New calves, snow and sprinklers

Lillys from a few years ago hoping for flowers soon.

We now have 8 baby calves. They are so cute racing around. I have had to help a few learn how to drink, or a better wording would be where to drink, they know how (usually) just not getting the location right.

Spunky, they usually get names if I have to work with them, is a nice bull calf. His mom has a couple of problems. We didn't intend for her to be in the cow herd but she ended up there and has a good calf so she got to stay. The 1st and most obvious problem is that she is mostly blind in one eye. She was born that way, you can just see the white of her eye she has to tip her head way up for the iris to show. This makes it harder to handle her, you have to let her know where you are and let her work her way slowly where you are going. The 2nd problem is her udder, it isn't a nice neat one. There is no way her calf can suck the first few days unless he has the mouth of a hippopotamus! So we have to get her in the chute several times a day and get Spunky something to eat. Now Spunky isn't stupid (for a cow that is) he quickly figures out that if I open the gate to the chute that lunch is being delivered. He would run up to the chute and look for mom, when she was slow going in he would run around the other side and check to see if she was there lol but you could see his thought process, as after he drinks on the one side I take him around to the other. Tonight when I went to feed he was already eating dinner, yea the self feeding variety, my favorite kind.
The other cow and calf we were working with is an older cow that always has a good calf, the one this year just didn't get the location part down for some reason. She would eat good after I pointed her in the right direction. Mom was a little crabby about having to get in the chute several times a day. It didn't help that everytime you touched the calf she would squeal like a piggy. So mom was being a pain wouldn't get in the chute, Jon comes over to help and she cowkicks him. Cows can kick way more sideways than you would think they can and this is cowkicking. She got him right at the top of his leg, probably will have a nice bruise. I was glad to see that her calf was the self feeding variety tonight as well.

It snowed a couple of times today. Not a lot but enough to add some needed moisture to the wheat we planted. It is starting to sprout so moisture will be good, so would warm weather but doesn't look like we will get that until net week.

We fixed one wheelline and then rolled it over to where it will be ready when we start sprinklers. With the weather that is a few days off. This is good as pumping water is expensive.