purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[norseofcourse]

Woohoo, congrats! And a heifer!

 

[OneFineAcre]

Congrats on the new heifer

 

[SkyWarrior]

The vet came out this morning and guess who is not blind??? That's right, CRICKET! Over the last couple days, her eyes have been getting less and less cloudy and she's been much more confident. The vet said that she got an infection at birth that settled in her eyes. She is responding to the antibiotics that I've been giving her since Saturday and she should fully recover!

We were starting to suspect that her sight was getting better because she needed no help latching on to her bottle (she always knew exactly where it was) and could, without fail, find a person in her pen without running into anything else. This morning I let her out of her pen after I fed her and she was going in and out of the barn all by herself and hopping around outside. She even ran up the poop pile!

Looks like we will now have 3 permanent residents in our herd, the 2 Jerseys (Fern and Ethel) and the Angus (Cricket). This also means that we won't be needing to buy dairy bull calves for our beefers anymore. Fern is bred to a red Angus this year. Ethel is bred to a Jersey (maybe she'll have a nice heifer we can sell), but we will probably breed her back to an Angus.

Congrats on Cricket!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Congrats on the new one and that's great news about Cricket!

 

[SkyWarrior]

Congrats on the new heifer too!

 

[jodief100]

Woo Hoo!!!!! Good news all round!

 

[purplequeenvt]

Puppies! My Great Pyrenees, Mira, had her litter on 8/10. She had 13, but we lost 2 within the 1st couple days. Read more here: http://www.backyardherds.com/threads/weve-been-keeping-a-secret-over-here.31683/

In other news....my family is adopting a 14 year old boy from Bulgaria. It's been over a year in the works and we are finally getting close to bringing him home. If you'd like to learn more or would be interested in donating to help us cover the immense cost of adoption, take a look at our GoFundMe page: http://www.gofundme.com/bulgariatovermont

 

[purplequeenvt]

You know that saying "I feel like I was hit by a truck"? Yeah. Well, I now know exactly what the feels like.

My mom and I were in a really bad car accident last night. We hit a patch of black ice, slid through a stop sign, and got hit by a tractor trailer truck. It all happened so fast. We both survived, but it could have been much, much worse. I'm banged up emotionally and physically. My mom separated her left shoulder and fractured her right knee (the tibial plateau for you medical people). She had surgery this afternoon to repair the knee. Surgery went well.

I'm sore everywhere. It would be faster to list the areas that don't hurt.

It was a miracle that we made it out of that vehicle alive. The van didn't fare as well.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh my... thank God ya'll came through that!

 

[Hens and Roos]

oh wow....so glad to hear that you come through! and praying for a speedy recovery for you both