New Hereford Bull Calf born, Our Hereford Bull, and Januray 2012 flood water!!!

Last Saturday January 12, 2012 we added to the herd again.  The calf we were waiting on, Mama did breed on the clean up cycle by the bull.  She is an older cow and is the Boss of the herd.  My husband swears she waits until he has given up and when she sees him coming into feed she just drops a calf on her own terms.  He intended to check her again for signs of a possible birth and was maybe going to put her in the barn.

Needless to say he saw the calf and started moving equipment to get her and baby up.  I had just left to go to our daughters for a visit.  So I was not helping this time.  After hours of working and having it all strawed down he ended up carrying the calf to the barn and Mama followed.  He told me that he thought it was going to be a lighter weight calf until he picked it up.  They had to go into the barn because our temperature that day hit close to 60 degrees, rain and dropping temps were predicted for the night.  The calf could have frozen to the ground during the night.  We did get 3 1/2 inches of rain that night and washed into the barn so  the next day he added more straw and everyone is warm and cozy now.  He is moving them out of the barn probably Sunday or Monday of this week.  The little fellow is already jumping around and running in the pen, so he is a healthy little fellow Mama maybe getting older but she is a really good mother.

We did have some flooding , river bottom flooding(back water).   Eventually it did cover the road and at times we can get flooded in for up to 14 days or more. We live on a curve and it floods us in both ways.  We get out by 4-wheeler to a vehicle we move out (to the neighbors) prior to flooding. We have lived here so long we are educated on river bottom flooding.

Mama, baby, and flood waters are OK now.

I have posted baby pictures Jarhead born January 12, 2012, a picture of our Bull Harry born May 11, 2009, and flood pictures(before water got over road ).  Also a picture of what I call our swamp.