New Calf

Yesterday, we got a calf for our daughter’s 4H bucket calf project. 

He is a week old Holstein calf.  He was pretty tramatized by the trip to our house (about half a mile), but this morning he seems to be feeling much better and ate well from the bottle.  She hasn’t figured out what to name him yet.  I think something like hamburger would be good so she’ll remember what his purpose is in life and not get too attached to him.    But, it is probably too late for that because it is only 1:00 and she has already been out there 3 times to sit with him.  We won’t actually be the ones to eat him at least.  None of us have any experience with cows, so this should be a very educational summer.