Pictures of everything BUT the new baby calf

We had our second baby tonight - at dark - about 2 mins before the rain came pouring down. Thanks to my honed 4-wheeler racing skills, we made it back to the truck JUST before we would have been soaked! I think I ate 10 lbs of brome grass seed in my rush to keep from getting wet! It was a fun adventure and it was nice to witness a successful birth for once, instead of always only seeing the ones that need assistance. Dark chocolate (might turn out to be red) baldy baby was up and found some milk while we were there. Twinmaker didn't make twins this year. I didn't get any good pictures of the new baby, but I got pictures of other wildlife tonight.

We had a baby! (calf, that is)

Our first 2008 fall baby calf hit the ground this weekend and it looks to be be a busy week with more than half of the cows showing signs that they could calve anytime now! We spent the evening patching some holes in the fences (well my other half did the patching and I did a lot of picture taking ;-) he wasn't too happy that my butt didn't leave the comfy 4-wheeler seat! I may still be a tomboy but I have my girl-y days too). The weather was pretty blah all day today, but it was cool too and cool in August in Kansas is not the norm, so we'll take it! So - no more small talk - here is the new baby and a few more cow pictures I took tonight!

(I posted it and then thought maybe I should do captions:
1,2 and 3. Stumpy and her new red baldy baby bull calf
4. The two 2007 calves we saved as replacement heifers getting big! Last summer one friend commented on the left one's huge ears - we're thinking about naming her mickey (mouse). They will be bred this winter to be fall calving cows.
5. Pretty landscape from the small spring pasture looking north towards town.
6. Spring herd hanging around in the lot on their evening trip to the water tank
7. Big Red - the pretty red angus cow looking comical
8. Big Red's 08 spring heifer calf that is looking really good - she'll probably get saved back to be a momma cow and continue the red in our herd!)