It’s a Girl!

Monday, April 15, 2024
Hello friends,
              Tax Day I suppose.  Isn’t every day Tax Day?  As self-employed farmers we have to turn our taxes in by the end of February.  Fortunately, there are a lot of perks for farmers that we can take advantage of, and we rarely pay very much income tax.  Property tax, oh my that is ridiculous!  It’s like we pay rent on property that we own, and we have very few services provided.  They grade the gravel road occasionally.  Anyway, we are thankful that we only have about ¾ mile of gravel to get to our driveway.
              Our little heifer Blossom had her calf on Saturday and it’s a girl!  Whoo hoo!  Finally!  I am leaning toward calling her Violet and Bill is advocating for Lily, but either way it will be a flower.  Bonnie was convinced that it was her calf and probably fed it milk, which the calf shouldn’t have.  She needs momma’s first colostrum!  We milked Blossom and made a bottle for “Violet”, but she wasn’t interested.  Too full.  We saved the precious colostrum and warmed up the bottle Sunday morning.  Then she drank it right down.  They HAVE to have colostrum, or they literally could die.  I have farmers stop by occasionally asking for it when they have a cow die and they have to bottle feed the calf, but they need colostrum first!…