We have three bottle calves this year.  Laramie’s method of feeding them involves removing each calf indivudually from the pen and feeding them one at a time so that he doesn’t get molested by the other two.  Bottle calves are very demanding.  They don’t mind butting you with their head, wiping slobber on your jeans or walking between your legs.   Miss Manners could give them a lesson or two.  Their only concern is the white bottle with the red rubber nipple on the end of it.    My method of feeding is based on the least amount of time consumed.  I feed them all at once.  I hold one bottle between my knees and hold the other two in my hands.  My plan usually works, but not without complications, which are best left out of this post.  Last week I devised a much easier way to feed the calves.

Recruit six gals from St. Louis to do the job for you.  This is success.  Three smiling girls and three slurping calves.

My method did not work so well with our bottle lamb.  Bottle lambs are wooly and cute.  There is a simple pleasure in feeding one.  I don’t mind this chore at all.

However, I was forced to turn the job over to Jackie when she  claimed this lamb all for her own.  Bye, bye Woolie.  But never fear, you will be my buddy again after these girls head back to city life.

When four English women arrived at the ranch and declared that they had brought their onesies to sleep in on the cattle drive, I didn’t quite know what to say or think.  I had pictured in my mind a onesie.  You know, those one piece baby garments you give as gifts at baby showers.  They are nice little t-shirts which snap down around the diaper.  I was having a hard time imagining the gals laying in their bedrolls with adult size onesies on.  As it turns out, the image was not as bad as my mind had led me to believe.

The onesies were modeled for us the first night at the campsite.  They looked great in their footie pajamas and probably stayed much warmer that night than I was. 

I won’t embarrass them much further.  They posed for an excellent photo after the cattle drive in their daytime attire as well.

  What would you bring to sleep in on a cattle drive?