Monday, January 18, 2010

Coal..........

Our December calf, Coal, was a month old on January 10th. He's healthy and growing well and I'm pleased with his progress. This calf has added weight quicker than the last two calves from this cow/bull combination. I expected him to be blockier as the last two calves were heifers and were built more like the cow. This calf is definitely built more like the bull.
I weaned him off the cow today and started him on the cow's milk with a bottle. He wasn't happy about that but he was getting pretty rough on the cow's bag. He's eating hay and drinking water and will get the cow's milk until he's six months old. The cow was happy to be outside all day, eating on the round bale whenever she felt like it. She filled the milking machine tonight :)

We clean the calf out in the morning while the cow is being milked. Coal enjoys the attention ~ what he really enjoys is getting a fresh bag of shavings. He makes a game out of it. Tom put the bag in yesterday and before he could open it, Coal was pushing it around with his head. Before long it was open and he was spreading them all around the stall with his head :) He spins and twirls and gets them all over himself. It's so much fun to watch - he feels so good and seems such a happy little creature.


He was more than happy to offer a smooch when he was finished with his game :) Once the weather moderates a little, we will put him out for a while during the day with the ewes in their yard by the barn. He's been introduced to the halter ~ he was a little big for the calf halter and a little small for the yearling halter. Once we find one to fit we will start halter training him.

Another twelve inches of snow landed here today. We spent the entire day moving it and cleaning up after the storm. All I can say is thank GOD for our tractor/snow blower. We would be shoveling for three days to get it all moved. We exceeded the snow total for last January's totals. Another half of foot expected tomorrow. Turning out to be a snowy new year!

29 comments:

Unknown said...

What a healthy happy boy. Thanks for the great pictures!

Candy Duell said...

He is so cute, I love the pictures of him with the shavings.

We only got a few inches of the snow that dumped a foot on your area. I am waiting for a big storm, we have not had one yet.

lisa said...

Now that is a nice looking calf! We are only getting an inch or two and then some will melt and then we get another inch or so like today but yet still above freezing during the day and down in the teens at night.

Throwback at Trapper Creek said...

He's an absolute doll!

IsobelleGoLightly said...

He's beautiful! I'm going to ask my lady to give me a bag of shavings to play in!

goldforestfarms.blogspot.ca said...

You say you are halter training him. Will you use him as a draught animal? Just curious why you are haltering a bull calf...4H perhaps. Maybe the answer is somewhere in your blog that I missed reading sorry if it is. Congrats on such a nice not-so-little boy!

Deb said...

Laura,
Your welcome :)

Candy,
I would love to send a big storm your way - we've had plenty for now :)

Lisa,
Thanks :) The temps are milder with the storms coming in. Supposed to be in the 40's monday and rain. Yuck!

Nita -
Thanks :)

IsobelleGoLightly,
You are adorable and I know you will have as much fun with a bag of shavings as coal does :) Thanks for visiting!

John,
I halter train all my calves, male or female. This guy will be castrated and will eventually end up in someone's freezer but they are much easier to handle if they are halter trained at an early age. I have the time and I enjoy working with them. If I had two calves the same age, I would love to hook them with a yoke and teach them to drive :)

goldforestfarms.blogspot.ca said...

Well that makes sense Deb. You do realize though that you don't need two steers right? There are single yokes that you can make yourself for a single. I looked into it myself recently. That would be a fun project but would surely eliminate some meat from the food chain! LOL

Deb said...

John,
You make a good point. Never thought of hooking him single. When I was a kid, my brother and I both started with a pair of calves, hooking them double. We sure had fun with those steers :) Back then, my Dad knew an old timer that hand made ox yokes and bows. I bet he had a single kicking around somewhere. I'm sure he's passed on by now.

goldforestfarms.blogspot.ca said...

If you look at our blog you'll see that we farm organic grains. There was an article in the latest issue of Small Farm Canada magazine that really caught my attention. What if the price of diesel doubles or triples or more!?!? What would I do? Horses make some sense, but I've spent a good deal of time around them...enough to know how dangerous they can be. Oxen make a lot of sense perhaps. Of course they are still powerful animals that have instincts that can kill you, but a little less strung than a horse. Thinking....

Most people that hook single use a regular old horse collar I believe? Tillers International do a lot of work with oxen. Found them on YouTube.

Deb said...

I think fuel costs are something people should think about all the time. We have a harness horse here that could pull our ground driven manure spreader and pretty much anything else we would need. Using oxen is a very slow operation. I'd prefer a team of drafts to a team of oxen. Having had horses most of my life, I'm comfortable around the right ones. If I didn't need to get a job done in a certain amount of time, a team of oxen would be great. They are surely strong, steady, dependable and your right, most often less high strung that a horse can be.
The horse collar idea is smart! I'll be sure to read the article and look up Tillers International on You Tube.

Joanna@BooneDocksWilcox said...

Coal is darling. Deb you captured some good shots.

DayPhoto said...

That was a delightful, fun post!

Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com

Gayle said...

That's got to be one of the cutest little bulls around! Love it! We are so cold here...wish we could have your snow..then it would be bareable.

Unknown said...

I love Coal! See what Coal does with shavings is what I do with fresh flannel sheets on my bed:)

Shula said...

I'm glad he is doing so well, the pictures of him playing in the shavings were adorable.

Callie Brady said...

I'm glad you have that snow blower too because I think you will be getting more of our storms. We are getting enough rain at our elevation that a lot of the snow is melting away. Coal and the shaving dance is pretty cute! Glad you have lots of milk now.

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