Phone call this morning.  “I have a Jersey bull calf…”  Well, that got things started, and it led to this purchase; the first 100 lbs. of milk calf milk replacer.

First milk replacer of the year

This is the first calf that we will be taking this fall.  I hope to raise at least five of them through fall and winter.  In the spring we will begin selling and processing last years steers.  That is how the cycle goes.  The cycle is actually longer than a calendar year.  We are aiming for 18 months on the steers, so we will be finishing steers and starting calves on the bottle at the same time.  Yikes!  It’s going to be a busy winter.

After selling off some of the cows in the spring we hope to add heifers into the mix, but that all depends on money, what we can find, etc.  Ideally I want some Herefords, but we will see how things go.

I’ll try to post a picture of the calf soon.

– Stan.