Sunday Stills - Animals of Husbandry...OH GOODY!

***Guys - really my internet (for a lack of a better word) Sucks. I have dial up and I get a lousy connection and comments are the hardest for me to leave. So if you dont hear from me I'm so sorry...I have loved everyones pics this week...I have to say this is probably my favorite challenge so far..seeing all the farm animals, sheep, goats, chickens, horses and cows, etc...always bring a smile to my face. I think everyone did a great job and had some fun and wonderful pictures! I'm supposed to be getting DSL in the next few weeks (they started last week laying the cable..hopefully comment and downloading problems solved)

Okay on to this weeks post!****

I must apologize.....I've got TONS of pictures for this challenge from this week and the past..I only posted some from the past for fun, some just too cute not too! Enjoy! This is one of my bottle fed calves Giant and my wanna be cow dog - Levi playing.

No animals were harmed in the making of this post! The calf actually loves Levi and they play all the time! Next is one of my favorite cows...Amy...
Below is my very first bottle fed calf - Oliver (he was an orphaned twin RIP)Amy again...she isn't camera shy at all!
In fact...Amy is a camera hog!

This is Molly our Percheron Mare who HATES to have her hooves trimmed...we have to use a twitch on her in order to get them done...no this doesn't harm the animals at all, it actually releases endorphins that calm them.

The above are a few of 2008 calves.
My two first bottle fed calves Anni and Oliver....just getting inoculated and ummm..Oliver got stripped of his manhood...he is now a steere. Here is his before pic..one of my all time favorite!

Next are Buck and Bella two of our gaited horses and they are IN LOVE!
Buck is a ham...Next....my two current bottle fed calves, Torro and Giant...and Pepper...yes..she thinks she is a cow...no kidding..
Momma and baby...one of the new spring babies!
My two boys "horsing around".

The Love Birds..Buck and Bella...kissy kissy smoochy smoochy!

Jack learning ground manners and the beginning of lounging

Some of the ladies we are blessed to live with! I hope you enjoyed them! I enjoyed taking them!!!!! now to read every ones..lets hope comments work for me tonight! I'm also using this post for a new meme ..camera critters!! New group and I'm excited about this one too since I love taking pics of my critters!

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ~Sharon Ralls Lemon

To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day. ~Author Unknown

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. ~Author Unknown

Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory. ~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

My Sweet Molly - Percheron Mare 12 years old, 3rd generation.