Life on the farm is tough sometimes

We had a great weekend with my parents and were spiritually up lifted for the time being, but when we came back to the real world we had a few tough things to deal with. We were knew we would be gone for two days, so we hired Darin's dad Del to watch over the herd for those two days. When we came home, this is what we found out.

This red cow went into labor, but never delivered the calf because she never dilated. We had the vet come out to give her a check up and found out that the baby calf died inside the momma cow. The vet had to perform a c-section to get the baby calf out and try to save the momma cow, when the vet was doing the c-section, he noticed that the reason why the cow didn't dilate properly is because it had cancer. We had to put the cow down, so we lost a momma cow and a baby cow. Be glad that I have left out most of the gory details on this story.
On Saturday morning, there was a blizzard and another cow decided to have her baby right in the middle of the blizzard, when Darin's dad checked on the cows he noticed that the calf had been born, but it was way too cold. The calf had to be brought into my kitchen and had heaters, leg warmers, and blow dryers, so that it could be warmed up. Luckily, Darin's dad knows what he is doing and he was able to save the calf from freezing. He in listed in the help of Darin's mom, and sisters for their blow drying expertise. We named the calf Lucky and decided that we would keep it because it is a heifer.

Of course all of this stuff has to happen when we dedide to go somewhere for the weekend. Silly cows. Okay, I think I really am done blogging about cows for now.