Wednesday 23 March 2011

Monday 21 March 2011

girl calf for spring


One of the first girl (heifer) calves this spring. When calves are very young, they don't make a mooing noice, and only later on they can mange a sort of grunt! Their mothers do all the talking.

It is lovely to see the calves all newly licked and washed by mum, who has the roughest of tongues, but it does th ejob of cleaning and brushing the calve's coat so that it shines. All the while she is talking to the calf with that low, maternal mooing sound.