New Bull Calf Pictures

Well other than the gender and the color, I can't tell ya much more so I'll let the photos do the talking....worth a thousand words, right?
Like I said she is back in the back of the pasture still , just came up for water, so I snapped a few of him. He is a cutey!

New Calf, New Fence and Some New Rain!

Lot's of new stuff happening around here these last few weeks, sit down, have a cold drink and lemme tell ya about it.

First off I've been goat proofing a pasture so they will have some more area to hang out in, its probably about three acres though I haven't walked it off yet. I say I but the whole family has been in on the work, and its been in the hi 90's. We had some barbed wire up already, but anyone with goats knows...barbed wire doesn't cut it. So we used some 32 inch high field fence to cover the bottom half of the fence , and so far it seems to be working. So this will make three different pastures for the goats to use, pasture rotation is the way to go.

As for the rain, we have had about four days where it has rained a little bit, Not nearly as much as we need, but rain none the less. The temps also stay lower during the cloud cover , so that's a plus!

New Calf News:
We have a Dexter cow that has been on baby watch for a week now, and today was finally the day, I walked out back and saw her way across the pasture, looked like she had a little brown dog chasing her. I had to get the binoculars out to make sure, my eyes aint what they used to be! Sure enough, little brown calf! My lovely wife Cathy braved a little downpour that we had this afternoon to go out and see if she could get a gender check....she advised looked like a bull calf. That makes 2 for 3 bull calves fer that particular Dexter...keeps the freezer full anyway!

Sorry folks as of this posting we don't have pix of the new calf, check back tomorrow!

Pasture Rotation

Its been a few days since I've put up a new post, had to get computer access back, ours went kablooey. So sorry for the long stretch of silence, lol like there are millions of readers out there.
Anyway on to the news!

We did a little pasture rotation this weekend, we moved about six goats to a new pasture with the other goats. These last six were being milked and one had two kids on her so we kept them separated. The pasture that they came from will now just sit for a few months to allow it to rest and rebuild, it needs it. In the mean time, we will mend fence, or whatever need to happen in that field while the animals are away.

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July!!