Brown Cow and Baby Brown

As of yet we do not have a name for baby brown cow so we'll just give a brief description of the pregnancy and labor along with some images.

We managed to breed cow on the first time and we really feel that it helped with the whole process. We kept track of her cycles and our AI lady, Charmaine was able to come out and work her magic on May 21st. Cow took and had a smooth pregnancy. She continued to give us an insane amount of milk through out the year and we dried her off in December. We had the vet out twice, once to check to make sure she took and the second time to make sure the pregnancy was running smoothly as we've never had a bred cow on our farm. Cow kept getting bigger as the year progressed and was showing signs of near labor at the beginning of this week. We did have a couple of close calls when we thought she might be going into labor but it turned out to be false labors. At the beginning of the week cow starting showing signs of her tail lifting and her ligaments loosening. I would go in and brush her as well as scratch her. She seemed to be comforted by those small things.

I noticed cow laying down and lifting her tail and rocking back and forth. Jed noticed her back hunched with her starting to push so we both concluded that she was in active labor. The actual pushing part went by quickly with the feet coming out first and the baby shortly afterwards. Cow was soon up and cleaning up the baby. As a side note, cow has never been allowed to keep her baby as she was being used to breed miniature cows so the baby would come out and be taken away before she can make any contact with it. At first she seemed really attached, but I think she's gotten over the new mother thing. She seems to acknowledge the baby but does not follow it around. She does her thing and takes care of the baby but is not too clingy. I think it also helps that baby cow is very independent and runs around with the sheep. I think she thinks she's a sheep... that might be interesting in the future.