Daisy was kinda lazy when she was younger!

We got Daisy when she was about 10 weeks old in May of 2022. Her momma had died of unknown causes when Daisy was about 8 weeks old and she needed a loving home. We had hoped that Daisy would be a bottle baby, and it would be an incredible experience for our girls to get to bottle feed this calf. Well, she was way too skittish to ever take a bottle, so she was our bucket baby—she got her half gallon of milk straight from a 1-gallon ice cream bucket! It was a fun time, but not at all what we had expected. It was determined when we got her that we would try and breed her when she was older and hopefully produce boys for food or girls to produce more cows. In December 2024 she went over to one of our friends’ farms for a 45-day date with a Black Angus Bull. This would give us a due date of mid September through end of October. We had no idea if she got pregnant during that time, we just figured we’d wait and see what happened.

Earlier this summer we noticed that she was definitely looking rounder and had started growing udders! At least in goats, this was a sure sign of pregnancy. We are having a calf!! She is progressively getting rounder and her udder is starting to fill up so I am eagerly learning all I can about first-time cow births. We are looking forward to this new addition on the farm--after 20 something goats and a few chicks, a calf will be really neat to experience! We are praying for an uneventful birth and would really like a girl so we can keep her for our herd. I’ll update when it happens!

Daisy is having a baby!

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