There are little fine snow flurries drifting down from time to time this morning. Must be warmer this morning, some snow came crashing off the metal roof so it must be warming up for the first time in weeks. Saw one of the Saturday customers going out the gate pulling a little sled with two bags of brewers grain and a tin bucket balanced on top of the sled.
Garry had a cow with an upset stomach yesterday, he gave her some baking soda to settle it down, but this morning he listened to her with his stethoscope and decided she had a twisted stomach or DA. So the vet came out around noon. At home in Canada this is a pretty simple and normally sucessful operation, where one of the cow's stomachs (the abomasum) is untwisted and stitched down but we were wondering what the vet would prescribe here.
Fortunately we didn't find out because went they checked her Garry couldn't hear the twist - you tap on the cow's belly and you hear a pinging sound through the stethoscope- the vet gave her a bunch of stuff and put her on antibiotics. He said it was a 100% cure, so hopefully he's right and the cow is fine when we get back in two weeks. Garry says she calved sometime in the last month. The milk fever cow is doing great now, back in her stall.
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