HC Minis - new pics pg 172

[Kim P]

Tana is absolutely gorgeous!

 

[chandab]

I finished the pink and black cowgirl quilt and finally got a picture of it today. It's available, PM me if you are interested. It's almost 41"x41" square. Has a really cute pink print on the back (a valentine's print of the alphabet that also says love, hugs, etc).

 

[chandab]

Since I have a couple with some hoof issues, it might not be the wisest choice, but the corrals are a mess after winter, so I opened the gates and just let the girls run loose in the back hay yard. They usually just go hang out by the gelding pen. and, actually seem to feel better after their time out and about, so guessing the dry pasture area is better than the damp corral.

 

[chandab]

 

[Lepeppylass]

I LOVE that brown quilt! I wish I had the patience for quilting.

 

[chandab]

Some days I have lots of patience, some days I don't.

 

[chandab]

Maybe, Baybe... It's probably just wishful thinking since they spend at least 50% of their days together, and Che` hasn't gotten it done on his own in 2.5 years (she was pregnant when I got her, but slipped it); but I swear I saw a flutter today in Baybe's flank. She's the slimmest she's been since I got her, so just seems unlikely, but maybe. Will try to get pictures of her if I can, but I doubt she'd be very cooperative.

 

[chandab]

Whew! Four bum calves is wearing me out. Luckily with calves, you can feed them only 2-3 times a day and they do fine. Two are twins (one each from two separate sets), one was rejected for one reason or another, with cows you rarely figure out why, and the third was never claimed by a cow (so who knows what happened there).

Hopefully, we have a home lined up for two of them; a local youth raises bum calves then buys books for the state youth home with his profits after selling the calves. Hopefully that will work out, so I can be down to just two calves, sooner rather than later. Shayne said we should get a dairy cow to raise the bum calves, but I don't want to take care of one; and what if you get one that doesn't want to raise someone else's calves. [We don't often have bum calves to worry about, but it seems to go in streaks, few years in a row with one or two, then a few years in a row with none.]

 

[lkblazin]

Sorry to hear that. Maybe a dairy goat...? Or would it be too small? They have the larger breeds. Then sell it off when your done with it...?

 

[chandab]

Hubby wouldn't have a goat on the place for anything.

 

[lkblazin]

LOL!!! Neither would I. They poop all over and eat everything. Not to mention the head butting. I'm just not a goat person.

 

[chandab]

I think the little dwarf varieties are cute, especially watching the kids jump and run around.

 

[lkblazin]

Yeah they are but when they get into things I stand there imagining a child in the terrible twos

 

[chandab]

That's my understanding, especially with the young ones, perpetual terrible twos.
I've seen so many cute videos of goat kids playing, it's hard not to want one, then I see a picture of one standing on the hood of a vehicle.

 

[lkblazin]

Lol exactly

 

[Kim P]

Oh Chanda, the quilt turned out beautiful! He is going to love it!

 

[chandab]

I have to bind the little teddy quilt, then I'll be almost ready to ship. Your son's quilt was well received at quilt guild last night.

 

[chandab]

One of my 4 bums may have a mom now. Unfortunately, a cow laid on her new calf, it sometimes happens, but we thought we'd see if she'd take one of the calves. I wanted to pick a different one, but the calves were loose in the barn alley when we brought the cow in, and the CharloisX calf picked the cow, and it looks like it might work, he was nursing on her when I went out for last feed of the night. He was so hard to try to bottle feed, but took to udder with no problem. Hope she has enough milk for him, since he's at least a week, and her udder is big enough for a newborn, hopefully it'll catch up to his needs quickly and they'll take to each other out of the barn as well as in a small stall where she can't run away.

 

[Kim P]

Oh I hate she laid on her baby, but I am glad that that she accepted the little orphan!

 

[chandab]

And, now I have no bum calves. One is on a cow, two went to the sale yesterday (I know one went to an excellent home), and the last little bitty heifer went to a boy (I would say about 10 years old). Relieved to be free of bottle feeding for at least a little bit, calving isn't over yet.