So this year for the 4th of July, Ridenhour Farm's pulled the float in the parade for the Son's of Confederate Veteran's. Rowan Rifels, Camp #405. We had ton's of fun and realy injoyed helping them again this year. After the parade, Dixie Bell, went to Sc with her grandma (who BTW came up for the 4th and was in the parade with us). Then Michael and Maggie took a nap. After the nap the plan was to go to his parent's house for a cook out BUT we went and checked on the cow's 1st, and found one of our cow's "BB" in labor with feet hanging out of her butt. Michael said that something was wrong and for me to go get the Vet phone number. So I did. If you know anything about cow's you know that when they are in labor they are off by themself's. BB was up with all the other cow's, standing up and walking around and the baby's feet were upside down, that's how Michael knew that something was wrong. The Vet came out about an hour later and him and Michael tied BB cow up and pulled the baby calf out of her. The baby is a GIRL (that seem's to happen a lot in our family). Both mom and baby are doing good. We had to unfortunaly take the baby (Sissy) away from BB because the same night she busted through the barn becuase of the cop's being out there for some reason and scared all of the cow's. Sissy couldn't get to BB to suck on her so BB's bag is extremly huge and Sissy can't fit her mouth on the teat's. Yesterday after Michael came home from work we went and checked on them and decided to bring Sissy home with us. Sissy is still weak and not strong and wild like a normal 3-4 day old calf should be. We are bottle feeding her and she is starting to come around a little bit. So it's offical now. I have hauled a goat and baby calf in thebed of my pick up truck :)
