Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2008 18:26:09 GMT -5
They arrived last Friday but I only got to getting pictures uploaded today. I found a young heifer on the Dallas craigslist and wound up arranging for a shipper to bring her to me in Albuquerque. Meanwhile, I'd been watching wingman's Chloe on the auction barn and realized that my shipper would be passing right by there so I just HAD to inquire as to her pregnancy status. She came back bred and the timing just worked out that the shipper was able to pick her up as well! So CALPC struck before I even got my first dairy cow!
It's been a wild few days around here with the new girls getting to know the rest of the herd. The heifer (who I named Reina {Spanish for "queen"}) went into heat just a day after she arrived so we kept her away from Fin, our mini jersey bull, until she was done (we hope!). Then yesterday we had 2 inches of rain which has made a muddy mess of everything and contributed to an explosion of flies. We're not used to so much rain around here!
Reina is so sweet! She was a show calf for a teenage girl so she is very well trained. While she was in isolation from the herd I brought her around to a few different places on the farm that needed mowing. Here she is in the patch of grass in front of our house that we call the lawn.
She's so calm that even my son can hold her.
We were able to fence her into a portion of the driveway that needed weeding and she did a great job.
Here's her beautiful face
Here's Chloe with the herd behind her
Chloe with Fin. Gee, I think Chloe will have to go visit the neighbor's angus bull for her next breeding! Or maybe she'll stand in the ditch so Fin can reach her
The entire herd with our house in the background. In addition to our animals, we are also boarding a red angus heifer for the next month for stud service from Fin. That makes 7 head of cattle on the farm at the moment! Good thing our 17 head of sheep are currently on the neighbor's pasture.
It's been a wild few days around here with the new girls getting to know the rest of the herd. The heifer (who I named Reina {Spanish for "queen"}) went into heat just a day after she arrived so we kept her away from Fin, our mini jersey bull, until she was done (we hope!). Then yesterday we had 2 inches of rain which has made a muddy mess of everything and contributed to an explosion of flies. We're not used to so much rain around here!
Reina is so sweet! She was a show calf for a teenage girl so she is very well trained. While she was in isolation from the herd I brought her around to a few different places on the farm that needed mowing. Here she is in the patch of grass in front of our house that we call the lawn.
She's so calm that even my son can hold her.
We were able to fence her into a portion of the driveway that needed weeding and she did a great job.
Here's her beautiful face
Here's Chloe with the herd behind her
Chloe with Fin. Gee, I think Chloe will have to go visit the neighbor's angus bull for her next breeding! Or maybe she'll stand in the ditch so Fin can reach her
The entire herd with our house in the background. In addition to our animals, we are also boarding a red angus heifer for the next month for stud service from Fin. That makes 7 head of cattle on the farm at the moment! Good thing our 17 head of sheep are currently on the neighbor's pasture.