It looks like the last update I posted on animals was about going to the sale barn and getting cows. As a reminder we got a calf/cow pair and a "weaned" calf: Chloe, Midnight, and Mooey. Chloe and midnight are some kind of black angus mix and midnight is part Holstein. Midnight and Mooey will eventually be our meat cows. We hope to AI Chloe sometime in the near future for another calf. Midnight, her calf pictured below (much littler in the pic than he is now) is a very good looking steer. He could go to the fair if he wanted. This is a picture of him getting out of his fence and coming in the yard. He still gets out from time to time. Having a mama calf keeps both the steers in line though. They are much better about not getting crazy, unlike some other steers we could name from the past, but won't. We ended up having to feed quite a bit of hay this winter as we had snow cover from November to end of March. We got our barn built about January and began collecting more animals shortly thereafter.
Strange creature spotted around Halloween.
Lots of deer came through this winter looking for birdseed. Below is a super blurry picture of a bobcat that visited around New Years.
At the end of January, Houdini, our dog, got really sick and we had to put him down. He was almost 14.
At the end of February we adopted a Welsh pony, Snickers. She is 23 but still healthy and we're hoping the kids can ride this summer. She does not like cows.
At the beginning of February we began our cat collection. Aaron was on his way to get Whiskers from his mom when I got a call from the animal shelter in Castle Rock saying a cat that had been microchipped to us had been found. Our cat Genevieve ran away 2 years ago. When we got to the shelter it was her. Whiskers came home with Aaron and ran away a couple of days later. She was gone for two weeks and at the end of march we woke up to a box full of kittens.
The kittens are now almost 4 weeks old an looking for a good home.
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