Thursday, May 7, 2009

Our first calf ever!

Our first calf ever to be born here on the 2811 was born early this morning. Sweet Pea is the momma and both seem to be doing fine. I just had a conversation yesterday with a friend who raises cattle and he said how much trouble heifers can be with their first calf so it is truly a blessing to just wake up and see a beautiful baby calf standing there next to its Mother. It is a boy so now I have to figure out this "steering" procedure!
Posted by Matthew at 8:05 AM

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Welcome!

Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).