[daveh]

My Shetland Abigail calved yesterday. A proud mum shows off her calf to a crowd of admiring Cotswolds.

Regards, David

[Rosemary]

Lovely! I take it the birth was trouble free in good Shetland style?

How many cattle do you have? Is thsi her first calf?

 

[SallyintNorth]

Lovely cow  and super calf

The sheep look well, too!   

[Rosemary]

It's a strange old world when the sheep are bigger than athe calf and almost as big as the cow 

[Bionic]

Lovely calf. He looks to be as interested in the sheep as they are in him 

[Buttermilk]

Nice cow.

[daveh]

It was a trouble free birth as far as we know. We were not there at the time as we had gone off to buy a Castlemilk Moorit ram. When we found them both, mum was gently talking to her calf who had been licked dry and was wandering about. It was her, and our, first time. The birth was a trifle unexpected as it was only 276 days since the bull, Lincwold Lowden, arrived. She must have made herself available on the day he arrived! We have another three heifers/cows who are due over the next week or so.

Regards, David

[daveh]

More pictures showing the Cotswolds and the new CMM ram that caused us to miss the birth.

[Rosemary]

Lincwold Lowden, arrived.

Was he Dianne and Alan Yarker's bull?

Good luck with the rest and more pics in due course.

Have you decided what to call the heifer?

[Kimbo]

oooh Dave...lovely chook!

[daveh]

If you like Vorwerks, I have a picture of different one.

[Bionic]

Awww, look at those cute babies 

[daveh]

Rosemary,

Yes, Lowden is the Yarker's bull. They very kindly loaned him to us. He obviously enjoyed his holiday! We are probably going to call the calf Boarshill Ermintrude.

If you think my Cotswold ewes are big you may like to see a picture of one of my Cotswold ewe lambs born mid February this year.

Regards, Dave

[Bionic]

They look fabulous. Do you sell their fleece?

[daveh]

Bionic asked:

They look fabulous. Do you sell their fleece?

Well, I would if I had a buyer. This year they all went to the wool marketing board. We ran out of time to do any marketing. I had 18 fleeces in a wool sack that went to the collection depot. The sack was not full and the chap receiving the fleeces could not believe how heavy the sack was. It weighed 91 kilos. I will leave you to work out the average fleece weight. The attached picture shows our new Castlemilk Moorit ram making sure that the Cotswold castrate is not going to make his day by suddenly changing into a girlie.