Bottle Feeding Delbert

Every year in the spring my father-in-law and his brother buy about 8-10 calves. We raise them all summer and fall, and then butcher them. It is really good meat! I usually refer to them as "ours", but they're really not ours, Wes just feeds them while they are in the corrals. In the summer they graze up at the ranch.

We don't normally name our calves, but this year a couple of them were already named when we got them. There is one calf that is really struggling, so Wes has been bottle feeding it for the past week. He named it Delbert. We thought Hallie would love to try to feed it, but she got so scared and started crying! She gets scared when they say "moo" to her. The calf will probably end up dying...a lot of new calves do. We don't usually buy them this small (because they die so easily, and aren't big enough at the end of fall to butcher), but Wes's uncle brought back 2 small ones this time.

I should have a post about our Memorial Day weekend soon!