It’s a ….
Beautiful…
Big-boned…
Baby…
BOY! 
Born at 11.27am, Tuesday.
More pics to come (I will do a slideshow after I have recovered a little – this pair gave me a teeny fright).
UPDATE: Slideshow now inserted below – the blue baling twine you see in a couple of these shots was something I grabbed when it looked like our girl had had enough pushing, and was lying still with two little hooves protruding and a very long, very still tongue showing between them. I was on my own and a bit nervous, and by the time I returned she had pushed her little bull calf half out. However it took a good minute of me banging his little chest and clearing muck out of his mouth to see the first signs of him breathing. I admit it: I might have had a tear and a cheer.
Mr I was on hand to encourage him to suckle, which he hasn’t quite got the hang of just yet.
I will check him later to make sure instinct has done it’s job. Now, if you will excuse me, I am having a lie down!
♥
Bay B?
18 Comments
MARLA
Yayyy!! Congratulations Bay Leaf… Hope you and Amanda are recovering okay
Colin Huggins
Didn’t take long. Looks like a VERY healthy
little bull.
Bayleaf looks like she will be a “dotting” mother.
Congratulations all around, that includes the photographer!!!
Ann Britton
He is just gorgeous and such an attentive Mum, congrats all round
Ann Britton´s last blog post ..Guest Blogger Paul Cox
Lynda M Otvos
Yowza, is there no end to the excitement that gets generated around your place. Living vicariously thru you all is exhausting…. Can’t imagine what it’s like to actually be You.
Congrats to all on a successful son. I’m very proud of you.
Lynda M Otvos´s last blog post ..Back Into the School Year Swing of Things
Roger
Amanda, you must of been watching her like a hawk, to get all those fantastic shots. It goes to show the lov farmers have for there animals. Well done & congratulations. The 9 month wait is over.
debby
Yay~~~ A new character at Granite Glen! I was looking back at the pictures of Bay Leaf as a calf last night. You get better with each generation. 😀
debby´s last blog post ..Working…
Kelly
Congratulations Bay Leaf on your bouncing baby bull!!! And congrats to the doting grandma. ;). I look forward to more pix.
Kelly´s last blog post ..Back Doors
Anne@Grit and Giggles
Amazing! I love the photos and I happy for you that Bay Leaf did a great job. It has been so long since I have seen a calf let alone a band new, still wet and slimy, wobbly on its legs one. Gorgeous little boy. I am looking forward to hearing/ seeing more of this fellow.
Anne@Grit and Giggles´s last blog post ..Early Morning and Some Confessions
Caroline
Congratulations grandma! And thanks for all the details and updates. Very interesting. I hope both are doing well.
Caroline´s last blog post ..Can you cure ALS with a bucket of ice water over your head?
jeanie
Congratulations – so, a Cayenne to add to our rack? I think Paprika is a bit too girly (save for the next one) – or is he more of a Ketchup?
jeanie´s last blog post ..The Family Meatloaf Recipe
debby
Bwahahhahahahahahaaaaaa!!!! Jeanie’s last post seems like comic irony: family meatloaf recipe???!!!! (Start with two pounds of very fresh ground beef….) Cayenne is a good name and goes with Bay Leaf. Pepper would work too. He’d have to be Red Pepper though.
debby´s last blog post ..Working…
Colin Huggins
God Almighty – the little fellow has just been born three days ago and already Jeanie and Debby have got the little bugger in a casserole pot! Well almost!!!!
Maybe after a little surgery, “whatever” the name might be, become a permanent fixture to Granite Glen.
Amber Rhodes
Good job! It’s always such a relief when they come out live. Always hate to have to pull a calf, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do! Lovely little calf!
jeanie
Tsk tsk tsk Colin – and perchance what would you with a Bay Leaf?
And he is a beautiful calf, Colin – he needs no plastic surgery to adorn the Granite Glen grounds. I mean, look at his Uncle Axel.
jeanie´s last blog post ..The Family Meatloaf Recipe
BB of Oz
Oh ‘Uncle Axel’ had surgery. Not ‘plastic’ mind you, but the surgery Colin refers to did take place. And Debby and Sophie… you pair crack me up!!
🙂
debby
Good that Uncle Axel had surgery. I imagine a whole herd of Great Danes loping across the vast outback….of course they’d all be running en masse because they’d seen a cat who’d looked at them sternly.
debby´s last blog post ..Working…
Colin Huggins
Seems that a lot of ‘snipping’ goes on at the Gfanite Glen General Hospital!
I think I now know why that rodeo rider, Jackaroo shot through to the US Rodeo Circuit – probably a safer place??
Anyhow it is good to know that Axel, who was not being used for “breeding services” has
seen the Vet.
debby
No, Colin. We’re kind of keen on snipping here too.
debby´s last blog post ..Working…