Em Nau Farm BLOG

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 and Shirley made numerous attempts to stand up and take in the scenery on the trip from Mt Mee to Em Nau.

They moved into their new abode – the kids pen next to our goats – and immediately settled down and met their new neighbours whom, from their expressions (if cows can have different expressions), they thought were funny looking cows.

Heather immediately started them on milk from Beaudette and they hungrily nuzzled the bottles.  Frank gave a couple of head butts trying to get the flow going faster. 

Now that they have been at the farm for a week and a bit they have really settled into a routine of twice daily milk feeds, and heir “hard rations’ of chaff, cow crumble and grass.