Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

Happy Easter everyone! Hope all is well on this Resurrection Day! Here is the latest picture of Ellen. Yesterday afternoon we went down to the creek. This is her newest adventure fun. She loves to go to the creek and throw rocks into it. "SPLASH!" she will say as she throws each rock in. Then she'll turn around to get a "nar" rock to throw. Of course I have to plunk in a few as well. There is something satisfying in the "gulp-splatter" of a rock going into water. It seems like every time I take her picture she looks so different; so much less like a baby and more like a little girl. They change so fast. We had a pretty good crowd in church this Easter morning. Last year we set a record at 110, I am not sure what the count was for today. I told hubby we are going to have to start getting there earlier to get a seat, we have been ousted from our regular pew to the one up behind the pastor. Hubby doesn't mind, but I don't like sittin...

Here is a picture of the original blind calf from last August. She appears healthy enough and is fat and sassy, but if you look at her eyes you can see she has what appear to be gray cataracts. Every time she gets a wound of some kind it seems to get infected, so I think her immune system was compromised. I am dreading what might happen when she gets dehorned, but so far she seems to have fought off any serious illness. Hubby keeps saying he is going to try and slip her into a batch of calves we are going to sell, but he hasn't decided to sell any yet.

This is kind of an on-going thing here which I have hesitated to post about, but since my first blind calf story is still getting comments off and on, I thought I would put this in here as well. Apparently this isn't as odd as I had thought it would be; people keep Googling and finding my blind calf story and adding their own. For this reason I have added the story to my list of interesting posts. Anyway. On Thursday the 7th, I believe it was, I went up to check on the dry cows and one had a tiny little heifer calf, she was so cute. She was sitting up looking around, she looked like she had tried to stand, but she was still kind of damp. I went and checked on another cow that was in labor, but nothing there. Later that afternoon I went back; the second cow had a nice bull calf, and the heifer calf was still in the same spot, though the mama cow had gone off into the trees. This isn't unusual; mama most always comes back to her calf. She'd cleaned it up so I know she hadn...