Bobby T the Dutch Belted/Holstein cross calf is only ten days old. Such a strong vigorous boy. His favourite thing is to chase dogs. It is amazing really how busy and strong these animals are right from birth and yet human babies who sit fatly at the top of the food chain are so fragile, vulnerable and dependent. Naked and squawling. No animal bawls as much as a human. We are the noisy babies.
Even though it is still way too cold, causing lots of grizzling from the human members of the farm the pasture is heaving up, growing like crazy. We have a good amount of feed now. Looking back on this month last year we had a lot of rain and a goodly amount of feed in the fields then too. So easy to forget isn’t it. Though this year the fields are definitely fuller – thicker. All the cow fertiliser is from winters and summers standing pooping in the fields is starting to have an effect. Recovery. Marvellous.
The pasture family.
This is my favourite shot this weekend. Such a beautiful group.
Today the girls and I will get back into the garden. Those weeds are creeping into the vegetable garden and if we get on top of them at this point in the season we can make our lives so much easier later in the summer.
Plus we have to get some electric fence set up so these little plonkers can get out into the fields in the daytime.
LOTS to do.
Hands.
I hope you have a lovely day too.
Love celi
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44 responses to “Ten days running”
The black and white part of your team always amuses me… with a virtual fern emblem too ☺
I love the watchful mamas with their offspring.
The pasture families image is gorgeous. Had to laugh over your observation comparing human babies and a long dependent childhood to that of other animals.
Can you IMAGINE what would happen if our babies were born able to stand and run that quickly! Maybe there were … once upon a time … and only those who could NOT and had to stay close to their moms survived. Ha!
Love how Ton matches the Dutch Belted cows!
I believe all of the squaling is the luxury of being at the top of the food chain – none of the squaling human babies were discovered by predators end eaten like a calf or chick or lamb would be (and lambs cry more than many others.)
Yes you are right – lambs ARE pretty noisy.. c
I want to pinch those plonkers bums. And Bobby T is just gorgeous! SO glossy!
Bobby T is cute. Maybe he thinks he’s a dog?