The first one….

…not only our first calf of the season, he’s the first Falcon calf born in this country.  He’s only a few minutes old here, already on his feet and walking; freshly tagged but still wet.

Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon was the bull we found on our first trip to Devon and eventually was to become the anchor of Traditional Devon America, a partnership of three breeders sharing a love of Devon cattle and determined to preserve the traditional pure English genetic pool.

His real mama is Goldings Snowdrop 113 (British pedigree records go back a long way.)   The mating occurred in a clinic near Cambridge, the embryo frozen and shipped to the States.

We used one of our very best cows to serve as the recipient mother of the embryo (too many use their lesser cows) because we think these little ones deserve every advantage they can get.

I guess he’s technically an “undocument alien” right now but we’ll pull tail hairs soon and check the DNA so he can be registered.  Too late to vote, though.