Bottles, Bucklings and Babies

It's been kind of interesting having the little bull calf wandering the yard alongside the dogs. He couldn't seem to find the teats on mom which were very low and pendulous so we began bottle feeding. He is beginning to eat his calf starter now and chew a bit of grass so once he starts really coming for the bottle we'll turn him out to pasture with the others. We'll bottle feed him for 2 full months and then wean during the 3rd month. Since he is being bottle fed and will lose fear of us, he'll be made into a steer soon.









The cashmere bucklings are putting on their fuzz quite nicely now. They are being separated for breeding. The grey buckling is in the front pasture with Flicker, the multi-colored doe. The white buckling will be bred to the 2 white does in the back paddock.













The sheep are also separated at this point as Kayla just had her first lamb. The little ram lamb is quite handsome. They are keeping company with Martina, a moorit ewe lamb purchased around Father's Day, in the back paddock. Andes and Eve are out in the front pasture.