We're Backwards

Just when I think my weekend is coming to an end and I will not have a blog post from this weekend, I am wrong.  

Earlier this afternoon, Logan and I were up at Roger and Michelle's.  We got home around 5:00 and Logan was out feeding.  He noticed a cow that was going to calve, so he put her in the barn.  At 7:00, we had gotten done eating and Logan went into the other room to check the camera to see how the cow was doing.  She hadn't calved yet and it had been 2 hours.  Logan gets his stuff on to go outside and I say to him--If you need some farm girl help, you know who to call!! He says yea--make sure you keep the phone by you.  Well I should have known I was going out to help because about 7 minutes later I get a call that I need to go outside.  So I get my calving wardrobe on--sweatpants tucked into my cowgirl boots, winter coat, white gloves, and my white fashion headband. 

I get outside and Logan had the cow in the head gate and he was preparing for birth.  I stand there and take pictures while Logan is getting ready.  Logan goes in to figure out what is going on and he finds out that we have a backwards calf.

So Logan pulls the legs back so we can pull the calf out.  He gets the OB straps (the orange thing hanging on the gate) and puts it on the legs of the calf while I get the calf puller ready.  We hook everything up, and out comes the calf! Logan moves the calf to the other side of the barn and tells me to poke its nose with straw.  I say what? You have straws in the room out here? Nooo he says--WHEAT STRAW that is on the ground. (Blonde moment here I guess..) So I poke its nose with WHEAT straw to keep the calf breathing.  Logan says that calf came out wayy to easy, so he goes in to check for another calf, and sure enough, ANOTHER backwards calf! 

Logan pulls the calf's legs back to get ready to pull this one out again.  In the meantime, I have quit poking calf with straw and have my phone out to take pictures.  Logan looks at me and says--PUT THAT THING AWAY, I NEED HELP.  Ok...so I go over to where he is, grab the hooks for the OB straps.  Logan hooks them on and pulls calf #2 out! Lookie there folks, we just had 2 backwards calves!! 

My farm girl duties are over, so I was heading inside as the mom was claiming both calves and they are all doing fine.  Logan stops me and says here, put on this glove and carry in the OB straps (covered in afterbirth) and wash them off inside. EWWWWW, but I do it anyways.  I am SUCH a GOOD girlfriend!!

Farm Girl Tip # 24: If you have to take care of a newborn calf, be aware of your surroundings when you are taking pictures--you MOST LIKELY WILL get in trouble for not doing what you are supposed to be doing! :)

Farm Girl Tip # 25: Invest in gloves that ARE NOT white! You will have to take them off so they won't get dirty and contaminated with afterbirth! (I WILL be going to Runnings or somewhere to get my OWN "work/calving" gloves--I'm hoping to find PINK ones!!