Finally Pemma Y had her calf. With a gestation time of about 262 days, she presented us with a gorgeous heifer calf at 11:15 this morning. Of course, we took her out of the barn yesterday morning since she didn't act like she was going to calf anytime soon. As soon as we let her out she took off for the woods and we spent the whole day following her around (I KNOW she was laugh at us behind our backs!) We tried unsucessfully to get her BACK in the barn and decided we'd just watch her. I watcher very closely this morning but wasn't too worried as she was back with the herd and pretty content to eat and hang out. At 11:20 I looked out the window and saw what looked like a baby yak laying in the snow next to her. Sure enough it was and we sped into action. Watching to make sure it was really alive then decided both of them needed to go to the barn. That was relatively easy. She backed off from the calf and I was able to get her picked up and carried to the barn but then Pemma Y wouldn't come so we took her back out and put her on a good bed of hay next to her mamma. Several times she came close to standing but was just too cold (at +16F) So we caught her up and brough her into the house for a quick warm up (it's been about 3 1/2 hours so far) and a small snack of colostrum. She's now warmed up nicely, has peed on my floor twice and can get up and walk on her own! Yay!!!
She is cute with a capital C! Now comes the hard part (at least for THIS yak momma) I have to take her back outside to her real momma...
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