Northview Diary

And mama, chin deep in green chop

Three milking shorthorns sharing the salt lick. ..Northstar, Rosie and Cinnamon.

Broadway last March, with her heifer calf, Bloomingdale...a Poker daughter how I wish someone was taking a show string this year so she...

Liz and Strawberry Our Liz . Walked right out, tossed a halter on Northstar the other night and brought her in to be milked. You don...

Is my favorite color... .or at least Broadway is my favorite cow. (click to embiggen my dear old girl) **I actually prefer blues and g...

Two calves born at the same time last night . Right a t milk ing. Suffice to say that even with six people running around like beheaded ch...

Night ..... Our cow, Asaki, decided to have her calf last night at around 11. Alas, a bull, but a really handsome guy. Between ...

Simon, the unlikely, elderly, best hunter on the farm Fog this morning. Couldn't see more than the vaguest outline of the heifer barn, ...

Yeah! We are in it. And hoping and praying that the rain holds off...all week if it wants to. One field is ready for the seeder and the Su...

The new calf, a son of Spungold-R Frolic Poker , full sibling to last year's Rose Magnolia. Out of Broadway

Here is somebody who wears green every day As a Facebook friend pointed out the dairy markets are crashing again . It was looking as if we w...

Most folks who spend a lot of time working on a dairy farm end up delivering a calf sooner or later. In theory every cow has a calf every y...

Another calf born yesterday . It was an amazing morning with geese ringing up off the river through the fog like rather noisy ghosts, lower ...

Alan built us a huge wood shed all in a week, all by himself....cut the logs for the poles, set the poles, built the sides and roof and roo...

At the Fall for Colors Sale

Is a Holstein heifer by Chilton out of my Trixy family. Yesterday morning she had a heifer calf by our milking shorthorn bull, Checkerboard...

I am smart and I know it. I was loose in the barn this morning and gave the boss lady quite a run for her money. We have been waiting more t...

On Parade ***Well, actually on their way down to the barn for morning milking Traffic jam, NY style...upstate NY that is Detroit Bonneville ...

Rose Magnolia, our girl , shown in the intermediate calf class The other shortie at the fair, sired by Promise, our old bull, a junior yearl...

Some fast phone pics sent home by Liz during and after clipping . Her head is shaped a lot like that of her paternal grandmother Gold Mine ...