So Kyle arrived home last night pulling a trailer behind him. I thought "Oh goodness, what does he have now". He melted my heart when he came out carrying a baby calf. It is a precious sight to see a grown man snuggling a 1 day old calf in his arms. But then he pulled out another and another. Yep 10 baby calves , at our house! Six of them are only a day old. And of course the kids all named them poor pitful names like Button Butt and Whisker Noodle Brain. The boys went to bed with smiles a mile wide on their faces thinking of how we have started to grow our little farm they have been dreaming about for quite some time now. BUT....this morning I arose this morning to make Kyle breakfast while he went out and bottle fed each calf. When I went out to tell him breakfast was ready he was handed me the bottle and told me to finish feeding the last one while he went to catch one that had gotten out. Kyle went to go grab it and the little burger took off! Kyle chased it around the yard until it ran into the neighboring pasture. So I put down the bottle and we both jumped in the Suburban and went chasing after it. We couldn't catch it...can you believe it is only a day old and faster than two adults! We went and woke up the kids and they jumped on their bikes with their ropes. We couldn't find it. It is now 10 am and we still can't find it. The boys and I have walked a good 4 square miles looking everywhere and it has just vanished! The darn PITTBULL probably got it! Anyway, so now our happy little farm is minus one calf. His name is Winky Binky Doodle Bop (Katelin's obviously) so if you see him let us know!
2 comments:
haha we did the same thing but our cow was like 3 months (ya it just happened a couple days ago) but we found him the next day! good luck
I think calves are so darned cute. I hope you find your little escapee.
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