Lily calved!
Posted by Farmgirl Y on Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Why we weren’t at market last Wednesday (9/23/20)…while harvesting for market, we both had the urge to look at Lily and saw her bag of waters hanging out. We quickly decided that we needed to stay home. 
We knew Lily’s calving was imminent, but like human births, you never know exactly when it’s going to happen. Her due date was on the 20th and having never been a part of any animal births before, we were worried about how it would go–especially as she is a first-time mama. Thankfully, everything went smoothly. We had called out the troops (veteran dairy farmer friends) just in case it didn’t though. She gave birth to a beautiful 3/4 Jersey, 1/4 Dutch Belted heifer who we named Penelope. Yay! And double yay, now we have milk again!
Penelope is very sweet, and we hope to train her as a family cow in the future. For right now though, she is happy to frisk about the pasture. All of the sudden, it feels like we have a lot of cows as we are up to 5 bovines on the property. We have jokingly named the two gangs the White Stripes and the T-Bones.
Filed in Animal | 3 responses so far
Kristinon 02 Oct 2010 at 4:21 pm 1Beautiful! Congratulations to you all!
sue son 04 Oct 2010 at 11:45 pm 2Way cool!! Thanks for the great photos.
Hope you’re well and healthy!
love,
Sue S
Aubinon 11 Oct 2010 at 1:26 am 3Sweet! Great pictures.
Cows do tend to multiply.