Baby Girls in Their New Home

Here are some pictures of the girls in their new lodgings.  They are very much enjoying themselves, and besides treating some of the ones that had been at our farm in the bank barn for a week, they haven't had to treat any of the new ones!  The weather has been absolutely beautiful and that may be playing a part due to less stress on the calves.  Either way, we are glad to see them thriving instead of struggling along.

Lots of space and lots of light!

Dad converted his old holding pen into the calf shelter.  He would have put the calves in the old calf barn except the
snow piled on top of the calf barn two years ago and it collapsed.

Dad welded together some cool gates that fit nicely over the water trough so that two groups can reach one trought but
no babies get through...at least not through there.

One little baby fast asleep. :)

Dad and Nathan have been filling up the pens pretty fast and even though we are only halfway through March, we are finding ourselves building more pens to accomidate more calves, because the holding pen only holds 40.  We are up to 36 heifer calves as of this morning out of 90 cows.  We aren't quite up to 50% heifers, but we are grateful for this, because it is allowing us a little time to build more pens.  Even when something doesn't seem like a blessing from the outside, God can still use it for good.  Sometimes we just have to look at the situation from a different angle.

Blessings