At ten weeks her imprint has firmly been stamped on our farm here at Grazing Meadows.
She- (Eddie? She? Her name is the subject for another post) asked the other day what’s the deal with her new home. Who knows, maybe the answer will interest you too…
Well Eddie I guess the first thing is to introduce you to your fellow herd members since that’s who you will be spending your time with. The big boss is Maggie and her shadow, I mean daughter, is Daisy.
Two beautiful Dexters even if they are – as you have already found out, a wee bit entitled. When they arrived here back in April they were the only cows on the block so to speak. So Ed you must cut them some slack. Neither one was too sure of their new home at first or the people sharing it with them. But Maggie has been steadily coming around and now enjoys a good ear and back scratch. Little Daisy still remains a mama’s girl, staying close to mom and being, as you have experienced, a bit selfish with sharing her. But Daisy is slowly coming along and now gives in to the pleasure of a good head scratch and occasionally even lets you lay near mama. I digress. It wasn’t long before Maggie and Daisy awoke one day – Memorial Day to be exact – to find three lovable troublemakers waiting to join them on this journey towards sustainable agriculture.
The three trouble makers turned out to be, quite literally, your half brothers and sister! But we get ahead of ourselves. It seems their owners, (Cherry Grove Farm, an organic farm offering artisanal cheeses made from their own herd of dairy cows and pasture- raised meats and eggs) had an abundant calf crop this spring and were offering this gang of three two-month olds for sale. It happened that the timing was perfect for us to build our herd so we took Big Blue – our trusty cargo van turned livestock transporter- and went on a little adventure. The gang took to the van rather well and in just under an hour they were in our newly converted “calf half-way house.”
After a little mooing for their mamas all three soon took to their bottles (Jersey had a bit more trouble than Dottie and Norman, but with a little patience he too got it) and settled in. In no time at all they were running and kicking up their heels and nibbling at the quickly growing grass. Initially each tried his/her hand at nursing on Maggie, but she (and particularly Daisy) would have none of that.
Little did they (or us for that matter) know that within two weeks of their arrival at Grazing Meadows their father had helped produce a little heifer that would eventually become the most terrible troublemaker of all! But before you get a big head Ed let us remind you of that little medical problem that almost stopped everything before it got started…
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