Entries Tagged as 'calf'
Our new boy calf, Del (short for Delmonico), celebrated his two-week anniversary yesterday and he seems to be doing just fine. When he isn’t nursing, he’s snoozing in a pile of hay or bounding around the paddock. He likes hanging with the sheep. They’re more his size. Maybe he thinks he IS a sheep. My […]
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The big moment for our Jersey heifer Emily finally arrived Sunday afternoon. She’d become so swollen and leaky lately, she was literally spraying milk. Around 2:30 in the afternoon I noticed the first signs of tiny hooves emerging from her rear end. Half an hour later, next time I tromped out to the orchard to […]
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