Another New-born in the Family!

After the few days of bright sunny days and Nikki's calf suffering in the heat, it is now raining again and Nina's calf has entered the world.

I thought I heard Becky crying up in the top paddock and assumed she'd got herself on the wrong side of the electric fence from her Mum but when I looked I found Nina in the throes of childbirth and 2 small hooves poking out from behind. Nina wasn't happy that we were there so we left her to it and we would return to check on her in a half hour or so.

After only 15 minutes Charles went up to the shed and stopped to check that all was well and found that the little calf had already been born and that Nina had chosen a very slopping patch of ground to give birth on, so that the calf had rolled down the hill and was now on the wrong side of the electric fence. Picking him up he carried her around to some flatter area and left her to mum to lick and feed.

It was a truly fast and almost painless experience for Nina (her first calf).

After hearing cows in surrounding properties birthing for hours and moaning on and on, and to hear both of ours hardly make a sound and birth so easily and without complications was great!.

Happy birthday to the latest addition of the family, Fede!