Bama Breeze

Bama had a baby girl yesterday, and Bling had a half-shorty bull, winding up the latest round of calving. 

Thank God. 

Bless her heart, Bama, a matron of six, has never had a bull calf. This time she was almost two weeks overdue, so our vet suggested we induce labor. I hate doing that. Seems like it is harder on the cow and you end up with problems every time. However, it was easy to tell that the calf was getting huge and we were afraid it would reach a size that she just couldn't manage. so we followed her advice. Mama and baby seem to be doing pretty well considering the heat and all, so I guess we are maybe okay.

Slept in until six this morning with no barn check to do. Which was great.

Anyhow, the new one is a nice little heifer calf by a bull I bought as a calf for the boss for Father's Day many moons ago, Keeneland Astre Pat. K-Pat for short. Kind of a funny story on him. I went to the sale just to get him, but another lady paid an insanely high price for him. I was just packing up little chilluns and getting ready to leave for home when the sale staff announced that he would be resold. 

Seems the other lady forgot to check the plumbing and thought she was getting a heifer. She rejected him out of hand and they put him back through. I got him bought cheap.

Liz suggested this morning when we brought the new one into the barn that she needed a name. As it happens Bama was named by one of our favorite bloggers, Florida Cracker, a particularly fine science teacher from Cedar Key.

So Liz suggested that the perfect name for her is just that- so welcome to the world little Cedar Key.