the food you grow is actually healthy!

Getting off my soap box. Sorry for going off topic!