R.I.P. Chocolate Milk

Since my last post, things took a turn this morning...for the worse... Chocolate Milk didn't look too good.  Our friend checked on him for us early this morning and said Chocolate Milk didn't look too good.  So I went to check on him a little bit later after I took the kids to school and he didn't look good.  His head was floppy he didn't want to sit up at all, and he didn't want anything no water, didn't want any grass or hay, and he refused to open his mouth so I could give him milk.  So I waited another hour or so to check on him again and when I opened the door to the shed he let out a moo and it seemed to me that he used the last little bit of air that was left in him to let out that moo.  I picked his head up to see if I could try giving him some more food at the last attempt to save him.  His head flopped right back down.  He wouldn't take the milk.  I tried putting a piece of grass in his mouth in hopes he would start chewing on it but he just laid there lifelessly and did not want to eat at all.  At that point I knew that was it, that was pretty much the end of his life right there.  I petted him for a little bit then left him alone and came back a few hours later, he was gone.  Just like that he was gone.  We did pray for Chocolate Milk.  We did pray for a miracle...I guess the miracle was not what we expected.  We expected he would miraculously get better.  Though not what we wanted the miracle is that he was gone so quickly, he didn't dread this out and he no longer suffers.

Goodbye, Chocolate Milk :(

I never get attached to animals, but when I discovered that Chocolate Milk was dead I was really sad.  He's the cutest calf we have thus far and EVERYONE just loves him!  He really was a sweet calf.

I spent just about the whole afternoon digging a hole to bury Chocolate Milk.  Hubby was at work, but thankfully for friends who came to help!  We dug a 2 X 4 feet and 4 feet deep hole so it was a lot of work.  2x4x4 might not sound like a lot but when you have to dig it, it is a lot of work!