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Where
The Beefalo Roam
Meet Curly Our 99' Spotlight Calf
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One of
the first signs that spring is coming is seeing all the fresh, bright
eyed beefalo calves bouncing their way around the hillsides. Calving
season is a special time for our farming community. Since there are
well over 300 head of beefalo as well as 100 or so other breeds of
cattle scattered in separate herds across our different farms, a day
doesn't go by without a new calf taking its first breath of life.
Unfortunately there are conditions and factors that cause occasional birthing complications that can lead to a stillborn calf, or the injury or in the worst case death of the pregnant cow. When the worst case happens, we first try to get the calves to take to another mother and if that fails we set up "day care" centers in any volunteering neighbors barn yard. Well this year we stepped up and became the foster parents. The day we found Curly he had amazingly survived living his first two days and nights on his own. We brought him in and got him started first on sucking powdered milk out of an old leather work glove. One of our neighbors later brought over one of the ceremonial baby bottles and we were on our way. 
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info@butterflyhollow.com
Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563