Bottle Babies

The boys have bottle babies.  They are up to eight.... yes eight babies on the bottle.

 

They end up with bottle babies because for whatever reason their Momma can't take care of them.  We won't go into all the reasons, because usually the reasons aren't all that fun to talk about =(

 

The babies are just so darn cute though!

They mix the milk up in a 5 gallon bucket, and then pour it into these tubes which are actually their bottles.  The tubes have a nipple on them and most of the babies take right to it.  This way you don't have to hold their bottle, and you don't have to wash their bottles!  That makes it nice, because they have to feed twice a day.

Mr. Blanco looks sorta funny alongside all the other black babies.

Mr. Baldy is just my favorite though!

 

 

So speaking of bottle babies.....

the calf in the middle is Mike and he was a one of the boys bottle babies last year. 

 Almost one year later, he became quite a big boy.

It was shipping time!

Time to ship these babies to the sale,

well they're not really babies anymore since they now weigh 800-900 pounds.

And what in the world would we do without portable panels?  These panels just fold right up and we hook them onto the pickup and take them to the next pasture.  It takes the whole crew and we sure are thankful for our crew.  It's been busy around here, because the deadline has arrived when we have to get the cattle off of the wheat that we will save for harvest.  So most of the cattle are shipped to the sale....  It's a happy time and a sad time.  Sometimes, I hate to see them go =(

Do y'all remember Helen?  Well she had a heifer.  She's so cute.  Sadly Helen will be headed to the sale next week, too.  I sure will miss the colorful cows and their colorful babies.