Introducing Barbar and Mike Mulligan
This year we have chosen to name our babies after early 20th century fictional characters from children’s books. Babar had a difficult start to his world. There was a slight dystocia so he and his mom had a difficult time with his arrival. We were lucky to have a local midwife familiar with farm animals help us out with the delivery. Babar was not gaining weight, so we started giving him goat’s milk every two hours. Babar’s next challenge was his front legs. He had contracted tendons which made him walk with his front knees bent. He then developed a limp on his left front leg. After we tried our own version of physical therapy, Susan took him to a vet and he got a split pictured here. Our grandson, Hayden, also broke his arm and we wanted his cast to look like Babar’s, so they both have purple appendages.
Babar with splint
Babar and Hayden
Babar’s last challenge (we hope) is high IgG level is low. IgGs are immunoglobulins that we is supposed to get from his mom’s colostrum within 12 hours after birth. He didn’t get enough, so we gave him llama plasma. I’ll spare you the details on how this was done, but you can ask me when you visit.
Mike Mulligan is doing very well. He weight 16.4 lbs at birth and just 3 days later, he is over 19 lbs. He has been bounding around the pastures. He is a very cute boy with a white spot on his nose.
Mike Mulligan
Mike Mulligan
