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

The good, the bad, and the fantastic.

Franz Lishp

     I have two good newses and one bad, as indicated my my post title.
     The bad is that Hope lost her ear tag. Fairly minor, but still regrettable as it's kind of her trademark.
     The good news is that I finally got a picture of Franz Lishp! :D
     And the fantastic news.... Sherrill calved!!!!!! She had an all black boy who is of now unnamed.

Sherrill and her bubby :D

Franz Lishp

     You had probably deduced this already, but Henry's calf is here! I was procrastinating this post because I wanted to have a photo, but I decided to get it done.
     She gave birth to and all black boy on the first of March. He has been titled Franz Lishp in honor of the composer of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and lisps!
     In other less interesting news, we had an 'Ancient Egyptian' meal. It turned out yummy so I though I'd share the recipes for pita bread and Tiger Nut Sweets.
     That's really all that had happened here, so I will end this post. As soon as I have a picture of Franz I will post it! :D

BREAKING NEWS!

     This just in! Henry is calving! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!