Claire feeding Alberta, out of Cherry. Alberta's front legs were weak for a couple days after birth, so feeding her bottle was the next level of Saint John's Organic Farm's gym workout... an "airchair " squat holding her weight on my knee so she could focus on drinking...
Calving season is going well. One set of twins, twice as many heifers as bulls so far, and all calves healthy and friendly and handling the spring very nicely. Even with 75 degrees a couple weeks ago and then snow the last couple of days, the calves have thick coats and are eating well. These Swiss calves are super sociable and docile and easy and fun to work with. It's nice to be back to full Brown Swiss, after the experiment with the beef bull crosses.
Baby Iris, out of Clover
We have seven bales of hay left in the stack, but with the grass growing, it looks like we're coming through all right. This winter took some juggling with feed and weather, but hopefully we can start irrigating soon (as soon as our pump gets fixed... Water comes in on the 15th!) and then the grass should come on fast.
Asdrúbal, or Ozzie, with JJ
JJ and Elisa are back in France. Aaron is doing great at his new job, but comes out some weeks to help us with projects.
Posy and Florian, even though she's a Red Devon cross and small for her age, no csection needed!
I'm going to let the pictures speak for the rest of the newsletter!
Periwinkle coming to say hi.
Cottonball with her twins, and adopted baby Luna. Blowing steam in the cold.
Picked up bummer lambs and a goat this year, Molly the goat, Meg the spotted lamb, black lamb Lizzie not shown... Sasha loves her new babies to take care of.
Serena out of Tiria. The usual farm cart was busy, so the red wagon worked, but only barely. She's a big girl!
Baby bunnies, two litters, nearly ready to go.
