Name That Calf

Been a while since we did one of these, but we have a very special calf for you to name. I am excited about this baby. She is a daughter of one of my favorite cows, Camry, a daughter of Ocean-View Extra Special out of our old Butternut cow. The newbie's sire is Juniper Rotate Jed.

Butternut was one of five full sisters by Mansion Valley Delaware, out of a cow we had that would not conceive to any other bull. She had five heifers in a row and they did really well for us. Two of them, Birch and Balsam, even won really tough heifer classes. Balsam took junior heifer calf at Altamont and Birch won intermediate heifer at both Fonda and Altamont. She was a February calf and to win against animals so much older than she, at a fair like Fonda, was a big deal to us.

Balsam was born on the 29th of February, so she is young cow in birthdays, but a bovine senior citizen in real life. She is the only one of the sisters still with us, but her family is thriving, with Bayberry, my beautiful Broadway, Rosie, and many others descended from her still standing in the barn. This new baby has a lot of promise and I have real high hopes for her.

If you've been here a while, you know how the name the calf contest goes. You folks are clever, we are unable to come up with a name, so we ask you to offer suggestions. We write them on slips of paper, toss them in a hat and pull out a winner.

Asaki is one example of a cow named this way, as is Bama Breeze. Both still live with us and are still called and registered under their contest names. And that is the prize....your choice of names bestowed upon our new little black girl, printed on her registration paper, and should she reach the show ring, on her sign.