new calves

Yesterday we made a trip to Holden and brought home two calves:  Hope, a mostly (or I think all) Jersey heifer; and Henry, a Jersey/Holstein calf.  After the huge Holsteins we bought over four months ago, these guys seem really small.  I didn't know how Grace would take to two new calves, but I needn't have worried.  Last night and this morning I put her in the barn and let her eat with her head in the stanchion while the calves nursed, so if she took offense at the little strangers getting so familiar with her and tried to hurt them, I would be able to intervene.  Tonight I actually turned her in the little lot behind the barn where she always nursed the other calves.  She kicked at each calf once or twice, but not too hard at all.  In fact, they didn't even stop sucking when she kicked at them.

Grace gives quite a bit of milk for two little squirts like these, but so far they don't have any digestive problems.

There's one of her gentle kicks.  Didn't even faze Henry.

As you can see, we're getting a little snow.  I wish, if we're going to get snow every weekend, we would at least get five or six inches just once.

Yes, I believe Grace will get acquainted and bond with new babies just fine.  
Of course, the big kids aren't real happy about getting weaned.

 

I'm watching a free movie on my OLD TV!

The oldest grandson read my blog entry yesterday, started putting two and two together, and figured out how to get everything working on our television:  Roku, Antenna, Directv, the works.  Even as I do this entry, I'm watching the movie "Labor Day"; I read the book and liked it, so this is my opportunity to see what they did with it in a movie..  I have Amazon Prime, which gives me a lot of things to watch.  I couldn't watch Amazon without the Roku my Russian friend gave me some time back, so I'm grateful to him.  Thanks, Meesha!

The grandson used to work installing Directv, which gives him a pretty good working knowledge of how, where, and what to hook up on the back of a television.  At first everything on the Roku was coming in as black and white, but he went to his garage and found a different cable, and that fixed that problem.   It works great!  There was a problem also with the program having to stop and load in the middle of everything, but I think he adjusted something with the high definition.  That seems to have fixed it, since my movie is playing uninterrupted right now.

I am working with three remotes now, but I'm fine with that.  There's the original TV remote that I hadn't used in years, the Roku remote, and the Directv remote.

I'm a happy camper.  Wouldn't it be funny if this led to our getting rid of Directv eventually?

We brought home two baby calves yesterday, but that will be another entry.