Showing posts with label cows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cows. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2011

Dairy Love to Uganda!

We've been blogging several of the things that have happened while we have been in Africa. But honestly,
there is NO WAY to tell it all.

However, I want to share some of the work that Brian did while he was here.

As many know, Brian is a dairyman. He operates a large (1,500 head) dairy operation in Ohio. Although he works in this small corner of our existence, he has a heart that goes out to the nations. He knew we were coming to Africa to adopt, but he could not pass up the opportunity to help out a few villages with his dairy expertise.

He spent two full days deworming cattle and goats and giving them an extra nutritional boost. I followed him around with the camera. (I preferred the safety of distance from some of these long horned fellows!)

We traveled on this footpath in a 4WD vehicle to reach the villagers!

Valuable tools to Brian's work!

This village man was a very happy, willing assistant!

"Open WIDE!!" It was funny, some goats whined and complained like toddlers...others said nothing!
Fortunately, deworming cattle is a topical thing now...

This should serve as a reminder to not ask Brian to give you your next shot!!
The goat hold!


A sweet boy who captured my attention while Brian worked on nearly 103 goats and over 50 cattle!

"You said you want to DE-WORM me??!?!?!"


Monday, June 27, 2011

Going to Uganda!!

We bought tickets to travel to Uganda!! We are incredibly excited!!!!! 
We are going to hold this sweet little one's hand and love all over him!!


Many people are dying to know details...and well, we can't give out too much at this point. (Sorry!) But we can share with you that our trip is NOT to bring him home, as we do not have a court date assigned to us at this point. We are simply going because we are in love and we MUST be with this sweet boy and begin bonding with him and his culture.

As many of you know, we have lived overseas before. We absolutely cannot wait to spend some time in his culture learning what life in Uganda is like. We will be spending time together with Z in his orphanage serving all the children while we are there. (It's a big job to feed that many kids 5x a day!)

We are also excited to be able to help out different ministries with their dairy cows and goats as well! We are so thrilled that a pharmaceutical company is DONATING some special deworming medicine that will greatly help out the Ugandan animals! Brian will use his expertise in many locations and we are so thrilled to have this opportunity!

Now the hard part...waiting to board the plane!! Hmmmm, I sense a theme here! Do you?



Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Till the Cows Come Home


You might be wondering what's next...cause today

the cow came home!

Yes, literally.


And of course, left a little something behind...
ewwwww!

People often ask me when they hear we have chickens,
"I thought you lived in town?"

We do.

That makes this all the more exciting doesn't it?
;)


This little guy was born just earlier today, March 1st!
He had to be convinced to eat!
The  warmest he'd been all day!
Learning to stand!



DQ checks out the newborn....

Delight!!

Zora "welcomes" the little guy!


Happy farmer daddy!


Perhaps next week:

Pigs fly!


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