An Overdue Update.

Bucky Barnes

     Hello again, wandering reader!
     First off, I have successfully managed to kill off all my lovely goldfish. Clever me. xD
     Now, I have some more sad news. On the 10th of May, five days after his second birthday, we lost our horse Tarquin to colic.
     And lastly, we're done calving! (We have been for some time now) Jeanie had a little red guy named Bucky Barnes. Isn't he just ADORABLE?????? :O

Working Cattle

The sortation of the cows and calves

Hope's new ear tag

     Hey there! I just found this draft and realized I never posted it... oh dear. This isn't exactly new news, but it might be interesting so here ya go. ;) 

4/24/14

     Greetings and Salutations! To anyone reading this, congratulations! You weren't gusted off the face of the planet this past week, and that's quite an accomplishment. It's calmed down a whale of a lot here, and we even got a half inch of rain a few days ago! Yay God!
     My real purpose of this post, though, is to tell you that we worked cows last week, and explain our process.
     The first thing we did was run all the cattle up into the corrals and sort the cows from the calves. We ran the cows up the lane and gave them a shot for respiratory and reproductive diseases. Sherrill and Hope had lost their identification tags so we 're-installed' them while we were at it.

A horn bump on Radagast

     Once the cows were all done (and lunch was eaten) we stared on the calves! Farm Boy pushed calves up the lane and into the squeeze-chute where we caught the heads in the head catcher. Dad gave them two shots, one for diarrhea and one for respiratory viruses. Then Farm Boy would feel for horns, something we haven't done in at least ten years due to our lack of a hereford bull. That's one of the best jobs because it entails rubbing all the adorable fuzzy heads. C: If the calf had horn bumps, Dad dehorned them with the appropriately named dehorner. It doesn't actually remove the horns, but stops them from growing more. After that, the calf was done! We'd let them out into one of two pens depending on what pasture they went to, and move on to the next calf.
     Everything went smoothly, for which we were very grateful!

Pictures and Pescado :D

Sven and Bofur

Bofur

     Okay, okay, so I didn't post last night. Nanny McPhee trumped blogging. :) But I will now do the delightful deed!

Comet

Farm Boy and le horses

     Speaking of Sven, even though we weren't, our new bull is still not 'named' but we've been calling him Sven for awhile and old habits die hard. So unless something drastic happens, I believe his name is Sven.

Elliot

Donut

     In other news, we had a day at the sale barn recently. We sold Dark Chocolate, the mother of the calf who died, and Jack Sparrow, my bucket calf. Farm Boy and I dropped them off and watched the cow sell She sold better than most of the cows we saw! :)

[l-r] Dark Chocolate and Jack

     And now, a fantastic announcement! Hope calved! *loud clapping from audience*

Chauncey Perrier and unnamed

     My final news is that we got fish :) Their names wouldn't fit on the caption, so here they are, from left to right: Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando the Bloomin' Axe, Undecided (possibly Evangeline Lily or A.J. Michalka), and Johnny Depp. We also have a black moor we couldn't get a good picture of. It is of yet, still unnamed.
     Well, I believe that's it. I hope you enjoy the pictures, and don't forget to remember today, the Best Friday of all!

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn 

the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:17

 

An Abject Post

     I apologize for leaving you in the lurch for a bit there. Very bad of me, I know. :P Here is a list of all our calves so far, minus the one born a half hour ago to Joaan! I will try an post pictures after supper, but I must go plant potatoes! :)

Cow#	Calf#	DOB	Sex	Color	Name
04	51	3/1	M	B	Franz Lishp
988	52	3/7	M	B	Donut
240	476	3/8	F	B	Elsa
861	53	3/9	M	B	KJ 53
864	477	3/10	F	BB	Songbreeze
468	478	3/10	F	BB	Daguerreo
097	479	3/13	F	RH	Eep
859	480	3/14	F	BW	died 3/19
181	54	3/14	M	BH	Bard the Bowman
989	55	3/15	M	BW	Elliot
09	56	3/15	M	BB	E.T. Brute
0075	481	3/16	F	BW	Kinza
634	482	3/17	F	B	Psyche
747	57	3/17	M	B	Maewyn Succat
743	483	3/17	F	BB	Absolutely Alice
863	484	3/18	F	BW
016	485	3/18	F	BW
251	486	3/18	F	B	Sarobando
740	58	3/20	M	BW	Tony Noodles
985	59	3/21	M	BW	Oswald
862	480	3/23	F	B
742	487	3/23	F	BB	Lovely
099	60	3/24	M	RW	Radagast
622	62	3/25	M	BW	Davie
986	488	3/26	F	BB
977	489	3/27	F	B	Anastasia
247	490	3/28	F	B	Bella Oscuro
869	61	4/2	M	BH	Sampson
Hope	63	4/5	M	BB	Armitage Janglur Short
982	64	4/7	M	BW
134	491	4/8	F
460	492	4/10	F	BW
06	65	4/11	M	BW
126	66	4/12	M	BW
125	493	4/15	F	BW
07	67	4/16	M

A Gust of Good News

The new bull

     The wind has come on in full force today, and brought a bull with it!
     Okay, that isn't quite true. The bull was driven here in a trailer, but nevertheless he is here! We purchased him to replace Mario who was getting to be rather elderly. He is just a year old so he's still small and doesn't have the big muscular neck yet. No name has been decided on, but I'll keep you posted! (Haha, get it?)

