New Life on a Homestead

I told you that Callie was expecting a calf, right? When we went to Florida, we thought she would have it while we were gone, but as it turned out, she didn't. {and we were very glad she did not}
A week after returning from our Florida adventures, when Nathan and I were out checking Callie, we found her in Labor! It was a family affair to watch Callie- poor girl. We all watched as Callie gave birth to a beautiful little calf! And since Callie's real name is Caledonia, we named her little bull, Scotland-Scottie for short :)
And so Scottie was born at 11:30 Saturday morning, on May 23rd 2015. And I have pictures as well, like always =)

The story of Scottie's birth:
Nathan and I were in my herb garden, discussing the fact that Callie had not yet had her calf, when we decided to go down to her pasture and check on her. When we arrived, we found her in labor, quietly standing through contractions. We were quite excited, and sat down to watch her. After some time, we ran up to the house, for Dad was calling us. We told him what we were doing, and he went inside and spread the news that Callie was having her baby. The whole family came down to watch but only some of us were patient enough to wait an hour for Scottie to finally make his appearance in this world :)
Olivia and I are the milking team, milking twice and a day and feeding our little boy his bottles. We are really enjoying it and look forward to our chores everyday! It had been so long since we were doing outside chores, since we had sold our goats. We were ready for outside work again!
Below are some Pictures of Scottie's birth =)

excitedly watching Callie

Callie being a good mama

Me with Scottie just after birth

He was sure hungry!

I know this is just as cow having a baby- but for us, it is something new. We have only dealt with goats. So It was something very exciting for us. Baby animals are fun anyway ;)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures :)

I have more pictures of the work we have been doing on the cow shed/barn, but I guess you will have to wait for those;)

Until next time,

Elise

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