Summertime Red Poll Girls (And One Boy)

This is Gracie. Her calf, Gladys, is doing fine and has begun eating grain already:

An afternoon snooze, surrounded by buttercups:

The herd has surely grown. There only used to be five of them, but now there are ten:

Merlin, Jasmine's little bull calf, at three days old:

The cattle seem to enjoy the north field and get friendlier when they are there, often standing by the fence to watch for cars. But that field is now off limits so it can grow hay for cutting:

The girls, greeting passersby:

Life is good in the summertime:

Violet and her calf, Annie, with the still pregnant Jasmine behind them:

Gathered by the stock tank for a cool drink after having a bit of grain:

Gladys and Loretta at play:

Annie, already seemingly half her mother's size, nursing. That's Jasmine beside them:

I saved this picture for last. That's Rosella eating her grain. She obviously had been standing or sleeping too close to the back end of one of the big cows. Needless to say, I didn't pet her for a week or so: