After the loss of Laverne we were fortunate enough to be able to get two more calves (for a bottle of homemade tomato sauce).  The two calves Shirley (continuing the Laverne theme) and Frank (as in Shirley and Frank from “A Country Practice”).  Both were around a week old when we got them and had experienced none of the trauma that Laverne had endured in her short life hence were allot more robust.

When picking them up Heather had them trussed up in the back of the ute with bailing twine...