New boy on the block

There is a bit of a story behind our cows due dates. Back about March last year the neighbours bulls came visiting. There were two empty cows at that point - Aurora and Bonny. We got the vet out to PG them and they got to meet Jack the Dexter bull after that - in April.

So about November Aurora started looking as pictured - as though she might calve at any moment. By December she was in milk and I was expecting a spotty calf to arrive at any time. The relevant dates were she would have been due on the 22nd of December if she was in calf from the neighbours bull invasion but if she was in calf to Jack she would be after the 19th of January. So here we are in February and she still looks ready to calve at any moment and totally unconcerned about it.

In the meantime Bonny decided to just get on with it and yesterday produced a little black bull. His older sister who is still a bit of a mummys girl at 17 months old is not that amused.