Wednesday, June 15, 2011

New Faces on the Homestead

First livestock on the farm(ette) - Meet Joyce and Grady. They are half Holstein, half Brahma, all cow. We will be raising these beauties for beef. In the meantime, they will enjoy a couple of good years being treated well here at The Sanctuary.

The electric fence is a bit of an enigma to them at this time. They will be in our yard overnight while Kent erects a regular fence to help them transition to life in the pasture.


Grady - look at those huge ears!


Joyce



We bought these guys (a bull and a heifer) from our good friends, the Zilhaver's. We hear they are mighty fine eating. Big shiny stars to anyone who can guess why we've named them as we have.

3 comments:

Rae said...

They're so cute. It's hard to imagine eating them, especially since they have names. :-)

Diane Shiffer said...

You have a picket fence?!?!?!

~ s w o o n ~

Totally clueless as to the rationale of the names, but I am most curious to find out;-]

Oh, and thanks so much for the sweet comment on my blog. You are most definitely in the category of gals I want to be real life friends with my dear. Can't wait to meet up, and hopefully soon! I will be down at my parents around the 4th of July, will you girls be free around then by chance?

Rae said...

Maybe you should rename them Hamburger and Steak? :-)