Life on the farm

I went outside one day and Patches our cat, had managed to crawl underneath this

blanket. I thought it was so cute I had to take a picture.
John went to work in Las Vegas for 5 weeks and Josiah and I got to take care of things on the
homefront during the week. Some of the excitement during the calving season included two small heifers having their calves and needing to pull both of the calves. On the weekend that John went to Baltimore to transport a cake across the country, two of the heifers decided to calve. I had been to a meeting all day Saturday and when I got home and went to feed, I could tell the mom had been struggling for quite awhile and could see that the calf was not coming out! I went and asked our neighbor Jim, if he wanted to be a midwife. He thought I meant a person and wasn't too sure about helping. When he found out it was to assist a cow he came and helped. By the time he and Josiah got the calf out it was too late. It had been trying to be born for too long of a time. We got things cleaned up and two hours later I called him again for assistance with the other heifer. This one was OK.

This momma had twins. John was home for this event. Two heifers!

This little heifer was born during our windy spell two days ago. Within an hour the poor thing was chilled to the bone as they say. The mom had sort of licked it off and then walked off. John went and got it and didn't think it would live. He brought it into the house and we put a heat lamp on it and fed it. It's bedroom for the night was the bathroom...until 3:00 am and then it decided, I am out of here! John got up and took it to it's mother and mother and calf are doing fine.

This mom decided to have her calf next to the creek. When it tried to stand up it fell into the ditch. I happened to be watching her and ran out in the field and got in the ditch and got it up and moved it away from the water.

I like spring and enjoy seeing the new animals being born. Just bring on some warm weather.