So we went with Cinnabon as the name of this beautiful calf, but she’s become known as Bon-Bon.

She isn’t shy about speaking up when the calf grain is being handed out, and she loves to run as fast as possible when we bring her outside.

Name: Snowball
D.O.B: Unknown
Family: Daughter of Rescue 911, Dam to Calfy.

Snowball is mostly gentle, though she’s had a bit of a hard time getting used to being milked. She still moves around and fusses a bit too much. We had a really hard time getting her bred, so last summer we put her out in the pasture with Mr Bull. That did the trick and the result is Calfy.

Snowball was a little scared of going out to the pasture at first last summer. For the first few days, whenever she saw a person, she would come through the fence all wide-eyed and stand next to them. After a while, she got used to being out there, and now as a milker, she goes out every day with those cows.

Name: ???
D.O.B.: 7/26/07
Origin: Daughter of Amber

When we bred Amber, we were very curious as to what her baby would look like…would it be white? Would it be red? Or a mixture? Well we have our answer. Here she is:

But now, we can’t figure out what to call her. We need some help picking her name. So what do you think?

If none of these names seem to fit, you can also leave us suggestions (or just say hi) in the comments section below.

Name: Stevie Rae
D.O.B: 7/13/07
Origin: Daughter to Sugar Rae

Stevie Rae is another new addition. Her mom is Sugar Rae…so it seemed to make sense that she would be Stevie Rae!

Name: Calfy
D.O.B: 7/14/07
Origin: Daughter to Snowball and Mr. Bull. Granddaughter to Rescue 911.

We almost lost this little one in the first few days of life. She didn’t want to suckle and was very lethargic. But after a lot of TLC she latched on to the bottle and now is quite the piggy and tries to suck on anything in sight. She’s also one of the prettiest calves we’ve had probably since Stella.

Name: Slinger
D.O.B: 7/7/07
Origin: Daughter of Flinger (doesn’t the name Slinger just make sense?), granddaughter to Susan

Slinger shares the same bull as Cookie so she also has a bit of bow leggedness in the back. She’s a bit of a runt but we’ll fatten her up in no time. She needs to be walked and exercised quite a bit to help her legs.

Name: Rescue 911
D.O.B.: Unknown
Origin: University of New Hampshire

Rescue joined Red Oak Hill Farm a few years ago and was ‘rescued’ from UNH because she milked too slow for their mass production. She’s a good cow and has the honored spot next to Sudden Impact in front of the fans which is a good spot to have in the hot summer months. She also has a place in our hearts because she survived a barn fire we had 2 years ago and a portion of her neck was burned quite badly. But as you can see she’s all healed and back to romping in the fields.

Last month Rescue stepped on one of her teats and pulled it plum off. She’s OK and this is actually a somewhat regular occurance on dairy farms. We had the vet come out to take a look and she’s healed up fine. You can imagine she milks even slower now but for all that this cow has been thru, she’ll be with us for the rest of her days.

Name: Cookie
D.O.B: 7/4/07
Origin: Daughter to Fluffy

This is Fluffy’s first calf and she’s very protective. Cookie is a bit bow legged and wobbly on her feet so it’s going to take a bit more attention and care to make sure she gets enough exercise to correct this small imperfection. She’s also shown herself to be an escape artist and likes to bust out and run around the barn.

This video was taken only a few hours after her birth. Her mother had already cleaned her off and she’s settling in well. Still trying to figure out the whole standing thing though…

Name: Gladys (aka Smokey)
D.O.B: 7/1/07
Origin: Daugher to Black Jersey, sister to Jersey. Because her mom is a Black Jersey (the result of a jersey/holstein breeding) and she was bred to a jersey bull, she came out a bit of a smokey gray-brown (thus the nickname).