The Golden Girls...

Super Cuteness... 

Golden Girl.....Born 2016

Golden Girl....a curious yearling heifer

2022...Golden Girl with her calf, 

Golden Delicious

Yes, they are twins !

2023...Golden Girl with her calf, Elsa

We now have a herd of Golden Girls !

2024...Here are Golden Girl's calves 

all grown up:

Golden Delicious and Elsa

They look just like their mama.

Golden Delicious and Elsa

They live in the same pasture right now...

As you can see...

Golden Delicious is expecting her first baby.

She is round like a barrel !

I check on these girls 2 or 3 times a day,

but no baby yet.

Yes, Golden Girl had another baby this year:

Yes, it is a heifer...yay!

This is Brookie...our 4th Golden Girl.

Maybe some day all of the Golden Girls

will be in the same pasture together and I can 

capture a family photo of all of them.

p.s.  Yes, Golden Girl has had other

golden calves but they were bull calves

and we don't keep them.

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LuAnn Kessi

Golden Girl...has a new Sister

Do you remember Golden Girl?

This is Golden Girl.....born 3 years ago

Golden Girl now has a little sister:

We call her......Goldie

This is Golden Girl's mother with her

newest baby.....Goldie

Golden Girl's mother has given us this little gift...

Goldie

Goldie will shed off this summer 

and turn a golden color

just like her older sister, Golden Girl.

Golden Girl

Enjoy the video of Goldie:

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LuAnn Kessi

Feeding Cattle.....Winter 2017

This is Golden Girl...

She was born last year....2016

Here is Golden Girl with her Mama

One Year Later:

Golden Girl....1 year old

Golden Girl stands out in the crowd

I hate to play favorites....but how cute is her face!

We are in the field feeding the yearlings 

this morning...

They eat 1,000 lbs of hay each day.

Golden Girl

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LuAnn Kessi

Golden Girl.....A New Baby

Remember this little calf born in....2016

 

Golden Girl

This morning we went across the river to check on

the mama cows in the silo...

this is what we found...

The Cowboy in the barn with

Golden Girl and her new calf...

The morning sun was shining in from the back of the barn, so as I captured the picture from the front of the barn,

the images created a silhouette...

I love it !

Golden Girl is now 5 years of age...

She is an excellent mama cow.

She has a sweet, black, heifer calf...

This is the 9th calf born this week...

More To Come !

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LuAnn Kessi

Scribble Stitching.....more Happy Campers

While I was contemplating the quilting

design on the Dresden Quilt...

I moved over to the work table and cut out

and glued down another Happy Camper...

Here it is with scribble stitching...

And, a purple Happy Camper...

with scribble stitching...

All of the Happy Campers 

are stitched.......FUN !

This is Golden Girl

In our herd of cattle, she is a unique color...

on a sunny day when she is clean and dry her 

hair is nearly blonde.

This is Golden Girl's mother last Spring:

This is Golden Girl's new sister...

we named her Goldie.

She also has that beautiful unique color.

I captured this image of Goldie yesterday:

Goldie is 6 months old and just weaned.

She is looking more and more like Golden Girl

every day !

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LuAnn Kessi

The Frozen Calf...

 

Here she is...

our little frozen calf

We named her Elsa...

After the Disney Princess from the movie Frozen

Yes, she is all thawed out and...

SUPER CUTE !

Golden Girl is so glad to have Elsa at her side...

Elsa is so happy to be back with her mama...

2 weeks ago Golden Girl gave birth to Elsa.

It was a long, difficult delivery 

and 19 degrees that night.

When we found Elsa the next morning, 

she was frozen to the ground and not moving.

We rushed home with the frozen, newborn calf,

rubbed her down and dried her off 

with a hair dryer

and tubed her with colostrum.

We could not get a reading on the thermometer.

5 hours later she could open her eyes, 

it gave us hope.

By the next morning, 

we heard mooing from the basement !

Elsa is now back out in the pasture 

with her mama, Golden Girl.

Elsa is a very friendly calf.  When she sees us out

in the field, she comes up and sucks our fingers.

I think she knows us, knows our smell...

and maybe she knows we helped her out

when she needed it most.

When you raise livestock, you are just a heart beat

away from death and sorrow...

you must take the bitter with the sweet.

This time it ended sweet.

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LuAnn Kessi