It's not Spring yet, but life on the farm is busy, busy, busy. Our new herd is producing the first calfs from our bull, who remains unnamed at this time.
#12 aka Louise had "Crystal" (in honor of Frosty the Snowman's wife) on January 31; the kids input is very important in this naming process.
Red, because when we bot the herd her fur was definitely red, not so true now which is interesting, however she had "Frosty Valentino" on February 15; while we were in church. He's a BIG boy.
Then this past Wednesday, I discovered "Otis" outback, not exactly sure when he was born, we are guessing it was last weekend, Feb 22. It was cold and windy so we hadn't spent as much time outside so Pretty really surprised us, we knew she was expecting but we missed all the normal signs, mainly because she never appeared huge.
Now we have to wait for Ugly, I know the name seems cruel, however you'd agree :) besides the fact she tried very hard to hurt us last Spring when she had "Cookie" (who will be aka hamburger in the Fall) He's another whole story. So anyway, her name has stuck. And then #47, mother of Archie last August.
We also added two new heifers to the mix, so they should have calves in time for Christmas.
We are also awaiting the "peeps" to hatch down on the haystack, should be any day now.
Now we have the Maple Syrup business going on..... Last weekend Pete took a branch out of a maple tree and the sap started running; so Jared, our young engineer grabbed a hammer and a nail and started banging on the tree, with Mom's help we improved upon his creation and so far have gathered 3 quarts from that tap.
Now today, Pete and Jared started tapping the remaining Maple trees on the farm, now I know we're not in Vermont and the syrup may not be LLBean quality, but it's the experience that counts. So they made 5 more taps and we've got sap everywhere!
