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The last two Babies!!
So the last two cows in the herd FINALLY had their calves, one on the 7th(boy) and the last on the 12th(girl!!!). Personally, I think they are the two cutest ones out of the whole bunch because we can tell them apart from all the others. And of course it had to be the last two who had white on them. We have been waiting all year for calves that look like this and they made us wait, and wait, and wait.
This is Moony, with proud mama #24, (I didn't put a name because we all have a different name we call her). Born on a semi-cold Sunday, we were not really expecting him to come first, seeing as mom didn't look like she was ready. But she surprised us and and then we found out he had white on his face and then we didn't care if he surprised us, he was cute and has a very good mama, who watches her baby like a hawk.
I really like his nose and ears, and you can't see it in the pictures, but he has white on his belly and in between his front legs. He is a little smaller (about 70 lbs) than all the other bull calves were when they were born, but mama is a smaller cow so that was kinda expected.
And this is Daisy, she was the one we thought would come first seeing as mama looked like she would explode if you touched her, she waddled around for about a week before she gave birth and just looked dang uncomfortable. Daisy was born on Friday afternoon, we would have liked her to have been born earlier in the day seeing as it was chilly and supposed to get colder and VERY windy (25-35 mph winds), but what can you do? So, we had to put her and mama in the pen and make a wind block so she could get warm and survive the night. And mama was being kinda ornery and wouldn't stand still so we had to bottle feed her her first meal, but that got fixed, and thankfully, she nurses off mama now.
Another thing that we liked about her was that she is brown and white, not black and white. But we will have to see if that sticks around, we had some other calves who were a reddish black color that turned all black. We didn't get a picture of mama(#22), but she is a bigger cow and she had a big baby, 85-90 lbs. She is one of the biggest heifer calves that we had this year. And so we are looking forward to having more little ones in about two months, and starting off a new round of watching, waiting, guessing, hoping, and everything else we do in preparation for new calves.
This is Moony, with proud mama #24, (I didn't put a name because we all have a different name we call her). Born on a semi-cold Sunday, we were not really expecting him to come first, seeing as mom didn't look like she was ready. But she surprised us and and then we found out he had white on his face and then we didn't care if he surprised us, he was cute and has a very good mama, who watches her baby like a hawk.
I really like his nose and ears, and you can't see it in the pictures, but he has white on his belly and in between his front legs. He is a little smaller (about 70 lbs) than all the other bull calves were when they were born, but mama is a smaller cow so that was kinda expected.
And this is Daisy, she was the one we thought would come first seeing as mama looked like she would explode if you touched her, she waddled around for about a week before she gave birth and just looked dang uncomfortable. Daisy was born on Friday afternoon, we would have liked her to have been born earlier in the day seeing as it was chilly and supposed to get colder and VERY windy (25-35 mph winds), but what can you do? So, we had to put her and mama in the pen and make a wind block so she could get warm and survive the night. And mama was being kinda ornery and wouldn't stand still so we had to bottle feed her her first meal, but that got fixed, and thankfully, she nurses off mama now.
Another thing that we liked about her was that she is brown and white, not black and white. But we will have to see if that sticks around, we had some other calves who were a reddish black color that turned all black. We didn't get a picture of mama(#22), but she is a bigger cow and she had a big baby, 85-90 lbs. She is one of the biggest heifer calves that we had this year. And so we are looking forward to having more little ones in about two months, and starting off a new round of watching, waiting, guessing, hoping, and everything else we do in preparation for new calves. 
2 comments:
they are pretty cute babies. the boys loved seeing them. Jaren kept saying, "baby!" "baby!" We'll be excited to see them when we come visit. Hopefully it won't be freezing cold!
So you did end up having extra work with the late explosive cow. I guess she thought you needed more to do. I've been telling the girls about baby cows, so they'll be excited to see them when we get out there.
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