Feeding Calves

Last Winter we started a new family business.  We adopt the calves from a neighbor farm and raise them for their first 8 weeks.  It's been an adventure.  Sometimes we love it and sometimes we hate it, but I think it's good for our family.  It teaches some good lessons about work and life and money to our children and gives us something we work on together.  Here's Melissa cleaning out one of the calf hutches.

 

Here's Eric feeding a new baby.  Some learn how to suck from a bottle with no trouble, but some are a real pain to teach, well I guess they're just like children.

They like to suck on fingers . . . or anything they can get their mouth on.  The kids have all been really good with them.

Here's David trying to ride one of the older ones.  The boys really like being cowboys.

And here's sweet little Rebekah feeding a bottle.  She's such a good little helper!