I live in very rural Saskatchewan Canada, 

 

This weekend, as we ladies visited during our Ladies curling bonspiel, one
young farm wife shared a story about raising an orphaned calf, after her
favourite heifer (cow having its first calf - what do you call this for
humans - a primigravida?) died during birth.

 

Anyhow, this lady said she had no calf starter (powdered bovine colostrum)
on hand (every farmer knows that calves need colostrum "calf starter",
rather than just normal cow's milk), but she had many bags of her own breast
milk left over in the freezer, from having had a son a year ago.  So she fed
that to the calf!!!!

 

I'm sure that breast milk would have been put to better use by just feeding
it to her son, but I thought it was a pretty funny story!!!

 

Janice Reynolds

Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Canada


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