Cute Little Calf
We had the darling-est little calf born on our farm yesterday! It was born 25 days early. (In case you didn’t know, a cow’s gestation is normally 282 days.) Normally we move the pregnant heifers to another pen before they have their calves so they can be under a roof and in thick straw but this little gal was born before we had her mama moved. She is doing very well. We needed to borrow a goat nipple from a neighbor to feed it as our regular calf bottle nipple was too large. The normal birth weight for our calves is 70-90 pounds but this calf only weighs 27.6 pounds. It is dark brown and is very cute.