Spring!

It's such a wonderful time on a farm - Spring. The garden is getting planted, the kids have dug their flip-flops out of the closet, the cows LOVE to go out on their picket lines and have fresh grass,
AND CALVES ARE BORN!

I can't believe I haven't told all you yet! Tuesday morning Mom came down to my room at 6ish and told me Maybel was having her calf. I got up and went out and about an hour and a half later at 7:30 the calf came out! I got pictures of the whole thing!!!! Some of the pictures aren't as good as the others. Some of them Mom took with the camera and the fuzzy ones I took with my Ipod.

It's a boy. Maybel is a Jersey and the bull (we used artificial insemination) was an Angus. So he's definitely a beef cow (technically he's not a cow but you know what I mean). We named him Stewart - Stew for short. Both Stew and Maybel are doing great. Dad had a bit of trouble last night trying to milk her. She did not like the Surge milker sitting next to her and was kicking. She was kicking everything. She kicked the milker, the gate behind her (she kicked that off it's hinges!), the milking stall. She kick the stall so hard that the part that swings open, so the cows can get into it, swung and hit Dad in the head. Thankfully Dad's alright.

The first night Dad had me bring Stew up by her head and hung the milker under her but last night he tried the longer hoses and put the milker on the ground next to him and Stew was not in her line of vision. So we might try hanging it under her again tonight. Maybe she just doesn't like it sitting in her line of vision and next to Dad.