Four new calves on the Wanch

Last week K7 and K8 took money out of their bank accounts and took the first step to becoming successful businessmen. Each wanted to take the risk of investing his money in a bull calf in the hope of making a ten-fold profit down the road. We went to a local dairy farm, and each picked out his calf and plunked down the payment.

That first night I was on my own, so I let the 3-day old calves (the black one is K7's and K8 owns the tan guy) have their last drink of fresh Momma's milk - from Darlin - after which they would have to get used to...  

...powdered milk from a bottle.

We went back to the same dairy farm a week later to pick-up two heifer calves (which cost more) for me.

All 4 calves are Jersey/Swiss crosses. While the boys intend to fatten up their bull calves as meat steers over the next 2 years, and then sell them, I plan to  raise my girls and breed them to Red to produce Dexter/Jersey cross heifers to sell to families wanting a small sized dairy cow on their homesteads. 

Later this week we need to name the girls and "band" the boys, and start halter training all of them.