WhirldWorks Farm
A small homestead and Debouillet sheep farm in Central Texas
Our First Calf
In these crazy times of ours there are still moments of beauty and amazement. I will try to catch up on all the fun and wonderful times we’ve been having on the farm even in the midst of this terrible pandemic. For now though, I wanted to make a special post announcing the arrival of our first calf this morning.
We now have a few years of lambing under our belt, but the prospect of bringing a new calf into our lives has been something that has brought us some uncertainty. The sheep have been so easy and we’ve never had to intervene. We have heard many stories of difficulties cows can have during birth.
Due to this we have been keeping a very close watch on Ada, the cow. We were pretty sure yesterday that calf day was very close. I checked on her several times and tried, without success, to keep the guardian dogs out of her pasture.
This morning we checked on her first thing, but no calf. We got the boys up, dressed, and began making breakfast. Before we ate I ran out for one more check. There, standing next to Ada, was her brand new baby boy! It was such an exciting moment we left the start of breakfast on the counter and everyone rushed out to see the new addituon to our farm.
He’s a big, strong British White calf whi, for now, is just as frindly and sweet as his momma.
WhirldWorks Farm 
So awesome!!!! are you going to milk?
More than likely yes. Hopefully it works out better than when we tried milking our goats.
I’m sorry I just saw this comment:) It’s been a looooong summer lol. We did try to milk the cow a couple of times but we will need some sort of confined space for it to work. It’s actually quite difficult and I think we would need a good bit of practice before we are good at it.
Aww, welcome to the world, little life!
Thanks! He’s really fun to have around, at least as long as he is somewhat little ;P.