It's a boy!

Get your attention - ours too.  Let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time in a land far far away (called Pueblo) we bought 2 cows - Copper and Moon. Copper is Moon's mother. Copper had recently had a miscarriage (or still born calf), and Moon had recently been exposed (to a bull). We were told that Moon would most likely be pregnant and in a few months, Copper would be ready to try again (to get pregnant).

Fast Forward a few months - we took the cows in to have halters put on them since we don't have a squeeze chute. We also wanted a preg check on Moon. There was no need to check Copper, she had just lost a calf when we bought her.  We were disappointed when our vet told us Moon wasn't pregnant. We eventually decided that was fine and we could try to get Moon and Copper both pregnant in July / August sometime so they would calve early summer (not in the middle of Winter).

Skip ahead to today... Steve went to check the cows, give them water and hay and was surprised to find this....

Copper was pregnant. Guess I should have listen when MaKenna mentioned a couple days earlier that Copper had udders and she hadn't had them showing before.

He had one leg stuck in a prairie dog hole for a couple hours and got pretty hot in the sun. We called our awesome vet and he came and checked the calf out, fed him a bag of milk and gave him some meds for his fever. We watched him today, didn't see him eat anything and he wouldn't take a bottle... so I got nervous and called out vet back out tonight and he fed him again. Hopefully in the morning the calf is sucking and eating from Copper.

Kids are arguing over names... what do you think???

Blackjack
McBean (Sneetches)
Sunny Jim (Too Many Daves)
Puddles (Oregon Ducks)
Lightening (big storm on Thursday night)
Twister (Tornado warning Thursday night)
Tornado  (Tornado warning Thursday night)
Pacos Bill (Tall Tale - Roped a Tornado)
Twilight (born at night)
Double Stuff (Oreo)
and a few others...