Baby cow cuteness overload!!!

So it is official, Faith was pregnant! We are pretty excited to present to you, Faith’s baby! She was born on March 30^th, 2016 somewhere in the afternoon. Mom & baby girl are doing well.

Faith is being a very good mom, protecting her baby, nursing her, following her everywhere and cleaning here. She’s letting us pet the baby but she keeps an eye on us.
So, the baby is 1 day old today and there is not much happening to talk about beside the fact that she’s eating well and sleeping a lot.

We can't get over the fact that this little cow is so cute and lovely. I just can't wait until the mother/daughter bonding phase is over so that I can step in a little more and start playing with that little gal! She’s SO sweet and so fluffy! Her coat is all soft and perfect! I just feel like cuddling with her but mom is not to fond of the idea. Even though she is friendly with us, she’s still protecting her baby. I’ll just wait a little before getting between the two of them.

I'm sure we’ll have plenty more stuff to tell you in the weeks to cone. Oh! Just in case you were wondering, name pending but we have a couple in minds ;)

The joys life brings you...

Ugh!!! Where should I begin? Well, last week, Saturday-ish. I switched my dogs food from raw to kibbles. Théo (our Mini Aussie) started refusing to eat. After talking with his breeder, we came to the conclusion that he was protesting against his new food he didn't like. On Wednesday, he got sick in the morning. Add that to the fact that since he wasn't eating as much as he should, his stomach was upset. On Thursday morning, he got sick again and there was bits of blood in it. I tried feeding him dehydrated pork liver that he refused! Somethings was wrong, really wrong as Theo normally inhales his food. Took him to the vet right away. Once there, he had 2 explosives diarrhea entirely made out of blood. 24h later, after a night at the vet and a huge hole in our bank account, a new diet and some meds, Theo was home with a pancreatitis. He is now doing very well and happy again.

On the day Theo came back home (Friday), our new little bull calf was delivered to us. Our plan for him was that he would "service" Faith this summer and give us meat by the end of fall. His plan for us was to get out of the trailer, get scared, jump the fence and run away in the wood. Here goes another hole in the bank account!

Since then (today's Sunday) there is (hopefully) a little guy running, being afraid, hungry and thirsty if not worse because the poor guy is injured and bleeding and I could see that the coyotes were tracking him as well.

I've been tracking him for the past 2 days in the area without any luck (so far) until our neigbour found new tracks yesterday. So, I'm going back out there today armed with hope and Theo to try and find him.

So, a very expensive 24h for us. Hopefully we'll find him today, alive or dead but at least we'll know. I truly hope he's still alive, doing "well" in the wild or that he may have joined one of our neigbours cattle and he's just blending in, getting food everyday. Time will tell.

March 23... I must admit I kinda forgot about that blog (sorry!). Good news is, Chester is back!!! After a total of 5 days looking for him, deep in the snow (the story began at the beginning of March remember!!!), with blisters on both my feet, he just showed up in the field with Faith!!! So we're happy to report that Chester is back, safe and sound with us! Happy ending, YAY!