A Family Treehouse: A New Bottle Calf Arrives

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A New Bottle Calf Arrives

Last Wednesday, when we bought our chickens and ducklings, we also got our second bottle calf! Yes, it was a VERY busy day for us!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 01, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Pops took the girls and Bump to the sale barn and they met another family selling their older bottle calves. So, they became fast friends and had a heck of a good time.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 02, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

When we got it home later that evening, we put it into a separate pen (for a couple of weeks anyway) to make sure it didn't have any bugs of any kind to share with our other little heifer!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 03, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Pops and his little assistant, Bump, ready the area for our new calf to be "delivered" to the little pen.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 04, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Pops donned the appropriate veterinary safety gloves needed for this kind of delivery...

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 05, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

and gave it his best effort in getting this calf out!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 06, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

This calf is a bit bigger than our other one was when we got her.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 07, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

So, it was a bigger challenge getting this calf in AND out of the kennel!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 08, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

At the sale barn, the auctioneer sold the calf as a holstein heifer.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 09, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

I know that there are red holsteins out there...

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 10, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

But, I have never seen a heifer that had, uhmmm, well, boy parts!!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 11, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

So, now, as we have little horns growing in on this little guy's head, I wonder if this little bull is really a holstein or is it a shorthorn...

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 12, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

He kind of looks like all the shorthorn cattle that are roaming the pasture just to the south of our property.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 13, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

He is VERY happy taking his bottle and enjoys it as much as any little calf could.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 14, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Let's just say that if you aren't fast enough in getting the nipple where he can get to it, your jeans, knees, elbows, boots, backside - anything he can reach is FAIR game to be butted or suckled on!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 15, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

If he ever got loose out of his little pen, you could tease him right back into the pen with that trusty little bottle!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 16, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

But, as much as he likes that crazy bottle and rams into me when I am not fast enough, I have to wonder if I shouldn't let him loose in that south pasture and see if some mama cow out there will take him!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 17, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

I don't think that I really mean that, but the thought has crossed my mind more than three times in the past week!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 18, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Seems like someone was doing just fine with this one and the bottle.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 19, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

I think that this guy should be the one responsible for him - but, we do try our best!!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 20, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

The children do try to just feed him through the fence as he is a bit pushy - even at them.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 21, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Well, any way you shake a stick at it - we now have two bottle calves taking up residence on our yard, a baker's dozen of chickens and a quad set of ducklings living in the garage!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 22, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

We are having ourselves a great time with these great creatures.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 23, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

The treekids are learning that there is more to life in the taking care of these lives that need our help to live!

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 24, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

We are working together as a family to get it all done each day and finding our way in seeing who can do what when.

2nd Baby Bottle Calf at A Family Treehouse: Red, Holstein/Shorthorn X? - 25, Our 2nd Bottle calf arrived from the regular Wednesday sale at Perkins Livestock Auction. The auctioneer called this one a holstein heifer. Turns out it is a little bull... and it is likely to have some shorthorn (or ALL shorthorn) in it as it has the little nubs of horns growing on its head. He has taken to the bottle like no one's business. He is a bit excited about eating and wants his bottle - NOW, thank you very much!

Tomorrow is another sale at the livestock auction... we are still on that "list" for wanting bottle calves, but I am hoping that no one calls us tomorrow!! Maybe next week or the next... but, I am not ready for any more right now!!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A New Bottle Calf Arrives

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