Babies, and More Babies....

Well, two more of our cows have calved, so I thought I'd post some pictures of the new arrivals.

This one was born Monday......

He didn't like me taking his picture, so he ran back to mama........

And yesterday, our red cow delivered a HUGE chocolate colored bull calf. He is a doll, and he let me walk right up to him and touch him and take his picture. But he'll get over that in a day or two, then he'll run and keep up with mom....... you can see her in the background, she didn't want to hang around when I got close, so she backed up, LOL......

He is as big as a couple of our calves that are 2-3 weeks old!..........

What a face!!.............

More pictures of Sonny and Mr. T at suppertime yesterday.........

Can we eat now??

Sonny.....giving me the "whatcha doing....are you trying to catch me?" look......

Well, that's all for now, I am tired and dirty, I have worked in the garden and yard all morning, so I'm gonna take a shower and rest before time to start supper and go out and feed.

Have a great afternoon everyone!

We have a new baby........

Is this not the cutest face you have ever seen?

We have been expecting this little girl for over a week, and she finally decided to come into this world yesterday. This was her mom's first time calving so we were keeping a close eye on her...and it's a good thing we did! Being a first time mom, she didn't know what to do, she kept trying to pin the baby down and flip her over, so we put her up and worked with her until she accepted the baby. We were really afriaid she would hurt her badly or kill her, so we stayed close for about 3 hours, until she finally figured out what was going on.

She also wouldn't let the heifer nurse, so here we put her in gates and made her stand still to let the baby nurse.........

The baby is really strong and a good size for a first calf, she has a good strong suckle reflex!........

Here she is just born about 5 minutes old...........

Another shot with mom after she finally got to her feet........

Here she fell back down to rest before trying to get up and nurse......

I love it when they have these unusual face markings....it makes it so much easier to glance into the herd and see which calf goes with which cow. When they are all solid black or look the same it makes it much harder to tell them apart, LOL......

We are expecting 3 more any day now, I will try to get pictures to post of each one if possible. Everyone have a great weekend!

Update on the Twin Calves...

A week or so ago, I told about how I had a bottle baby,we had a cow that had twins. Well, we kept him up and bottle fed him for about 4 days, and then thought we would try to get the mama cow to take him back. Thankfully, it worked! She accepted him right back when we put them up in the barn, and I guess she figured she couldn't get away from him, so she let him start nursing. We are going to keep them up for awhile to ensure that she won't run off and leave him when we turn them back out, or to at least make sure he is strong enough to keep up with her if she does! I went to the barn this morning to feed them and took some pictures. We are still supplementing the bull calf with a bottle, but he is doing great. The heifer calf won't get near us, but the little bull, runs right up looking for that bottle....here he is trying to nurse on my fingers........

He figured out real quick that wasn't what he was looking for and ran back to mama and sis......the mama cow was busy eating, but she stopped occaisionally to look and swing her head at me, she wasn't too thrilled that I was there, LOL..............

Before I left, I snapped some pictures of the rest of our herd...............

One of our newest calves very curious about what I was doing......

A couple more of the girls.......

Some of the younger cows checking me out........

On my way back home, I encountered a flock of Guineas crossing the road. By the time of got my camera, they had already crossed and were moving quick, but I manged to snap a picture............several had turned to look at me I guess they were thinking about what I was gonna do next, LOL....

Hope everyone has a great day!

~DEANNA~

I've Got A New Baby......

When Terry got back from checking the cattle last night, he brought me a suprise.... a new baby. Monday night when he checked the herd, one of our cows had just delivered a heifer calf, the baby was trying to stand, mama was cleaning her off, everything looked good, etc.  He made his rounds, fed, then came back home just like usual. Well, when he went to check everybody last night, he saw this little bull calf, running around bellowing looking for anything to nurse on, LOL...Apparently the same cow delivered this little guy after the heifer, and as cattle sometimes do with twins, she only accepted the heifer and would not let the bull calf nurse. So now I have a bottle baby, and he is a cutie pie, he is a big, stout, strong guy, and takes his bottle right down without any problems. We had to give him a bottle of colostrum first thing, because we just don't know if she let him nurse to begin with, so to be on the safe side, he got the colostrum. I usually end up bottle feeding a couple every year, occasionally we will have a cow that won't have enough milk, or other problems that warrant bottle feeding. I really don't mind, I enjoy it, I love watching them run around bucking and playing.  After we wean them and they are eating good, then we turn them back out with the herd.  Here is the little guy, now I have to come up with a name.......

Here he is after his bottle...wanting more.......