Bringing you up to speed.  When I got Clover Bell the oldest of my Dexter heifers she was suppose to calf in two weeks and that was in August.  I had pretty much decided that she was not pregnant. 

Then I noticed in the first few weeks of January that Clover Bell's bag was growing.  Could it be that she was getting close to having a calf??  It was January the 13th, Friday the 13th and I had an appointment in Norman.  I checked Clover Bell before I left.  She had a slight discharge.  Could it really be that we are going to have a baby, dexter cow!!!  How wonderful would that be.  woot woot!! 

I got home late in the afternoon and I didn't see the cows.  They like to go to the North pasture up in the trees.  I thought I should get things ready if we did have a baby.  

I heard Jake singing his way to the barn.  He is such a hoot, I call it singing but it's more like a moan.  As he walks down from the north he mummm, mummm, mummm. It's really funny.  Gabby was following him but  NO Clover Bell.  Could she have had a baby up in the trees, how will I get it down to the barn, will she let me get anywhere near the baby?  Then I saw her coming out of the trees.  She was walking funny though.  She took 10 steps stopped.  I noticed that she was holding her tail funny too.  Was there a baby hanging out of her south end.  It seemed like it took forever but she finally got to the barn.  Then I had to get her into the stall.  As she was coming down I ran to the hay stall and got some fresh straw for her stall.  She went right in and laid down in the straw.  It wasn't long before she started pushing I checked her and saw two hoofs and a nose, everything was as it should be.   It looked to me like the legs were black.  I didn't care what color it was, IT'S A BABY!!!  I wanted to stay and watch, give moral support but knew she would not be comfortable so I went to the house to get a coke.  I text Valerie to let her know we were having a cow!!  Her response was "What?", then she called.  I explained what was going on and she was on her way.  She told her boss "we're having a cow".  What could he say but "Okay". 

When I got back to the barn there was a slick bundle of calf on the straw.  Clover was cleaning it up.  It was a dun!!  I was so excited that it wasn't a black.  Woo Hoo!!!  

Valerie got here and we watched Clover clean up the sweet little one.  At this point not knowing for sure what we had a heifer or bull calf.  We were finally able to get our hands on the calf and IT'S A GIRL!!!  A heifer, A DUN HEIFER!!  Also I didn't feel any horns, was she polled? It couldn't get any better or could it!!  I have decided to call her Rosie.  So I emailed a picture of Rosie to my Dexter expert Sheila.  She emailed back, "are you sure she isn't RED?"  After I stopped jumping up and down screaming RED, SHE'S RED!!!   Sheila said her nose looked awful pink.   On Friday the 13th, I had a RED POLLED HEIFER!!!

Clover has been a wonderful mother.  Rosie is growing like a weed. She was only about 35 pounds when she was born.  

I'll try to do better about keeping you up to date!!