Thursday, February 28, 2013

New calf on the homestead

So this Wednesday Brown Cow delivered her calf, a healthy female Jersey calf. Cow's labor was short and  with out incident. After the year of the sheep stillbirths Rosie and I get a little nervous around lambing/calfing time, that was such a horrid experience that we are kinda scared by it. But everything went smoothly and after no more than about an hour the calf was born. Within an hour of the calf being born she was standing up and walking around and nursing.

As this is a female calf we will most likely be selling her off in a few months when she is bigger and not so attached to her mom. A mixed blessing to be sure, on one hand we could use the money to pay off some of the farm's debts on the other hand we where really looking forward to home raised ribeye steaks. But maybe we will set a little of the cow money aside and go out to a ribeye steak dinner to celebrate the sale.

We have not decided on a name yet for her, any ideas?

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