We have had a little more rain and some very unseasonably cool temperatures. I think this is what the oldtimers call 'blackberry winter'. My blackberries are in bloom and it is 41° outside. I didn't plant tomatoes or peppers and they are back under the lights on the back porch.
Farm
We had an old cow with 'curly' toes (needing trimming badly) up to sell, but DH noticed she was bagging up so he turned her back to the field. The next day she returned to the barn lot and had a baby, a bull calf. I guess she felt safe out of the rain there since she had been up for some time.
She is still too thin which is another reason we had her up feeding her some grain and having hay near so she wouldn't have to graze.
The other really dark, almost black calf, belongs to Jewel the Jersey heifer. She seems to get darker weekly.
This is Willow and her fat and getting pretty sassy baby,
He has tiny scurs so I hate to pass that gene along but he is so fine, I think I will keep him as a herdsire. I am sure he is out of Willow's two year old son which is why the red gene seems dominant. That would make him .75 Milking Shorthorn which is a very good thing, only .25 Black Angus.
I had to include this one. They were in the back barn lot where Willow and calf were:
Flowers
I think I am down to just this one white salvia,
Walmart had two varieties for just $3 or $4 the other day. I intend to go back today and pick up some. They are a very carefree, long-lasting perennial here.
I need to rename this new bed The Iris Border:
This iris is actually a very rust or cinnamon brown, obviously my camera does not recognize this shade!
I had to throw this one in here since it is directly related to my living on the farm:
This was taken on last milk day. I lost control of the hose during clean-up.
Farm
We had an old cow with 'curly' toes (needing trimming badly) up to sell, but DH noticed she was bagging up so he turned her back to the field. The next day she returned to the barn lot and had a baby, a bull calf. I guess she felt safe out of the rain there since she had been up for some time.
She is still too thin which is another reason we had her up feeding her some grain and having hay near so she wouldn't have to graze.
The other really dark, almost black calf, belongs to Jewel the Jersey heifer. She seems to get darker weekly.
This is Willow and her fat and getting pretty sassy baby,
He has tiny scurs so I hate to pass that gene along but he is so fine, I think I will keep him as a herdsire. I am sure he is out of Willow's two year old son which is why the red gene seems dominant. That would make him .75 Milking Shorthorn which is a very good thing, only .25 Black Angus.
I had to include this one. They were in the back barn lot where Willow and calf were:
Flowers
I think I am down to just this one white salvia,
Walmart had two varieties for just $3 or $4 the other day. I intend to go back today and pick up some. They are a very carefree, long-lasting perennial here.
I need to rename this new bed The Iris Border:
This iris is actually a very rust or cinnamon brown, obviously my camera does not recognize this shade!
I had to throw this one in here since it is directly related to my living on the farm:
This was taken on last milk day. I lost control of the hose during clean-up.
Looks like your cull cow had a nice calf! The red bull is a dandy. I kept a bull 3 years ago and there was quite a bit of inbreeding, but what great calves he threw this spring.
ReplyDeleteLast pic - I bet your socks are soaked!
Socks weren't too bad. I wear Muckboots for all things outside. This calf is just the nicest we have had in some time. I can't resist him. He is getting a little aggressive though. He will be one year in late September.
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ReplyDeleteOh the calves are too sweet, love their coloring.
Do you know when we started to rent this house were in right now, I pulled up all of the same type flowers because the colors weren't as nice as yours. They were all the terrible looking gold, and replaced them with colorful flowers. Now I think the landlord is going to have a fit when she realizes I got rid of her plants. She won't know until maybe next year this time, lol
Sandy, she may not even know what she had! or leave during fall and winter!
DeleteNice cows and calves. I am partial to reds myself.....
ReplyDeleteI like them too. We used to keep a Red Angus bull but they got very hard to find in our area.
DeleteWhat a GREAT post once again Glenda. I always love reading about life there on the farm.
ReplyDeleteWe finally got some rain, really heavy starting around 2:30 or so this morning. Then it let up around 7 and I went out to see if I could unclog gutters. They've not been done since I've been by myself and that's 17 months now. I don't like ladders, but got out the tall step ladder and had to rig a tool to try to scrap some of the debris. I got some unloaded onto the ground and hopefully loosened everything else up enough to get flowing. It's lightly raining right now, haven't had a hard enough rain to see how it is all going. I made need to get some help. :-)
Sure am thankful for the rain as we really needed it.
Enjoy the rest of your week ~ FlowerLady
Glad you got the rain, but be very careful about the ladders! I want to put gutter back but just on the porches to keep us out of a waterfall when entering or leaving during a rain . I need to check into that soon. I know neither of us will do the ladder cleaning anymore!
DeleteHope you have a wonderful weekend.
Yep, we've had rain thankfully. Even a short burst of shower with hail just about an hour ago (I'm afraid to check my plants outside in the garden). Glad you got another calf out of that cow....and to think you were about to load her up to the sale barn. Guess that will wait a while, hugh?
ReplyDeleteYep, she has a home for at least 7 more months.
DeleteSorry you got the hail; so far, that has missed us too.
We got cold last night but no frost.
Wonderful healthy looking cattle. New moms never hurt from a little extra nutrition.
ReplyDeleteWe have had rain. thank goodness. but all told this month probably fifteen inches or more.
I like Garter snakes in the garden and Kings clear of the chicken house because I have witnessed them eating a Copperhead.
I hesitate to say it out loud, but I have never seen a copperhead in the wild......at either farm. I hope to keep it that way!
DeleteHad to laugh at your soaked pants. I powerwashed the front walks last week and I looked just like that! Question. You said Willow's bull calf had "tiny scurs." What are scurs? And is tiny good or bad?
ReplyDeleteScurs are what grows where real horns would be. It means he has some genetic for horns but probably wouldn't pass real horns to his offspring. This probably goes back to a bull we bought that had scurs but no horns....I wouldn't do that again! Tiny is good, but nothing there would be better.
ReplyDelete41 is a little nippy for this time of year, Glenda!!! Willow does good work...always has!! She comes through even in her offspring...:)JP
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