{"id":4110,"date":"2014-07-07T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:29:35","slug":"%ef%bb%bfwe-have-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/07\/07\/%ef%bb%bfwe-have-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffWe have babies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And boy, do we! Billions of tadpoles have morphed into tiny baby toads and are coming up to high ground from the ponds, creek, and our spring basin. You have to be so <\/em>careful not to step on them as they are everywhere. I’ve even quit driving the four wheeler as you can’t avoid running them over. Hopefully these tiny bug-eaters will soon find nice secure homes for themselves so we aren’t paranoid about walking and driving on them.<\/p>\n

\"Toads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We also became the proud “grandparents” of a new calf Saturday afternoon. Mamba, Will’s pet angus\/holstein, bred AI to a Jersey bull gave birth to a beautiful seal-brown bull calf with no difficulty. As we knew I’d be milking her, both Will and I have been taking great pains to handle her daily for months, including her udder. When she had her calf, Will rubbed the wet calf and let Mamba lick him too. Then he milked each of her teats with her loose in the barn. No problem. She thinks we’re her calves too.<\/p>\n

\"Mamba-and-baby\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although she has short teats in the rear and it takes a long time to strip the milk out with two fingers (that’s all I can get on them at once), she calmly eats her grain and lets me sit on a bucket and milk away. Seal, the baby, watches and noses me while I milk. Because he was handled from birth, he’s imprinted on us and is very friendly.<\/p>\n

Mamba is only giving about 3 quarts at a milking, plus feeding Seal. But that’s plenty for us right now, especially with those short rear teats. I have a feeling that she’ll up her milk production as she has a beautiful udder. And I’m sure her rear teats will get a bit longer too. I hope\u2026 — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And boy, do we! Billions of tadpoles have morphed into tiny baby toads and are coming up to high ground from the ponds, creek, and our spring basin. You have to be so careful not to step on them as they are everywhere. I’ve even quit driving the four wheeler as you can’t avoid running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}