Kids and Kunes

This title is a little misleading.  I took the kids in to visit with the kunes but they studiously ignored each other.  There was no  Kids ‘And’  Kunes at all. The pigs were on one side and the goats on the other. 

I am still working on the field. No sooner do I plug a hole up than they run to the next one calling: This one Miss c! We can get out this one!  I will be done today though.  I think. 

What a lovely day we had yesterday. A little bit of farming. A little bit of gardening.  Milking. Bread making. Curry making (I am getting to the bottom of the freezer – curries are the name of the game now).  Still feeding hay out but the cows were on pasture all afternoon. Some cloud. Some sun. Not too hot. Though Naomi got a bit hot. She was panting in her black coat. Her mother is not very clever about where she leaves her. So I picked her up and carried her all the way back to the cool of the barn and she is definitely putting on weight. Lady Astor just plodding along behind in a very lazy fashion. She does not mind me handling her calf at all. Naomi is definitely going to be a House Cow with such a laid back mother.

Elsie (bless her mad little heart) and Potter are now for sale. Here is why.

1. Elsie refuses to be milked and she was brought to be a milk cow. I cannot use her as a nurse cow either  – she is too highly strung and dangerous at times.

2. We were granted two heifers this year. I do not need two more heifers. So a heifer is for sale so I can buy a steerfor the freezer.  I just don’t need that many milk cows. A little revenue is good.  I can sell Elsie with the calf at heel so they will go to their new home together. They are both pure bred Dutch Belted even though they have no belts so we will find them good homes.

4. To AI this cow will be a real battle, she needs someone with a bull not a Vet and a straw. .

5. I am not a zoo. I grow food. I cannot afford to keep a cow just because I admire her spunk.

6. The most important reason. My land cannot sustain keeping this many cows.  I am a little farm. Not a feedlot. Protecting and Improving the land I have is of critical importance. The health of the land must take precedence.

Thank goodness I bought Lady A as well. If I  only had Elsie as the mother ship we would have had a milk-less summer.

Lady Astors milk is still in the transition stage between Colostrum and Clean White Milk.  I am SO looking forward to tasting her milk.

Almost got the shot of Godot! 

The hay field is growing. Ready for another round?

I hope you have a lovely day.

Your friend on the farm

celi