The other day was 18C and snow was disappearing as fast as it could go!
Spring brings such wonderful changes! Brand new life and
the glorious feeling of sun on skin that has been bundled up for so long!
We are just delighting in watching the season change, and savoring the great anticipation of our favourite summertime activities!
Winter coats are shedding out
The landscape has come alive with birds and insects everywhere you look
Spring also brings a lot of water around here! We refer to this time of year as "the ugly time" and for a good reason too!
Matt had the neat idea of retaking this same picture of little farm Boy
and 12A (or Baldie as the little farmers call him) at the end of the
summer to see how much they have grown.
I am thrilled to be out playing with ponies once again! I had been toying with them just in a small area of the hay barn for the last few months.
Little farm girl and I took Tex for the first ride of the year and it was glorious to be back in the saddle again!
We are now 7/8th done our calving. We are just waiting on our favourite cow #9 (or Spot-nose) and our tall Simmental cross cow to calve.
The rest of the babies look excellent! I absolutely love to be able to watch them play from my kitchen window.
We go out and cow check frequently, a lot more frequently than we need to!
We train our cows to lie in numerical order...
Matt is starting to feel like a real farmer now
Little farmers watching Matt inject and tag new calves on a spring evening
Number 1l's heifer calf gets a shot of Selenium and vitamin A,E and D.
Little farmers find hundreds of ways to keep entertained
Having these cows has been something Matt has wanted since he was really little. He is loving it more than he even realized he would!
It comes very naturally to him too
Little bulls sparring. Oh, they make me laugh!
Especially when their mothers come in bellowing and break up the fight!
These calves are either playing or sleeping. It looks like it would be a lot of fun to be a calf
We also attended our first bull sale (quite an experience!) and came home with this brute!
He is really well bred, out of a bull called Economy known for calving ease, and a maternal line bred for excellent mothering ability and milk. He is pretty much exactly what we wanted as far as his Expected Progeny Differences go, and he should throw some excellent calves for us next year!
Watch out Sunny!
And its not just Matt who is realizing his dreams! I have tried with my last couple horses to teach a nice sit and I haven't been able to get one. I have been playing with this for years. I don't know if its because he is a flexible little weanling, but it sure came easily to Milo!
If I am asking him to do something more difficult, he just goes and sits himself down instead. I don't mind, its pretty cute!
