Wow! It has been a while since I last blogged but I always say I'm a 'lazy' blogger! It has been a very busy February and March! First off Curly Horns had a beautiful bull calf whom I named 'Lil black Sambo' on the 17 Feb. so I started to hand milk (which I truly suck at) then on the Feb. 27 Petula the witch birthed a tiny little heifer who we called Shaylee which means 'Fairy princess of the fields'. So now I had to milk in earnest! I was able to get old CH to 'adolpt' Shaylee which was a great help but the witch Petula having never been milked became somewhat of a trial. I have to put a flank rope on her at every milking and I even milked 3X daily until this week when I went to the regular 2X so I could have a life. Of course Roxy couldn't let those two show her up so she birthed a 'surprise' dun calf on March 7. I say 'surprise' because I suspect Roxy may have been bred by her yearling bull calf the previous year. This isn't certain because our black bull could carry that colour but it means I need to test for parentage! UGG-bad Roxy! We decided to call him Ruben and have been bottle feeding him. He lives in the garage and most times has Shyla-our Bernese mountain dog for company. Since he is a few weeks old now I put him out with the herd the other day and left him. A couple hours later when I went to check he had gone under the electric fence and was sleeping in the sun with his best friend (besides me) Shyla! 
Flossy is next to calve and then closer to the end of summer 'Typhoid Mary' is due. Why do we call her Typhoid Mary? I will save that for another post!
