Little Bitty Calf. While calves tend to run the 60-90 pound range when they’re born, you’ll have ones that bust the average one way or another. This little girl did. She’s a tiny forty pounds. She’s doing well enough. We wondered if she was a twin, but, no… Her mom is no giant either… The…
Category: Animals
Cycle Again
Finally, we’re starting to get some babies! I know, soon enough we’ll be on the other end of the spectrum… but we are all happy to see the calves hit the ground. As with anything, there’s more details behind the scenes. The heifers get fresh bedding every few days. Those who have calved get fed…
Tomorrow
Daniel’s little herd has calved, and two days ago, the one cow that Vernon and I own privately calved as well. Yay! Isn’t she cute? Yes, she has shelter and dry ground to lay on, but I guess the snow wasn’t that bad with the 40* temperature. Our heifers are due to start calving on…
Epic
This photo was from Wednesday amid the cold and snow… Today was forty degrees above zero with a brilliant blue sky. Wyoming’s mood swings can be epic. Nevertheless, Vernon is still out there, feeding cows every day. (I’d show you that if my camera would just talk to my iPad. Seriously, do they not realize…
Tasty
Our nice and sunny is headed for nasty and cloudy, AGAIN. Storms and the resulting changes in air pressure can bring on labor. Even though the majority of our heifers should calve starting the 27th of February, weather and low birthweight bulls (used on our heifers for ease in calving their first babies) can slightly…
Action
More photos from yesterday… (I still couldn’t get them to download to my iPad, but a direct line to my desktop works, so I did manage to save these photos…) Indy and Bravo run alongside each other trying to catch up to the herd. We are all on four wheelers or side by side, the…
Getting Close
I’m having problems downloading photos off my camera… but the dogs and I helped bring the heifers up close to the calving shed in preparation for calving season today. We peeled off 37 cows that were with them and took them to a field. It’s amazingly awesome when the cows know where to go and…
Gathering Deadline
Today I was going to watch the grandkids while everyone else was going to gather the cows from the badlands. Jaxon was a bit under the weather, his mom keeping all of her kids home, so I ended up with only Lorelei. Quinlan had decided to cowboy. Lorelei and I began to tackle an old…
More Just Because
Tess and I just had to take baby reindeer pictures this year… We’re not the first ones to do it by far. Which led into my chicken bow pictures and I’m going to stick a Santa hat on Indy to make a trio. Tess’s milk cow, Petunia, calved and her calf is Nick. His daddy…
Yay
Update on Little Bitty. She made it through the night, though I really didn’t expect her to. She’s eaten and drank and things look good. Yay!
House Chicken
I had to move my chicks out to the coop today… They needed more room, they were making a dusty mess of my mud room, and the scent that lingered in the mud room was not the least Christmas-y. I worked on a conglomeration of wire dog crates and cardboard. They must be apart from…
Menagerie
Ugly/Cute plus 8 days… looking more Phyllis Diller-ish to me. While the big white tops are getting all the attention, there are some others with suspicious topknots as well. What a menagerie…. So long as they lay eggs, they can look however, I guess!