It’s spring and that means calves on the farm. This little calf’s mom chose to feed its twin and not him so we brought him home to our barn and named him Oliver. A calf will die if it doesn’t get colostrum. Thankfully, you can buy a colostrum formula which we did on Saturday night and bottle fed it to Oliver. He was a good little eater, too.
On Sunday morning, it was this cowboy’s turn to milk. He brought some milk up for the calf when he was done.
The cowhands poured it into a bottle,
and headed to the barn.
Oliver was too weak to get up so they helped him open his mouth and start sucking.
After a minute or so, he stood up to drink and we knew he was going to be alright.