I bet you are wondering what this cat has to do with Girl and her wee one or ones that she is growing her body, but its because at this stage in her pregancy, her calf is right about the size of a large cat, so I thought I would put a visual with that image..

Its amazing to me that she is already over half her way though her first pregancy, she is now at a very low risk of losing her little one at this stage in the game, the next big things are supporting her health and the babies health in the coming stages, and then the big event, along with her bagging up and udder health..

I am needing to make the final call now on where her birthing area will be, I had planned on making it in her loose box stall but I am having long second thoughts on this, the reason being that there is a poo/pee alley in the middle of the stall, with higher on one side, then the step down and then the second side is just a bit lower in sloop then the front.

Given that she needs to get up and lay down, get up and lay down and that its a cement floor, I am quite leary about this being the offical birthing space, while its the most sheltered, I am thinking about seeing if we can prepare the loafing part of the back open part of the barn for her to birth in..

It provided shelter on three sides, has a dirt floor, and lots and lots of bedding area, we could clean it out, and have two or four large straw bales placed inside and then close off the back half, still allowing the cows to lay in there for rest and cud chewing, keeping it a comfortable place that she already enjoy’s using, and then as the time gets close, break open one full bale, spreading and allowing her to push around a second bale to her liking, and having the extra’s for after the calf is born..

So far so good.. steady as we go..