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4mama2
We had a mama heifer abandon her calf over the weekend (calf born Friday) and we didn’t realize until Sunday she wasn’t feeding him. We’ve been bottle feeding him around the clock but got him to the vet too late (he never got mamas colostrum and we realized too late). His little tummy was so small by the time we got him tubed and antibodies he developed calf scour and passed overnight. I even cried last night my husband wouldn’t let me put him in the house on some newspaper and old blankets, he was just a baby all alone! & now I feel terrible poor baby calf passed away all alone during the night �� I told my husband next time we are unsure if a calf got colostrum we are loading them up and taking them to our vet right away!
I’m so glad my 2 y/o was at a spend the night with his grandma because he’s been helping us feed “baby cow” so he wasn’t here when my husband found him this morning. He was in the barn pin right next to our house and now I feel like we lost a pet.
Nobody tells you the emotional toll of homesteading �� it has to be these third trimester pregnancy hormones!
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Lana-94
these hormones are wild. I cried last night over a mom skunk getting trapped and being away from it's babies. i kept crying saying i need to save all the babies in the world. my husband thought I was seriously losing it.
and we are dealing with rabbits in our garden but I refused to let my husband shoot one even though I know it will just be back to eat my vegetables. and then I'll cry because a rabbit ate my vegetables
I'm so sorry about your calf, that's so hard :((
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4mama2
@Lana-94,
I know it happens but we have been so fortunate, we had never lost a calf before. We had a couple coyote scares in the past but our cows are like our babies we check on them daily! I hate we didn’t catch the mama not nursing her baby sooner ��
We have yard rabbits I also refuse to let my husband “take care of!” It is definitely these hormones ��
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Cried on my way to work for being in a bad mood this morning with my toddler and she cried when I left. I cried on Sunday thinking about anybody who lost their dads and it was Father’s Day. I just cry daily at this point when anything I see is sad or if I get upset or really any reason ��
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4mama2
@loadingmommaoftwo,
I cry feeling like I’m losing patience with my toddler and the mom guilt eats me alive!
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loadingmommaoftwo
@4mama2,
I’ve been feeling so guilty lately but today had to be the worst! ��
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kjSLP
Last night I cried because I accidentally watched 10 seconds of a TikTok video of a tribute to someone’s dog who died. I sobbed and hugged my dogs and kept saying “I just love them so much!”
Yesterday I cried when my husband got home because I didn’t have dinner ready (he did not expect me to have dinner ready, btw)
This morning I cried because my husband asked me to choose a coffee shop to get a treat from after our dr appointment and there were too many options to choose from.
Send. Help. ��
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4mama2
@kjSLP,
the coffee treat would have triggered tears for me too!
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amjuber
Pregnant or not, that would destroy me! ����
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4mama2
@amjuber,
I didn’t realize how upset I would be! I just knew this baby calf was gonna pull through and guilt that we didn’t get those antibodies soon enough is consuming me ��
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dlaur
Ooof I forsure wouldn’t be able to handle that. We put our dog down a few months ago and I’m still crying over it. Thankfully I haven’t been hit too hard with the hormones but that one ripped me apart. I’m sorry that happened to you guys��
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FaithL12
My husband moved the Swiss ball away from my feet last night, not knowing I had a plan in my head to put my foot on it… I’ve reached crazy town
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DustyThong
I'm so sorry you lost a calf! that is hard!
we homestead as well and one morning I woke up to a dog killing one of my ducks. I was DEVASTATED. I'm such a bird lady so my chickens and ducks are my absolute favorite. I marked my ducks grave and everything and buried him under the tree he was always at.
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lenorabb2024
I cried because my husband said I have nothing to worry about and I’ll be a great mother?! I was like ��I’m allowed to be scared�� I also cried because of his work schedule around my due date which in retrospect wasn’t even that bad. Hormones are a b**ch and I take responsibility for my actions lol
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Petstore
I ugly cried for 20 minutes because were going through renovations and I couldn't get to my plants because my husband piled furniture around them and I was too fat to squeeze in to water them and they were dry.
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strawberrydonut
WALL-E and EVA falling in robot love sent me completely over the edge and deeply concerned my 3 year old 😂😂
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pinkprincesskay
@strawberrydonut,
hey this one’s valid lol. My boyfriend is a 27 year old man and still can’t control his emotions watching that movie ��
He’s also the same big, strong tattooed man who cries watching the office when Michael Scott leaves ����
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