It’s almost mid-August again, and it’s time to bring home this year’s batch of baby calves. This is always a busy but very interesting time in the farming calendar.
Preparations have been ongoing for the last few days, washing and disinfecting hurdles, feed buckets, and milk pails. Making up pens and bedding down the sheds.
Powdered milk and feed have arrived today.
They will be fed milk in buckets for the next eight weeks. Each pen will hold six calves, and we will have a total of 90 calves. We will collect them in batches of 30, with the first calves arriving this Friday. The final batch of 30 will arrive home next Friday.
As they grow, they will be weaned onto hay and pellets.
Come and stay with us during this time, and you can watch them being fed, which happens twice a day.
(Pictures are of last year’s calves )
