New life

a brand new baby is new life on the farm

It’s that time of year, fall calving season has started! We are anxiously waiting and watching for all the new babies to arrive. It’s an exciting time to see if the planned matings will bring heifers as hoped, and to see the much anticipated new life running and playing on the farm.

I sat in the pasture and watched a birth this week. I’ve seen it before many times but this time God spoke as I watched and anticipated the arrival. I haven’t written in a while. Life has been extremely busy since late spring and most weeks I’ve barely gotten the have to’s done. My “real” jobs have had to come first and even some of them have lacked due to just not enough time. So for Him to speak and say, “Write this” was long overdue!

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A Sacrifice For Me

the first calf- the would be sacrifice

That little cutie was the first calf born of our calving season. We generally prefer fall calving. Cows and calves grow well and rapidly on hay and winter rye over the winter and into early spring around our part of the world. So that little fella was the 1st calf of the year. If we were still living under the Old Testament laws, we would have needed to bring our “1st” as an offering, a sacrifice.

I have been thinking about the sacrifice a lot lately. We, even as Christians, don’t think about the sacrifice very much. Yep, it was required by Old Testament law and we don’t live under that anymore, so who cares right?

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Needing a Little Fly Protection

heifer calf with horse flies on her nose, needing a little fly protection

Look at that lovely little girl! She’s so friendly and inquisitive! But if you look closely, you will see two big, nasty horse flies that were driving her crazy! I should have videoed her. She wanted to know what I was doing and wanted to get as close to me as she could. But she was so distracted by the two horse flies that wanted to land on her face. The flies didn’t try to land on her back or sides. She would shake her head and chase them off and they would fly and land right back on her nose. She was definitely needing a little fly protection!

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