Working baby calves is a bit different for me these days. While other people do the work, I stand around and point my camera at cute baby faces. That works for me. Retirement certainly cuts down on the bruised shins, the manure-smeared jeans and sore muscles.
I admit it: I'm a sucker for baby faces, especially the faces with unusual markings. No. 33 kept catching my eye. But he was not the only one.
One of these calves is not like the others. (There were other light-colored calves in the bunch. They just weren't in this photo.)
We have turned the daily feeding and care of our cow-calf herd to Tye and Todd Miller, though we still own the cattle. They run our cows with their own herd. When babies are born, our calves get the yellow ear tags and the Millers' get the blue ones.
Randy and Tye's friend, Aaron, helped get the calves up the lane, ready for their "doctor's appointments."
Todd asked if I missed the work. He offered to let me join in. However, it looked like they had it handled.
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And that gave me free reign on checking out the cute babies ...
... And the cute helpers.
Seems like a perfect arrangement to me and those calves a very healthy herd.
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