Our little bull calf “Manny” was born in August.  We noticed a swelling around his umbilical cord a few days ago and it was growing in size.  So, we called the local vet in Whitehall, who came out with his shoot to take a look.  The night before we separated him in a small paddock made with cattle panels.  We put part of the water tank into the paddock with some ratchet straps across so he could drink, but not get out… at least that was the plan.  When the vet was ready to get him into the shoot, Manny wanted no part of that!  He got pretty excited, and actually moved the paddocks when he butted into them- I thought he was going to climb out!  Then he decided to go through the ratchet straps into the water tank.  The vet grabbed his tail and Craig and I got in front of him on the other side- we managed to push-pull him back into the paddock!  Wish I had a video of that!!  Anyway, poor Manny decided to go into the shoot after that.  He had an abscess that needed to be drained (how gross) and also had a slight case of pneumonia.  After a few shots, he got to go back out to his mom to have some milk and attention.  Poor Manny!  Our first vet call… what a doozy.

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