The Story of Little Orphan Annie

It has been a very fun and interesting day at Hat Trick Farm. Today one of our first time mamas, Suzette (not the one pictured) delivered a beautiful heifer calf. Unfortunately for the calf, the mother abandoned her. While we tried to get Suzette to let the baby (who was named Annie--as in Little Orphan Annie!) nurse, another mother tried to take it. Now we know that Farlow, the other mother, was in labor and probably thought that we took her calf.  In the end we wound up letting Farlow have Annie as her own. The picture above is of Annie (left), Farlow (middle) and Henry (right and who was Farlow's actual calf).

A little more news since Molly was born. We have lost another calf and had 3 more living calves. All the babies names are Molly, Zagnut, Bella, Noella, Annie and Henry.        

It's a Girl

Welcome and introducing......Hat Trick Molly. 

After losing the calf on Friday the joy now abounds on Hat Trick Farm. 

First Calf

First calf of the year was born sometime in the middle of the night on either May 1st or 2nd. We had
 a bull calf with a belt that went from his front legs all the way on to his back legs.The calf was stillborn for reasons we can't identify. After about 1 day Sunburst, who was his mother, had not gotten up. So we did a more detailed examination of her and found that since she struggled while delivering, one or more of her nerves got damaged. Sunburst is now getting medicine to recover.