such is life on a farm

I have definately been remiss at my blogging duties and happy that roy has kept at it. We have had a busy 2 weeks. I will point form the highlights

1. Rescue of cattle that had fallen into Little Pierre Jacques river.
Aweek ago our neighbour Bill came tearing down the driveway asking for hands as 5 of his beef his cattle were drowning. Roy Jim and myself found ourselves Hauling out 4 live cattle and trying to keep them alive before they succumbed to hypothermia. Two had drowned as we watched on. The local fire dept were called and helped haul them up to the barn. Only one made it through this awful ordeal. The whole incident felt surreal and left us all with such a feeling of helplessnes.

2. Our horse April became caste and we almost lost her.
I went away for the weekend and luckily Roy got up early to find April Wedged upside down between an ice bank and the hay feeder. She must've been there for hours as she was drenched in sweat with her eyes rolling into the back of her head. With the help of the tractor Jim and Roy got her up, she was shaking so badly and almost went down again but after blanketing and being kept quiet she came through this ordeal with a only a lacerated eyelid and some tearing inside her ears as she must have thrashed her head around. Jim called the vet and she was treated with bute, an anti inflammatory and steroid. It truly is a miracle that she is alive as her system could have shut down very quickly. Thank you Jim and Roy.

These two incidents are a lesson that trouble can happen very quickly with livestock and how much we depend on the help of others to deal with such situations.