Baby on board

Hey, Willie here.  Big happenings today on the farm!

So mom and dad were feeding us early this morning, and my mom all of a sudden looks at the cows and says "we have a baby!"  Dad says "Go!  I'll feed the boys".  So first off, mom isn't here to feed my breakfast, and that means no one is gonna scratch my neck the way I like it.  But that's ok, because I was hungry and it meant she also didn't take my blanket off, which is good because it was cold this morning!

Anyway, mom takes off across the pastures, running for the cows.  Apparently, Olive was having a baby!   Dad chucked feed at us, and he left us, too!   It seems that babies are really exciting for people.

So Olive has a baby boy cow.   My mom stood out there in her pajamas in the cold for a long time waiting for the baby to stand and then nurse.  Then she ran to the house for a bit, and then more people showed up.   They went out and messed with this baby.  My mom seemed really happy all morning.  I could hear her all the way across the pasture sometimes!

Finally standing up!

The cow people came out and said hello to me when mom took my blanket off, and I liked that part.  They said I was cute and gave me scratches.  Then mom put me out with Chuck so I could see the baby, but I was really interested in hanging out with Chuck, and that baby was pretty far away.

Getting his ear tag

So we are all grazing, and then I see mom come out running from the house.  There were a bunch of vultures in the pasture and in the sky, and Olive was running them off from her baby.  

Cute baby fuzziness

Now, my mom, she loves us.  She takes good care of us.   She can be like an angry mama bear if she thinks something is threatening us.  I've seen her take off after stray dogs and coyotes, walk a pasture killing fire ants, and take a baby bird away from Pearl the barn cat and climb a tree to put it back in a nest.   She wasn't gonna put up with some birds bothering a cow.  So she runs out into the pasture, waving a towel at the birds, and keeps running around waving that towel till the birds fly off, and then stands with Olive and the baby to make sure everything is ok.

We stood watching her, and Chuck said "your mom is crazy".   You don't talk bad about our mom in front of Deuce!   He threatened to bite old Chuck and said yep, she's crazy, but she's our sort of crazy!  I've seen Deuce go with her to chase down a coyote and I've seen him stand and protect the old horse we used to have, so he's nuts, too!   Grady taught us that the safest place to be is with our mom, and I don't doubt that for a minute!  You can't mess with that sort of crazy!

Olive standing over her baby

This evening both mom and dad went out to check on the baby, and I heard them say they are going to name the baby after my dad.  That's funny!   I would call him Johnny.  You know, the man in black?  Deuce rolled his eyes when I told him that.  

Hubby and his namesake

So anyway, there are 3 more babies coming.  I hope they don't come at feeding time because I don't like when breakfast is late.  But we had fun watching how silly our people were!

And I don't wanna remind mom, but I didn't get any treats for baby cow day.   Just sayin'.

W.

Being born is exhausting.  Time for a nap.