FEBRUARY IN THE PADDOCK

The first cria we had in 2022 was Sunset Legacy who got off to a very difficult start. At 10pm on a Friday evening one of our Vets had to turn him and then with some difficulty pull him out. A couple of hours later he had an umbilical bleed but fortunately we were there to put on a clamp. Once he had suckled he was well away and soon put on lots of weight.

Our second cria was Sunset Leonardo who had a relatively easy birth but whose Mum didn’t have a lot of milk to start with and he wasn’t very well in the extremely hot weather but is slowly putting on weight

Our third cria to be born was Sunset Lily who needed a little help. She was then slow to get up and hadn’t a clue where the milk bar was. As she started to go down hill, we milked her Mum and fed her with a bottle which soon got her back on her feet; but on returning outside she went to the nearest tree to try to suckle. I managed to turn her around and put her under Mum and wow light bulb moment, she recognised the teat from the bottle and hasn’t looked back since