We have been keeping an eye on both Mona and Paulette for the last couple of weeks expecting one or both to have a calf any day.
It was a bit a surprise to see Roz with a new heifer calf by her side.
Little Zephyr weighed in at 62 lbs on 1/12/2018. We moved the pair into the nursery field with Topanga and her baby Zion.
It was purely coincidence that they both start with the letter Z since Zion was named after national parks/natural areas (Bryce, Coulee. Delta) and Zephyr was named after the line of Roz Z’s (Zima, Zippy, Zoey). I promise the next calf will not have the first letter Z (mostly because there aren’t enough words under Z in the dictionary) unless the temperature was hovering around Zero (PLEASE NO!) or the newborn began playing the zither shortly after birth.
Topanga and Roz are great mothers, they get along well in the big hay field and when they come to the barn to eat hay. The two calves were wary of each other at first but Zephyr kept following Zion around until the two got used to each other, now they play, cavort and lay down together.
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