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Here’s Forrest and a few others tromping down a new bale of hay. He looks intimidating but this guy is a gentleman.

You can see the two week old calf in the background with her horned cow mama.

I was able to get a few more pictures of the new calf on the 28th when it was just over a day old.

On December 27th, Luna, our first heifer, calved and we now have a new addition. Unfortunately, she’s in a large paddock and somewhat wild, so we don’t know if it’s a bull or heifer yet.

We’ll have to give them a few days alone and then put them in with the rest of the herd so Luna doesn’t gore anybody.

It’s doing well so far and she’s a great mother. Unfortunately, she is a little wild and we’ll likely sell her after the calf is weaned as we focus on polled, gentle, easy to manage cattle for our farm.

I built a scratching playground for the cows to rub on. It gets a lot of use so I have to fill the area around it with hog fuel to prevent mud accumulation.

We started feeding round bales to the herd last week and they appreciate it. We unroll the bales (as well as we can) with the tractor and the cows do the rest.

Time to get a round bale un-roller for the tractor.

I caught them resting in a circle of hay. Great photo.

We bought Rusty and Luna in April of 2019 as our first cows. Check out the difference in size from April to November!

That is a huge change in 7 months.

We bought and stacked 100 bales of 2nd cutting Timothy today. Thanks to Premium Quality Hay and Feed for the hay and delivery.

This is horse hay, but since we have both horses and cows, I haven’t wanted to get separate hay. It would be much cheaper to buy cow hay so I’m probably going to start buying round bales for them now that we’re down to one horse.

It’s always a good experience turning cows out onto a new pasture. They usually run and play like you’d never think cows could. After they get a chance to finish exploring, they typically settle down and eat the best grass off the pasture.

This is our new bull, Forrest, with the two new cows, Sundance (black) and Ruby (red). They are settling in well after a week in a new place.

We picked up 6 more head of Dexter cattle on Saturday. Two bulls, two cows, two heifers. We needed a replacement bull for the one we have now as he’s a bit too feisty to be safe, and he has horns. The new cattle are all polled (without horns) and are or will be registered shortly.

The big bull is laying down there on the right between the two calves. One calf is also a bull.

Time to get more fencing up and schedule the old bull (Rusty) for butchering.