Davie

Milking le cow

     To step back in time for a moment, last night we welcomed a new calf! One of our cows, Kate, was taking a noticeably long time to calve. We thought we might need to pull her calf so we ran her up in the corrals. To our relief she got it out by herself, a chunk of a guy named Davie.

E.T. Brute

Jasmine's calf and Lovely

     My last bit of news pertains to our cow Squeaky. Her bag was swollen up with so much milk that her calf couldn't nurse. This morning we milked her until it was a size her calf could manage. The milk will be put in the freezer in case we have an orphaned calf. That way we can give it some real milk instead of powdered milk replacer.

Oswald and Alice and E.T. Oh my!

Absolutely Alice

Brownie 

Jasmine and calf!

Kinza

E.T. Brute

Lego's calf

Oswald

Squeaky and calf

     This just in! We have a new red calf! *loud cheering* It's a boy, who is of yet, still unnamed. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
     First, Lego had a boy who is just adorable! Heidi also had a boy who is named Oswald. Natalie had a girl, who is technically unnamed, but I'm calling her Brownie until she is. Squeaky had a girl also, and then Jasmine had the li'l red guy!

Songbreeze

     I also have a bit of sad news. Dark Chocolate's calf, 480, died on the 21st. We don't know why; sometimes they just don't make it. When this happens we generally reuse their identification numbers, so 480 was assigned to Natalie's calf.
     And now a naming update! Erica's calf was named E.T. Brute because he was born on the Ides of March. Abigail's calf was named Kinza from Patricia St. John's Star of Light. Lastly, Lena's calf was named... Absolutely Alice! (To be said with a lisp and British accent) ;)

     Oh! I almost forgot! We've had some success in our bovinical public relations. A few days ago, FarmBoy and I went out to the shed. We like to try and sneak in to watch all the calves snooze. Plus, sometimes they come over and sniff us, which is the best thing ever! Their cuteness is just so.. cute! Well, Psyche decided to take it to a new level. She came over and sniffed FarmBoy and then started chewing on his shoes! It was pretty adorable. C:

     We have three more calves! Already! :D
     Also, we finally put straw down in the calves' shed.

Mother	Gender	Calf	Calf ID#
Cinderella	Female	Unnamed	484
Emily	Female	Unnamed	485
High Rhulain	Female	Sarobando	486

Emily's calf

Cinderella's calf

Bard in the shed

Sarobando

Calves Galore!

Daguerreo

Bard the Bowman!

Elliot

Eep

     Here is your cattle up date! We have quite a few unnamed because they started coming very fast and we couldn't keep up. ;) As for the reason behind some of the names, Daguerreo is named after the daguerreotype, a photographing style from the 1800's. Psyche is named after a charachter from the greek myths because she rode the wind and it's been pretty windy out here lately. Maewyn Succat was St. Patrick's original name. :D By the way, the calves are listed in order of age.

Mother	Gender	Calf	Calf ID#
Henry	Male	Franz Lishp	51
Sherrill	Male	Donut	52
Whatever	Female	Elsa	476
Cassandra	Male	KJ 53	53
Eve	Female	Songbreeze	477
Rosie	Female	Daguerreo	478
Amanda	Female	Eep	479
Dark Chocolate	Female	Unnamed	480
Charity	Male	Bard the Bowman	54
Carly	Male	Elliot	55
Erica	Male	Unnamed	56
Abigail	Female	Unnamed	481
Jemima	Female	Psyche	482
Connie	Male	Maewyn Succat	57
Lena	Female	Unnamed	483

Donut

Eep photobombing C:

KJ 53

Maewyn Succat

Abigail's calf

Dark Chocolate's calf

Psyche

The Ides of March (plus two)

     Happy St. Patrick's day! To celebrate this occasion, here is great telling of the story of St. Patrick.  

    We do have new calves, but I sha'nt post about them until tomorrow when I have pictures. :)

A Hereford Calf!!!!!

     Our first red calf is here!!! :O Huzzah! She was born yesterday at noonish to Amanda Evora. As you can see by the pictures, she's absolutely adorable! We named her Eep because we had watched the Croods recently and that was the sound we made when we saw her. :)

Update an pictures :D

478 Unnamed

Elsa

     We're up to six calves! Her is a handy-dandy list of names and such. :D

Mother	Gender	Calf	Calf ID#
Henry	Male	Franz Lishp	51
Sherrill	Male	Unnamed	52
Whatever	Female	Elsa	476
Cassandra	Male	KJ 53	53
Eve	Female	Unnamed	477
Rosie	Female	Unnamed	478

Cassandra and KJ 53

Franz Lishp

477 Unnamed

52 Unnamed