Welcome to the world, baby calf.

I thought something was wrong with one of the neighbor's cows this morning.  This is the same neighbor with all the goats. He doesn't care much about his livestock from what I can see.... anything on four hooves over there eventually gets onto his dinner plate, and that's the extent of his caring.

When I noticed that one of his cows was just resting underneath a tree all morning, I figured I would just keep an eye on her for a while, rather than driving over there to alert the neighbor. This afternoon after lunch, after an entire morning of laying down under that tree, the mama cow got up, followed shortly thereafter by a baby calf. As cute as can be, with the same dark coloring and white face of the mama cow.

The baby calf wobbled a great deal before being able to walk over to its mother, and that wobbling caught the attention of a young brown calf who went over to meet the new baby. A few minutes of inspecting the just-born calf, and the young calf was prancing around it like a puppy, clearly wanting to play. The little baby calf only wanted his mama's milk at that point, and had no interest whatsoever in romping around with his little brown calf.

All afternoon, that mama cow and the baby calf, along with the young brown calf, have been resting in the shade under a tree, far away from the rest of the herd. The just-born calf will wobble over to its mama from time to time, but it's mostly sleeping and resting, getting acquainted with the world over there in its pasture.