Introducing...

Last night we moved Ginny in th barn,this was not without her putting up a fuss.
After searching for her we finally found her,her keeping away from the group was a good sign that the calf was coming soon.
We called all the cows down from the Oak field to the barn yard and tried to seperate Ginny.
Usually her stomach will cause her to be first in line for the grain bucket so we bribbed her into the corral behind the barn.
Irene followed but that was ok because it kept Ginny calm.
Our new door came in very handy as we lured her through and into a box stall.
She was not happy and showed it with a big kick to the stall door.
We gave her a bale of second cut,this interested her for all of 5 minutes.

Ginny jumped and tried to go through the gap between her and the sheep...I was terrified of her getting stuck  or landing on my sheep.
Hubby got in with the sheep and pushed her legs back through to the box stall.
We then had to add additional boards for height so she couldn't try that again.
After chores where done we checked her a final time before closing the barn for the night.

The morning was very crisp,the ground was frozen solid.

At 7:50am Ginny started labor.
It was progressing quickly.
By 8am she had half the calf out but appeared to be having trouble.
I realized only one leg was out,the head and shoulder.
I called for hubby's help and he confirmed one leg was still in, a normal birth will present both feet first,then nose,head and shoulders.
Hubby gently manipulated the leg and just like that Ginny gave one big push and the calf was out.

I was shocked at how big the calf was!!
The calf weighed 10-15 lbs more then what we usually see for a Highland.
I thought Yeoman would have smaller calves then Lucas.

After momma starting cleaning her baby and it tried to stand I discovered it was a big red heifer when she fell over.
So here she is,minutes old....

I'm off to the barn to see hows everyone is doing...I will update you later with dry pictures.