Hiding in the grass

[carragheendexters]

Here is a photo of one of our cute little chondro calves, you can hardly see him with the grass almost taller than he is.

My DH always says about cute calves that "they are just so cute you could eat them" and alas, that is what he is destined for.

OOPS! sorry I didn't expect it to be that big

[karenp]

Lower Delaware

beautiful calf, beautiful grass

[zephyrhillsusan]

I love it! He may be destined to be eaten, but he's going to have a great life grazing belly-high grass until then. (I know there will be winter and hay in there at some point, but I dare say he'll finish on grass like that, right?) What a way to go!

[lakeportfarms]

Great photo! I love the little chondro calves. They look like really small versions of full grown cows or bulls so early in their lives.

After our winter, and while they wait for our grass to start growing (soon) our herd is wondering what a charter cargo flight to NSW might cost for a few weeks vacation in such a nice pasture?

[ssrdex]

He is a tastey looking little morsel... nice looking calf and grass Louise. Looks so much different than most of your pics. Green!

[carragheendexters]

Thanks everyone.

 Karenp, Yes, our pasture is beautiful at the moment. It is amazing what can happen if you get some rain. We have had the best Autumn break this year, already had 10 inches of rain this year. Last year we only managed to get 14 inches for the whole year. Winter grazing will be good.

Susan, we will probably slaughter him at 5 months as pink veal. I have a good market for veal. Chondro calves are really good for this as they have cheaper slaughter costs because of their small size but have quite a lot of flesh on them by 5 months. He won't be eating much of anything by then, just still drinking his mother's milk with a little nibbling of the pasture.

Hans, I can just visualise your cows queuing up at the departure gate with tickets and passports in claw LOL. I think they would book the first flight out again as soon as the heat and dry of summer come around, needing a bit of snow to cool them down.

Joel, see we can do green downunder. Not too often though LOL