We purchased "two" March 6, the day after she was born, another feedlot calf. She has a really messed up hip and walked with a little hitch in her step. We originally called her hamburger because we didn't know if we could fix the hip and she wouldn't be good for breeding with a bad leg. We thought that we would raise her to eat. Which does sound cruel raising a baby up to eat, but with us trying to start a herd she would not hold up to breeding and probably would suffer on the bad leg. Plus it would help fill the freezers of not only John and I but also our neighbors that are also teachers. It wasn't until we brought two home that I noticed how little one actually was. Two was massive compared to one - I should have taken a better picture with size comparison. So, now we had two calves that needed care. It was 5:30 am bottles, with me running home from school during lunch and prep times checking and more feeding and then going home after school to let them out into the yard for play time. Then it was prepping for school and dinner and another baby feeding. Maizy was not sure about two and actually tried to herd her away from her one baby.
In the pictures is me feeding two with one sucking on my knuckles. In the beginning with these babies, one always beat two and then the tides turned a few weeks later. The second picture is both babies in the nursery. The last picture is a shot I took just before I left for spring break (wedding dress shopping). It was a warm night in April and we left the babies out for the first time all night long! They met me at the door around 6 that morning. The pan that is near One is calf starter, it is a high protein grain that is used to help supplement for the milk - they did not like it one bit!