Here she is, she arrived at 10:30 pm February 26, 2009. She weights about 25 pounds and is doing great.Here is how it finally happened. I have been waiting for about three weeks for this. I am very good at noticing the changes that the cow was going through. I just didn't know how many changes were going to happen. So I was getting to the point that I was thinking that she was never going to have this baby. I had been checking and checking on momma cow for weeks....
So last night about 8 pm I disided to start a fire in the fireplace. Well, we didn't have much wood in the house so I needed to go and get some. The woodpile is very close to the cow house so I disided that I would just go check one more time because I was outside......well when I looked in the house I notice that it was wet in there. That was her broken water all over the house. So I looked for momma cow and she was about 50 feet from the house having contractions.
I called my husband and told him (he is out of town) He said get off this phone and call my friend to come over. I am so glad that I did....we watched and watched as the contractions got closer together. My friend is as cow happy as I am.
At about 10 pm we thought that she was going to have this baby, but she wouldn't lay down anywhere. So we got very quiet and just watched....she went and layed down all the way across the pen from where we were. I was very quiet and walked over there are got to see it all happen.
When the baby was coming out, she was being push under the fence panel. I got it pick up this slimy baby and put her back in the pen. She is so pretty and I was a mess. As she was being born, she blinked her eyelids at me and that is when I knew that I was in love.
The pictures are from today.....the ones from last night in the cold and dark aren't as good.
The Brown cow is Val's first baby she will be 1 yr old on March 7....
