SURPRISE!!!!

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An August born calf! 

Unheard of!

(At least  in our neck of the woods.)

When did it happen…DECEMBER!? 

Come on we didn’t have a bull in with the late cows in December! 

But here she is…born August 12, 2009 at 4:33 p.m.  And to a first year heifer, which means … she wasn’t going to get bred until May, she is/was just too young! 

What do we know?!

Those sneaky bulls or at least one of the bulls!  Over there in the neighbor’s farm, has to be…. ours was two miles away. The only other cows on the place are/were mothers- in- waiting.  And we never missed the heifer, ever!  Nor did we see a bull hanging out!  But it happened….here is the calf, all shiny and new!Surprise

26 thoughts on “SURPRISE!!!!”

  4. What a cute baby. kind of crazy how life works out. Glad the momma cow is doing well and so is baby. Good luck on figuring out how it all happened. 🙂

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  8. Well at least Mama and baby are fine! That young a heifer could have had problems! And at least she had another heifer! At late bull calf would be to small!

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  14. I call that a BONUS BABY!
    All 7 of our Holstein-Hereford cross beef cows have calved as we expected in late June and July.
    But #8 had us in a quandry. She looks like she’s bagging up…..then the next day or so, we say no.

    So we are still waiting…she must be a wayward
    teenager…LOL 🙂

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  17. Come on Linda!
    Surely you would have seen a young heifer in breeding heat ( well that’s the expression in Australia)! I can’t imagine any surprise re: the result – an excessively fat heifer!
    A heifer or cow which comes “in season” will do anything to be bred. They can back themselves up to a fence and the “eager beaver” on the otherside will, despite the possible problems, he encounters, do his job! I observed this way back as a school kid in the 1950’s, when I told my Dad, he said rubbish! So what seems unlikely is possible, despite the pain of either of the two responsible. My Dad was wrong! A calf was the result or this, I can only assume, painfull exercise for the bull! Anyhow you have a beautiful young heifer calf!
    And it must have been, from the colour, another of those sexy Aberdeen Angus bulls!
    Your blog is really so interesting.
    Cheers
    Colin

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  18. August Surprise. How sweet! 🙂 A nice comfortable time to be born, anyhow. I always hate how cold it is when the farm/ranch babies usually arrive.

    Could have been a ‘through the fence’ move by a neighbor bull, or you may just not have discovered the hole in the barbed wire yet. Hoping that’s not the case, though.

    ~Faith

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  20. A friend of mine had a similar event with a goat this spring. A buckling they thought to small to breed a full grown doe had grown enough by February and they had a surprise July doeling. She looked a little extra wide the week before, but none of use were thinking it was still kidding season. Sub optimal timing, but a doe is a doe, how ever you get her.

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