A Day on the Farm

There was a baby calf born on the farm a few days ago.  The Mama Cow didn't make it, so my Dad and the other guys on the farm have to feed him with a bottle.  He asked if we all wanted to come out and watch him feed the calf.  Oh, and he asked my little buddies to help too.  My first thought was, "This should be interesting."  So off we went to feed the baby calf!


Dad usually doesn't name his calves.  He used to, but he said every time he named them, they died.  (For example, on election day in 2008, he had two baby calves born.  They were both brown/black calves, so he named them Obama and Michelle.  They passed on shortly after, so he stopped naming them.)  We all decided that we should name this calf.  Trevor wanted to name him "Pig" because when he would moo, he sounded like a pig instead.  Kendall wanted to name him "Moo" because "That's all he does anyway!"  Denise decided to name him Carl.  Bonus points to whoever can tell me why she chose Carl by looking at his tag number.

Here are a few of the photos I took today.  It was quite entertaining watching the kids and my Dad bottle feed this baby calf, or Carl as Denise calls him.

It was pretty neat to see the Carl the Calf eating.  I would chalk this up as a pretty good day!

Bonus points go to whoever guessed that the calf was named after Carl Edwards.  He is the driver of the #99 Nascar car.