Buttons is a sweet little 5-month old Jersey calf. We drove to Monterey, TN to pick her up yesterday. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find a Jersey calf or cow around here. It was a grueling 7 hour trip one-way, and worse on the way back. I was so worried that she'd be too cold in the trailer for 7 hours. We stopped several times to check on her, but she did fine. We also stopped a couple of times because the cable that hooks the trailer to the truck brake lights came unplugged. When that happened, the trailer brakes engaged so we had smoking brakes and a REALLY bumpy couple of seconds before we got pulled off the highway. It was also extremely scary going over the bridges over the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, especially after having had the brake cable troubles with the trailer. No shoulder on the bridges would have made for a dangerous situation had the cable popped out again going over the bumps and potholes. We made it fine, though.
We didn't get home until 10pm and had to turn poor Buttons loose in the field with Buttercup in the dark. I was worried that Buttercup would be her normal grumpy self and not let Buttons into the barn. I worried for nothing, though; Buttercup adored her from the very first second she met her.
Today out taking pictures I noticed that Buttons was quite intrigued with what looked like a milk buffet. The buffet was closed, though, and she quickly lost interest.
The puppies meet Buttons:
The goats meet Buttons:
Buttons will need to be bred when she's 15 months old in order to have her first calf when she's 24 months old. So we'll begin around November looking for a boyfriend.
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