Red Devon births

Going into this past weekend, two of our cows had "thrown" their calves.  On Saturday, Betsy and I were on chores and this is what we discovered!

We had the pleasure of checking the health of the calf and the momma cow, tagging the calf's ear and trimming its umbilical cord.

Me, Lee, with the Saturday calf.

And then on Sunday morning, we wake up to find that another cow is in labor.  It was a difficult labor

We could see the nose and front hooves.

Sunrise watch

Observing carefully

Warren showed up to help and then Olivier arrived.  Many people helped to construct a "jug" for the cow and her calf to encourage her to allow the baby to suckle.  We had to help yet the momma was patient.  

Olivier, Rebekah and Betsy help the calf

On Monday morning, Caitlin compared hair color tones with the baby.

And on Monday evening, we found that another cow had given birth.  

Wow, three births in three days!