November 12th, 2009 Our Calves
No, this isn’t a workout commentary. A few weeks ago we added some calves to our menagerie. They’re little Jersey-Holstein crosses, cute as buttons. The girl is Lena and the boy is David. Sarah’s having a great time bottle-feeding them, although they’ll almost knock you down when they butt for more milk.
Crazy as it sounds, if all works out well I’d like to try to train David to be an ox.
We’d looked at some longhorns, beautiful animals, for that purpose. They were really VERY gentle, but the horns just aren’t child-friendly.
On a somber note, we record the deaths a few weeks ago of two of our avian friends: the female duck and Buster the Canary. I really miss Buster.
We have since bought a male parakeet as a companion for Celeste (our female parakeet, who was Buster’s “mate”)…but Celeste is still upset and attacks her new “boyfriend” when she gets the chance. The drake however lost no time in courting his new sweetheart.
We have one Silkie sitting on eggs right now (not her own eggs); the hens are still laying pretty good for winter-time.
In home-school, Sarah has been studying about Jamestown. We’ve woven a 2-week or so study around this subject, including crafts, readings and simple science lessons.
