Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

I milked until nothing came out, no heat or pain. And hardly any milk. Maybe I’m just feeling milk ducts?

I might also have bangs. She took a big bite out of my braid.

Sometimes the teat is plugged, or if she has mastitis, the teat hardens up. Even though you can't get much milk, keep trying, applying heat and massage. They have medication for dairy cows that goes up in the teat, get some of that. I never let kids nurse on an infected teat, and discard the milk. It often has a tinge of blood in it, plus bacteria.

 

[campingshaws]

Sometimes the teat is plugged, or if she has mastitis, the teat hardens up. Even though you can't get much milk, keep trying, applying heat and massage. They have medication for dairy cows that goes up in the teat, get some of that. I never let kids nurse on an infected teat, and discard the milk. It often has a tinge of blood in it, plus bacteria.

I need to read more on it. The teat did feel a bit plugged at first, but got easier. It doesn’t appear to be an off color. Maybe it felt firm because it was so full, and seemed sore for the same reason.

I’m going to build a better stand in there so I can also trim her hooves. I’ll plan to milk her out when I bottle the kids, so I’ll know they have full bellies.

 

[h2oratt]

Is Gertrude's udder better? Soft?


I noticed.

I thought it was strange because you don’t have any teeth, I thought.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I milked until nothing came out, no heat or pain. And hardly any milk. Maybe I’m just feeling milk ducts?

I might also have bangs. She took a big bite out of my braid.

mine love my hair! I always have most of it up in a bun but my bangs hang. It's very tempting when I'm in their pen!

 

[oldrooster]

Ughhhhh.

So while I was showering this morning I had an OH CRAP moment.

I forgot to turn on the heat lamp for the chicklets last night!!! Aah!! So run to the garage, see the two chick piles. My leggy was zonked so I woke her butt up and they’re all looking at me like “what do you want mom? We’re sleeping!”

So I turned it on so they’d have some warmth before hubs leaves and turns it off.

Sigh. Work continues to drive me mad. Coworker gives me a statement to reconcile for a vendor she usually deals with/enters their invoices. Find out not a single invoice on their statement are entered. She doesn’t always give me statements from “her” vendors to reconcile but I’m glad she did in this case. April and beginning of May. Gah!

Turns out she had them all on her computer “I swear I must have printed those out”

Another case one of the vendors I deal with - missing an invoice from June 1st. Just caught it while reconciling that statement. Request it from the vendor, get it, add it to my pile of “bossman these are old can you approve them ASAP” and she goes oh! I think I have that one!

SITTING ON HER DESK.

So you are dealing with A CRUEL accounting right now huh?

 

[campingshaws]

They don’t have blue eyes, don’t be fooled! Just the lighting.

 

[h2oratt]

I woke up w/ bangs this am.

You should have gotten the bangs vaccine.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I need to read more on it. The teat did feel a bit plugged at first, but got easier. It doesn’t appear to be an off color. Maybe it felt firm because it was so full, and seemed sore for the same reason.

I’m going to build a better stand in there so I can also trim her hooves. I’ll plan to milk her out when I bottle the kids, so I’ll know they have full bellies.

I had a cow with a swollen udder. It was about 3x the size of the other one. The plug never dropped out. So I had to get this big old cow in a shoot, pull the plug and milk her. She was never very happy with me but eventually (after almost a week) she was back to regular size. She did this 2 years in a row and we ended up selling her. She didn't have mastitis but that plug was pretty large and hard.

 

[h2oratt]

Camping, the babies look good.

 

[AlleysChicks]

They don’t have blue eyes, don’t be fooled! Just the lighting.

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They are adorable! So what are we thinking dad is?