Name: Apple Species: Bovine Gender: Cow Breed: Jersey Of all the crazy ideas I’ve had, Apple may be one of the craziest and best! In September 2023, I decided we needed a milk cow for our family. We were already milking 4 goats, so I thought, “How much more work could a cow be?” We were going to hand milk her. That lasted all of two days! We quickly ordered teat cups that would fit her and also attach to our goat milker….
Name: Walter Species: Bovine Gender: Bull Breed: Registered Miniature Hereford Walter wants you to know he’s kind of a big deal. People know him. When I decided to swap my mini cow herd from commercial cattle to registered, Walter was my first purchase. I was so excited to find a bull fairly close to home – he was in south Missouri. I was also pumped that they had started working with him on a halter. Y’all know I tend to treat everything like…
Name: Nellie Species: Canine Breed: Australian Shephard Whoa, Nellie! This girl is the one we call the million-dollar dog… but let’s start from the beginning. Our dogs are really now a “yours, mine, and ours” situation. Superman is mine, Nellie is Colton’s and Denims is ours. I even wrote a post about how our dogs are definitely like our kids. Colton didn’t have a dog of his own when we started dating again in 2013. He kept telling me he…
Name: Henryetta Age: 3 years (April 2016) Species: Goat Breed: Spanish/Boer Cross Henryetta was born and raised on our farm. When she was about two weeks old, we lost her momma, so she became a bottle baby. Most of our goats are not raised on a bottle if we can help it, so having a friendly bottle baby is fun sometimes! Since Henryetta was so friendly and used to being handled, she got volunteered to go to a few 4-H…
Name: Superman Species: Canine Breed: Border Collie Superman has been a part of our family since the day he was born. He was out of the last litter of Border Collies my Grandma and Poppie bred. Poppie picked him out for me from day one. Superman has held many roles in his life: College dog, Apartment dog, Rodeo dog, Petting Zoo dog, and Farm dog. He has been to basically every petting zoo I’ve put on, and he absolutely loves…
Name: Loretta Species: Bovine Breed: Registered Milking Shorthorn I thought it only right to dedicate our first “Meet the Herd” post to Loretta, seeing as it’s her birthday! Loretta came to us just under a year ago as a sweet, 10 day old bottle calf. You know how they say alcoholics shouldn’t go to a bar, and shopohics shouldn’t go to a mall, because the temptations are too high? Well, “cow-o-holics” probably shouldn’t be in cattle Facebook groups… I was…