It would be nice if they made a cow pregnancy test where you could just stick the little plastic indicator under the cow’s urine flow and have it read the cow baby hormone in about 30 seconds. I mean, really, how hard…
Category: Cattle
Farm Boys Gathering Hay for the Winter
I hope to pick up farm blogging again. So much has happened around here. The biggest change we’ve been dealing with is learning how to adjust with 9 children. Our little newborn baby is beautiful and with that wonderful package comes 24/7…
2010 Spring Time on the Farm
It isn’t a understatement that we have been swamped with activity here on the farm. This year has brought us many changes….many good changes for our family and we are starting to feel like we are gaining traction once again.…
Tex on Tex
Talk about a cowboy. Here we have Tex the son in the cowboy hat, riding on Tex, mommom’s freezer beef. The stated idea was to use a cow to round up the cows. I’m not so sure that worked well.…
Milk and Meat Cows, Pigs, Eggs and Boys
We love May the Milk Cow. She has a bull calf that is about 6 weeks old now. They are doing wonderfully. We have an abundance of winter milk for which we are all thankful for. Having that milk drastically…
Middle Tennessee Agrarian life in the Fall!
In case you have been wondering where we went…we’re still here. I amazed at how busy life is. Fall is already here in full swing and it is absolutely amazingly gorgeous outside. Every year, I stand in awe at the amazing…
Calves For Sale
We have a little side business we wanted to let you all know about. For the past couple months, we have been buying and selling dairy bulls and having quite a lot of fun in the process. We have made…
The Guernsey Dairy
We do not have a mature dairy bull on our farm. We have been told by those more experienced than we, that dairy bulls are the most dangerous farm animal around. We do however have a bunch of bull calves here…
More Cow Talk
Our boys are raising a cow for their grandparents. They named him Tex. They have been bottle feeding him for a while now and he is finally weaned! He weaned from the bottle last week…he still likes Havala’s ear. I am sympathetic to the…
Introducing Havala
Baby calves are so enjoyable to have around on the farm. We love watching them romp and play. Here’s one of our baby cows named Havala. Here, Hava is chasing our 8 year old as he makes his way over…
Teaching Children Responsibility and Work Ethic
One fact that we quickly learned after we moved to the farm is that children can do more work than what you think. It’s amazing how helpful they can be…when required to. Our children are full of energy. The trick is…
Farm Life: Boys, Calves, and Cowboy Boots
This has to be one of my favorite elements of the farm… young men with chores. Of course they don’t look like they are having too bad of a time. embedded by Embedded Video
WHOAHHHH…Slow down there….
We’re trying too. We just realized it has been almost two weeks since we posted. For shame. Good thing the blog doesn’t require water or feed, doesn’t need it’s pen moved to a fresh green patch, doesn’t need a bottle or…
MomMom’s Cow
…been busy…feeding their MomMom’s (grandma’s) calf… We have found that bottle feeding calves is sort of like bottle feeding a lamb or goat, only a baby cow is really a big animal to be so “little” , ya know, and is only…
Calf Chasing
We have a new exercise…it’s called calf chasing. You can join us every morning and evening if you like. It’s what you do when you buy a bull calf that does not like you. This only looks like a leisurely…