I was told many times that if you have "livestock" you will then have "deadstock".
Life and death on the farm is so apparent and "in your face".   The little calf that Polly had did not survive the weekend!  Now we need to take a good look at Polly.  She appeared to be caring for her baby, like the good mom she is, and it certainly looked like the baby was nursing effortlessly. But that must not have been the case. :-(
Her front two teats were large and full of milk and the back two shrivelled as if the baby had been nursing regularly.  We are not sure, but perhaps they were actually non-functioning. Neil doesn't want to take the risk just now to approach Polly and check her out. She is very skittish.  Hasn't been a very good year so far. Kileedy had a baby which we had to pass on to Mark to care for as she cannot nurse at all and now Polly.
Neil has decided to cross breed our Highlands with one of Dave's Angus.  They do not have horns, making them a bit easier to handle. We don't have any bulls on our property just now.  We have loaned our big, black bull Rembrandt,  to Joanne and I am happy he is not here anyway. He is too hard to control and loves to go wherever he wants, through fences at will. 

The weather is finally becoming more spring-like with temperatures expected to be in the low twenties this afternoon.  But with the warm temperatures comes rain! Oh well, better than freezing rain and snow!