Another cow

After we purchased Maggie, the little heifer who will become the start of our dairy animals, we knew we needed to purchase another cow to keep her company. We came across an Angus cow/calf pair for sale.

Meet Filet:

This will be our first time owning an Angus. She’s not halter broken (a former range cow), but the sellers have managed to tame her down quite a bit and she’s friendly enough. Polled, too!

Filet comes with a very young polled heifer calf, also pure Angus.

We haven’t really chosen a name for the calf yet, but somehow I suspect she’ll end up being called Mignon. (Filet and Mignon!)

The sellers will breed back Filet before she’s delivered at the end of May. Ironically she’ll be bred to a Dexter bull.

Filet and little Mignon will become the base of our beef herd. This gives us a dairy lineage through Maggie, and a beef lineage through Filet.

Progress toward a homestead!