Yes, I Actually Followed Thru

I took pictures. I have an album of plants that need identified, and a whole load of new animal pictures. I'm just going to post the best ones here. Today, the cattle.

Gumdrop is our first cow; she is twelve years old. She lost her calf in June, and we are looking forward to re-breeding her in August.


T-Bone is this years beef steer. He is currently living the good life at our farm, enjoying the grass and some grain. This fall, he will take a trip to the butcher, and come home in nice little white packages. Hey, this IS a farm, folks. We eat what we raise here. He is shown here with the new Dexter we picked up yesterday on his right. She is bred for a fall calf. So, with in the next 90 days, we should have a new baby on the ground. T-Bone is on the left, the new girl is on the right. We are still deciding on a name for her.


Saturday, we spent the entire day chasing after cattle, one way or another. I already related that in Saturday's post. I have a few pictures of these guys, they are too cool.

The first one here is Sir Loin. Jim and I went after them. We decided this is the one we want to keep. We name our food animals with food names.


Here is a pic of mom's steer. He's a little bit smaller than Sir Loin. But in 18 months time, it will be just as yummy to eat.


And here is my favorite. The back of the pickup has 9 bales of alfalfa in it. This isn't cheap stuff. And the steers are shown here stealing a nibble out of the rear-most bale.