It's a boy

We had a new addition last night, a red/white lineback bull calf. He was born late last night so we left him with his momma until morning milking. Well as you can see when I headed up to get him and take his picture he had left his momma and crossed over to go to the side with the milking cows. He probably figured the mother load of milk was over there instead of with those dry cows he was hanging out with.

We love when we get linebacks just to bad he was not a heifer. This is the second red/white one we have had and they were both bulls. We raised one of our black/white lineback bull calves to breed and that is his daddy, Fuzzy was his name. In fact when we see lineback calves we all say It's a Fuzzy! Well our chances of having anymore Fuzzies is getting slim because Fuzzy is no longer with us. He was very proficient at his job and was determined to breed one of our holsteins that was quite a bit taller then him. When we brought the cows in that afternoon Fuzzy had injured the part of him that makes him a breeding bull. It looked awful, it was swollen and huge! The vet said maybe give it a little time to see but it never got better. I wonder if maybe the cow had kicked him or he fell and it got stepped on but we do miss Fuzzy. So the cows that he bred are almost all had their calves. We did get 3 black/white heifer lineback calves and then about 4 bull ones besides the 2 red/white ones. I think there is no more chances for red/white ones. When we sent the last red one away my son was quite upset so I think he has convinced his dad to keep this one. I am glad my son will be happy but this one will not be able to breed any of the younger cows just the old gals so I have a feeling I might have to take care of this one and it won't be anything more than a pet for quite awhile. Kinda hoping my son will change his mind. I have enough calves to feed already. Wonder what he will name him.