Better Beef4u

Arcadia Farm Circa 1659. Located in the heart of Kent County, Maryland, offers Happy, Grain & Pasture fed, natural, steroid-free Angus-cross Beef. No added hormones or antibiotics. Know your farm(er) and let your conscience guide your tastebuds. Stop by and visit sometime.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

1st Customer of the Season

The award goes to "Mr. Pat" with extra credit for arriving on his "Harley"!!
Funny thing is I didn't even hear him and his friend ride up! But Jared came running and screaming "we have customers!!!!!!!!"

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Cookie Lives

Short and simple; Cookie almost didn't make it.

He had a rough start, being unable to nurse only because he couldn't find it!! Simple calf!! I swear these things are just suppose to "happen" how God planned, and I guess it would have, had they been running in the prairies of wild west; Cookie would have been some vultures' dinner. However I was not about to let that happen, although I did cry my eyes out Friday morning. I just didn't want our first calf born here on the farm to die without offering some sort of help.

Cookie was born 2 weeks ago today (5/21/08). We started bottle feeding him Thursday night, by Friday morning, we assumed he was going to die! But thanks to modern medical technology and some great neighbors and a good friend who happens to be a Vet., his life was spared.

Come Monday morning, Pete got up at the crack of dawn and tore apart and re-worked our cow shoot, to put the Mama in a the headgate and then showed Cookie - just where the milk was - and he went to town! I thought he was going to suck her dry!! Of course he probably was a little thirsty - being 5 days old and not once nursed on his own.

Just amazing. Prior to that he had sucked every inch of her body and tail and head butted everywhere with no results. Not once did he think to "duck under." So Pete directed Cookie in the right direction once in the morning and once that evening, Cookie now knows where the milk comes from! Thank goodness.

Thursday evening we released Mama & Cookie out with the other mothers/calves. Cookie hasn't lost his way and they seem to be living the perfect life now.