10/05/2026
Let’s take a second to appreciate, in my opinion, the best cow on our place.
218
218 had shown signs of calving during our check that day. We decided to bring her to the house because things didn’t look quite right. We were right and her calf had a leg back and she had lost the calf.
We had a cow that had had twins a couple of days before that and I was raising one on a bottle. 218 wanted to be a momma so bad and had already noticed the calf in the barn before we even pulled her own.
So we pulled her calf, rubbed the after birth on my bottle calf, and they took to each other like a hand and a glove.
Now she is raising a steer, that is not even hers, and he is almost as big as her!
Thankful for cows like 218!
(This picture was taken mid August, he’s even bigger now!)