New arrivals…

…and they’re from heifers who did the job like they’d been having babies for years.   T3 in the top picture and her bull calf were interrupted at breakfast….X3 has milk on his lips just like in those advertisements.  Devon are known for their high quality milk and that means healthy calves as well as quality meat.

Little X2 wasn’t going to let anything interrupt her

very first breakfast!  She’s less than an hour old and that all-important first drink is colostrum, packed with the anti-bodies that give her all the immunities to protect her in her vulnerable early weeks.  We love to see a new one jump right up and begin nursing.  We love it, too, when they have a nice, thick rump like X2.

These two mamas were born just days apart at Thistle Hill Farm exactly three years ago.  They’ve been inseparable since birth, always grazing side by side and sleeping next to each other.  This week they had their babies three days apart.  Don’t they have lots to talk about?!