Polly, Licky and Malty

Malty is last year’s poddy calf and still hangs around the house. Mr Fun did have her in another paddock but had to bring that mob up to the yards. On the way one of the other heifers hurt her leg so Mr Fun left Malty behind to keep the injured heifer company. She was then moved into house paddock with the injured heifer were she has remained ever since.

Malty looking at the new bull which arrived today.

A few weeks later sadly a cow died giving birth so Mr Fun had to go out and catch her calf. When he brought her home we decided to name her Liquorice because she was all black. When Liquorice was old enough to eat grass she started to eat Mrs Patient’s garden, so Mrs Patient shut her out of the house yard and made her go out where the other cows were and make friends with other calves. When it was time to give Licky her afternoon feed she came home with Malty - we figured they were friends. Then Licky was too old to stay here so yesterday we moved her and Malty to the yards with another cow that is sick.

Liquorice (Licky) just after a feed

 

Licky and Malty best friends

Then, this morning, a friend of ours rang to say he had a calf at his place and the mother had died. Oh dear – Mrs Patient had about 24 hours poddy calf free!!! LOL. He offered it to us and Mr Fun and I went and picked it up. It is a little heifer (female) and we have named her Polly. I have given her two small feeds of milk but we are waiting for the calf milk to come home from town. It won't get here until about 5.00pm. We have her in the playpen just until she is strong enough to walk.

Polly waiting for her milk

Polly's first real drink....

Sid will not take his eyes off Polly!

Do you have a favourite poddy calf story to share? 
I would love to hear it.

"206"

206 is a cow. We are now in the calving season and everyday we go out and see if any cows are in need of help, but normally we just check on them and give them hay. I like to visit my favourite cow 206. She’s a beauty! But boy is she a gobble dock!

206 is very quiet you can even pat her, basically everywhere. Whenever 206 has a calf, all she does is has it, and then leaves it. So, when ever she gets close to calving, we have to put her in the yards and keep a close eye on her. We like to name her calves and so far 206 has had two calves. The first one was a boy and we named him Patch because he had a patch on his forehead, and the second one was a girl and we named her Christine I don’t know why but we did.

At the moment, 206 is in the house paddock, and every morning she comes and visits the calf, Liquorice, that we are feeding, and waits for her to join her for the day. It looks cool when they go off together. Sometimes Liquorice and Malty, last years poddy, join up and spend the day together.

The other day Mrs Patient was not so patient!!! Someone left the gate open and 206 came in and ate some of the lucerne mulch from Mrs Patient's roses.