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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« on: May 23, 2014, 03:10:04 pm »
According to "the chart" and the date the bull went in with the cows, the earliest we could expect a calf was yesterday. I've been working on Gathering stuff all morning, went out to g to the post office at lunchtime, heard mooing and went for a look.

And Blizzard (obviously a bit of a trollop) had produced a nice bull calf. After last year, I am strictly hands off - he looks dim but I'm confident that Blizzard will sort him out. She sure loves him  :love:

I don't think Annie is far away either - she's very pawky today. The vet said he thought they were all due about the same time when he scanned them.

Anyway, here's Hamish.

kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 04:57:42 pm »
Hamish has got a white crow on his back, how unique is that. Little beauty  :cow:

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2014, 05:49:47 pm »
What a little cutie  :thumbsup:

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 06:20:43 pm »
is he one of the first shetlands to be born in australia? is that why hes upside down??  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2014, 06:24:23 pm »
Just lovely.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2014, 06:25:36 pm »
Even upside down I can see he's a cracker!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Templelands

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Strathaven, South Lanarkshire
    • Templeland Cottage
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2014, 07:28:25 pm »
Aw! Cutey!

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2014, 08:48:35 pm »
 :thumbsup:
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2014, 07:16:37 am »
is he one of the first shetlands to be born in australia? is that why hes upside down??  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

 ;D ;D ;D I will try and sort that. It looks the right way up before I click "post"

Louise Gaunt

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2014, 09:13:59 am »
He is lovely, which ever way up he is! The photo does invert to put him the right way up when you click on the image.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2014, 09:29:19 am »
He was galloping round the field at 6am this morning, with his mum following, mooing anxiously. And Blizz is built more for comfort than speed, poor girl. He was leading her a merry dance  ;D

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2014, 09:29:59 am »
The photo does invert to put him the right way up when you click on the image.

Not on my laptop, it doesn't.  And it's not just upside down, its back to front, I think - at least compared to the one on FB it is.

Either way, or any way!, he is lovely, yes!   ;D
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Our first Shetland calf of 2014
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2014, 06:01:57 pm »
He looks lovely, I hoPe all goes well. :wave:
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