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 […]
Emily, our Jersey heifer, is due to calve in less than a month and, sure enough, look at the udder she’s growing. We’ve never owned a cow before and have been a little anxious about the whole birthing and milking process. One of the tips we picked up along the way was to start early […]
With the recent warm spell, we herded the sheep up the hill to continue grazing the upper pasture. Emily, our Jersey heifer, stayed behind in the permanent paddock to make an appointment to have her hooves trimmed. She didn’t like it much, being all alone. At one point she stood in the paddock, looked up […]
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