Boys, boys, boys, all we seem to get is boys!! Nope not one dairy heifer has been born to this family yet. We keep hopin that maybe someday we will get a girl. We’ll have to wait and see I guess. Tzeitel gave birth to this little guy last week. He is 1 week and a day old today.
Tzeitel has been a very good mother. Tevye is her first calf. We bought her and her younger sister from a ranch NW of here last fall. She has been out on pasture all her life, which is one of the reasons we wanted her. She was not from a dairy farm. For us this works a lot better, since we will be keeping her on grass and using her for our family milk cow until Chava (pronounced Hava) calves again. And if you are curious about our choice of names, you have no further to look than good o’l ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ for our inspiration. We love that movie! Want to know one of my favorite quotes from that movie? Well I’ll tell ya…. it’s from Golde the mother: ” I could die from such a man!!” And D would say his favorite quote is from Tevye: “Patience woman, patience!!” or something like that. Yep, we have lots of fun in this here family!! Shalom! 😉