We have all learned a lot this week about caring for our new calf. We bottle feed him two times each day. Right now he is drinking 10 pints each day, split up between the two feedings. We also give him some sweet feed, which is in a pellet form. We are using Calf Manna. [...]
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 [...]
We had our second 4H gardening meeting this week. I was cutting up seed potatoes when the kids arrived, so I was able to show them how to prepare potatoes for planting. We cut them into pieces, leaving at least one eye on each piece, then set them out in the sun all afternoon to [...]
My daughter signed up to do a bottle calf in 4H this year. Although we live on some land in the country, we did not have any outbuildings suitable for animals. We did, however, have a compost bin. Since we did not use the compost bin, my husband decided to take it apart and use [...]
My niece is enrolled in cake decorating with her 4H club. Her assignment after her first project meeting was to practice frosting a cake. I was planning to make her birthday cake anyway, so we worked together.
After she frosted the cake, I showed her how to smooth out the frosting.
It’s kind of hard to see [...]
We had our first 4H gardening project meeting yesterday. I am the project leader for our club. My kids are in gardening plus two others. The kids wrote down their goals for the year. (Record keeping is an important aspect of 4H.) We then learned a little bit about seeds. They dissected bean seeds [...]
