ReluctantFarmer Journal

[ReluctantFarmer]

Our 3rd calf of 2019. Another healthy girl from older cow. We have been so blessed this calving season to not have any issues. Two more to go from our heifers. Fingers crossed

 

[ReluctantFarmer]

Btw @farmerjan i think we now have a nursery . All the young calves were sleeping around the new mama yesterday while the other mamas came up to eat. Every parent needs a babysitter occasionally!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Congratulations to you and your girls

 

[Mini Horses]

What a lovely group you have there! Calves are so cute -- as are most young animals. Only thing with most goats is that they are usually tamer so the kids can be picked up & cuddled! Nothing more fun than hugging the babies. Cows are not generally so accommodating

 

[B&B Happy goats]

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What a lovely group you have there! Calves are so cute -- as are most young animals. Only thing with most goats is that they are usually tamer so the kids can be picked up & cuddled! Nothing more fun than hugging the babies. Cows are not generally so accommodating

at 66 i can cuddle and walk with a armfull of goat kids....a calf would probably do me in,....but they sure are cute

 

[goatgurl]

congrats on the new babies. and yup its kind of hard to cuddle a calf, either they or their mama object. I love driving down the road and seeing the calf nurseries. one mama stands guard and the rest go about their business. makes me smile

 

[B&B Happy goats]

congrats on the new babies. and yup its kind of hard to cuddle a calf, either they or their mama object. I love driving down the road and seeing the calf nurseries. one mama stands guard and the rest go about their business. makes me smile

Funny you just said that, just came in from outside and neighbors cows and calfs are at my fence....so sweet to look out and see all the calfs, cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, donkeys, and goats around us....this is my paradise

 

[goatgurl]

I hear ya on that. don't know what i'd do without all my critters. gives me peace, or at least most of the time, lol

 

[ReluctantFarmer]

What a lovely group you have there! Calves are so cute -- as are most young animals. Only thing with most goats is that they are usually tamer so the kids can be picked up & cuddled! Nothing more fun than hugging the babies. Cows are not generally so accommodating

Haha, yeah we usually don’t hug ours. Except two winters ago when a calf got out and was running down the road, I had to jump out of the truck and tackle it. I laid there in the ditch hugging it tightly until Dad got there. I’m sure it looked funny with my Dad driving, me riding shotgun and the calf between us riding on the bench seat the whole way home!

 

[ReluctantFarmer]

So we had another calf three days ago from one of our two pregnant heifers. She had no apparent problems and we have a healthy hungry girl (first pic). I was headed back to the house from the top pasture, and I notice the other heifer off by herself headed towards the woods. I looked where she was headed, lo and behold we had another calf! Both heifers had no problems Praise the Lord!!!

Unless the vet misdiagnosed, we are done with spring calving! I’m fairly certain we have 4 girls and 1 boy all born within a four week span.