Mooooooo!

Last week was insanely busy, but awesome just the same one reason being the kids got to pick out their calves Andrew is over. the. moon. excited! Actually I'm not really even sure if that is accurate enough. Faith is excited too, but Andrew lives for cows. And a Holstein? are you kidding me?! Faith's calf just happened to be born on her birthday, this past year, so she's excited about that and thinks it's pretty cool. This is her below.

And here is Andrew's calf, she was born in March, so she's not too much younger than the other one but this way they don't have to compete against each other in the 4-H shows.

One very happy boy. In fact on the way to the farm Faith asked how he was going to choose, his answer was "The calf is just going to walk up to me and I to it, that's how we work." Any questions?

Of calves and steers... part two

Well, here they are, the pictures I'd promised I post. Turns out it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and totally manageable. She had 4 bulls if I remember and we could only do two because the other boys were......well..... endowed.

This is me holding one of the bulls; I love the look on the face of the other one...
Here we are getting down to business.

Again, holding the bull. Check out what she's got in her hand!

Getting down to business on the business end of a bull.

Another thing I never thought I'd do, but glad I had and took the opportunity to try it.

Of calves and steers...

Guess what?! A friend of mine asked me to come help her castrate her bull calves tomorrow night. I'm just going to hold them because I've never done it but I'm willing to learn and I'm SO excited about it! "It's gonna be a good day Tater!"