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02/15/11, 07:27 PM
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It's a Heifer
Ta Da.. My new jersey, Cookie, calved today - her due date. A nice little heifer. 
If I can get a good picture, I will post it tonight. The stall has wood walls (brown) the straw is brown, the cow is brown, the calf is brown.....
Now for the next stress point - MILKING!!! Going out to hang a head gate now. Hope I can get it up and it doesn't fall down on both of us in the morning. This is will be so exciting when we get past all the mooooooing.
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02/15/11, 07:44 PM
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LOL congratulations!
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02/15/11, 07:44 PM
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YEAH!!!! Congratulations!
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02/15/11, 07:53 PM
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Congratulations!
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02/15/11, 08:43 PM
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Not the best picture. They are both way cuter than this!!!
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02/15/11, 10:01 PM
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I am a Christian American
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awwww, she is plenty cute!
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 Seriously, I am COMPLETELY dressed!
Just keep moving...just keep moving! 
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02/15/11, 10:12 PM
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WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, COOL, good job Cookie, and Callie. Best of luck with everything. > Marc
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02/15/11, 10:14 PM
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I forgot, have a name for her yet ???? > Marc
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02/15/11, 10:15 PM
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val for valintine
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02/15/11, 10:19 PM
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how adorable! I can imagine you're excited! Is the calf a keeper?
We have our replacement heifer already, and if our cow gives us another heifer this year (6 out 6 of her last calves were heifers!) we'll just raise it for a few months and sell it. Now watch this be her first bull calf! 
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02/15/11, 10:43 PM
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big congrats! and yes, we need another pic of the little calf all dry and fluffy and named!
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02/15/11, 10:51 PM
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Moo Hoo! A heifer calf for you!
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02/16/11, 07:32 AM
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She's a sweety. Good job Cookie.
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02/16/11, 08:17 AM
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What a cutie!!
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02/16/11, 08:22 AM
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What a cutie...congrats!
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02/16/11, 10:24 AM
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Congratulations, yes more pictures
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02/16/11, 10:38 AM
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I named her Daisy. I have always wanted a cow named Daisy. I do not know what I am going to do with her. I do not want 2 cows to milk so we will just see how it all pans out. There's really no reason to sell her until she's bred unless there's a really poor hay crop this year or something. I never saw Daisy nurse yesterday so I milked some colostrum out into a bottle just in case we needed it. Cookie let me milk her right in the stall. I was pleased about that.
I put up a headgate for Cookie yesterday. I was really glad I had it this morning. It took some convincing to get her to put her head in it.....then the claw's gasket wasn't sealing and it was a mini-disaster. DH went out with me an hour later and we got things working just fine. Whew! Now the next sad step- taking the baby away. After that - hopefully, it will all be down hill for a while. I could use a bit of that.
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