Hey Everyone:

Preliminary reports have come in on our dead calf.  Initial diagnoses are peritinitis and plueritis (not sure if I'm spelling those right).  Basically, it's inflammation of the lining of the lungs (I'm told).  Our vet says it would have been caused by some type of internal trauma, such as eating some metal.

The Vet Center doing the post is going to continue running tests to try to determine the causes of the P & P - so we should know a lot more by next week.

But we were thrilled that it definitely had no contageous disease and no parasites(!).  So we feel like we can breathe a sigh of relief that hopefully there's nothing about to spread through our whole herd.

So guess what we're doing this weekend.....getting EVERY SCRAP of metal and debris out of that field!