We rescued Casey at the beginning of May 2009. Not sure of alot of details about him. Casey is a white (what we believe to be a charolais) bull calf. Well he would have been a bull if they hadn't banded him.
How Casey was rescued...We had driven by a house many times on our way other places. We noticed this place had alot of "junk" all over the yard. The had no fenced yard. But tied on a short green rope to a pine tree right beside the highway was a tiny white calf. That bothered me. Everytime I drove past this house I wanted to stop so badly. There was nothing for this poor calf to eat. Finally after a few weeks, I stopped and went to the door and just flat out asked the people if they would consider selling him. The guy first said "naw", then about 10 seconds later said "I'll take $50 for him". I said "SOLD!". Poor Casey had a small cooler with stagnant green water and was wrapped around that pine tree so tight he could barely lay down. The rope around his neck was so tight the guy couldn't untie it. He had to go get a knife to cut it off. As we were leaving, he brought out a bucket of "feed" for us to take with us for Casey. The bucket had stale moldy feed in it. No wonder this calf was malnourished.
Immediately I felt this poor calf would be happier. We took Casey to the vet and had him examined. According to the guy we got him from, he should be about 2-4 months old. We loaded up a couple of our 2 month old bull calfs to take the the vet and found that Casey was HALF their size. So poor Casey's growth has been stunted pretty bad. He also hasd a pretty bad case of mites. He was in sad shape.
He loves having all the other lil boys to play with. He gets plenty of food now and can run all over the green pasture, which he absolutely loves. He is so happy. He will let me pet on him some but is still leary of people. He will come around eventually. The mites have cleared up. He is healthy now except for the fact that he is still small. Probably wont get nearly as big as he should have if he had been raised right in the beginning. But thats ok, hes still cute as a button! :)
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