30/05/2026
Yesterday’s Calf Chaos 🫣🤪
45 minutes before our driver was due to arrive for date night…
Cue … Foster care emergency‼️
I headed out to feed the calves an early dinner.
5 calves should have been waiting at the gate. Instead… no calves 😳😵💫.
I yelled out for Ben and started to frantically search. I spotted one standing in the bush behind the pen and then noticed a fence panel pushed out. My heart sank. 4 were missing.
The bush behind the pen is thick, and with previous dog and fox attacks in the area, it only being only an hour or so until sunset my brain immediately went to catastrophe mode.
While Ben and I were crashing through lantana and scrub searching for the remaining calves, I texted our driver to warn him we might have to cancel due to a calf emergency.
Thankfully, the calves had wandered around the back of our property, through the council strip between properties, and were happily hiding in thick lantana a few properties over.
This is where bucket training saved the day.
After I pushed them through the fence, Ben shook the feed bucket, the four little fugitives came charging after Ben and ran al
We managed to herd them safely back into a secure pen, do their milk feed, and showered, dressed (apparently we can shower, dress for a night out in 15 mins!) and called our driver to see if he could still fit our slightly delayed pick up in his schedule and gave him a laugh as replayed the afternoons events on the drive in. Thank you to Kwi Rideshare for going above and beyond … we really appreciate it!!
The calves are safe, our blood pressure slowly returned to normal, and those date-night drinks have never been more deserved. 🍷😂
