Our first dun - nice surprise

carole · Post by **carole** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:18 pm

Had a nice surprise today, went to check the mums and tots and one of our heifers was standing there pleased as punch with her little dun calf, after 4 years this was our first dun calf. (I put 'dun' in the search box and have just spent 30 minutes and several glasses of wine going through 5 pages of results and as result of the searching or the wine I am fairly convinced he is a 'proper dun'). Please I don't want to start the great debate about how you get a dun, I think it is covered amply elsewhere. Anyway just wanted to tell everyone. Much happier news after we lost our young bull last month.

Saffy · Post by **Saffy** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:00 am

Congratulations Carole - wonderful news!!! :D

Heres hoping there are many more equally happy and exciting Dexter moments in the years to come.

carole · Post by **carole** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:42 am

thanks for your kind words. We have hit a small problem, having a dun calf in a 12 acre field with everything else turning brown has presented a few 'challenges'. Having spent 40 minutes one day and 20 the next trying to find him amongst the hedgerows (mother was looking vaguely in the right direction but I had a nasty feeling she really didn't have much idea) we decided to bring him into the barn. I wish everything was as easy to load into a trailer as a mother in hot pursuit of her calf although I don't think my son necessarily agreed as he exited the trailer fairly swiftly through the front door, having carried the calf up the hill.

Inger · Post by **Inger** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:30 pm

I thought Dun would be easy to see against green paddocks? I know our Red calves are.