Treating a chill

T and K are away this weekend which usually means unexpected things on the farm start to happen!  First we had to get all the suckler cows with their calves into the yard as B had noticed one of the little ones had a chill and needed to be treated.   So in they all came the mothers bawling their heads off as we separated the two from the others.  We prepared a warm electrolyte mixture for the calf and took the tube down but fortunately it drank enough from the bucket, the mother looking on.  Then a cow which was already in another yard, the last to calve, looked as if she was just thinking about it when 20 mins later when we looked she had already produced and then another 10 minutes later there was another - twins!  They are very small and weak so we shall have to feed them colostrum with a tube as they probably wont be on their feet to suckle their mother.  Just hope they survive.