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Paynton area dairy barn burns down

A campaign has been started to help a Paynton family whose barn burned down Tuesday night. According to the GoFundMe page, the cows made it out of Delta Dairy’s barn but six young calves did not survive. Fifteen kittens were also lost.
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A campaign has been started to help a Paynton family whose barn burned down Tuesday night.

According to the GoFundMe page, the cows made it out of Delta Dairy’s barn but six young calves did not survive. Fifteen kittens were also lost.

Six calves had been penned outside, having just returned from the dairy show in Rosthern get back on their feet. 

The dairy barn belongs to Joseph Mosher and Kristin Shantz. It had only been up and going for nine months.

All the equipment in the barn is a loss and the family will have to start from scratch to replace the equipment and numerous other items that are critical to a dairy barn.

In addition, the family’s children had moved all their show gear and showing equipment back into the barn just hours before it went up in flames. This will also need to be replaced.

The cows were moved July 24 to another dairy barn to be looked after until Delta Dairy can get back on its feet, as dairy cows have to be milked daily or develop mastitis.