I have returned from Spring Break and we have baby kittens at the farm! Ordinarily my posts are very focused on my work alongside the cattle at our farm, but I do like to add an occasional post about the other critters I work with which includes our barn cats. Last Summer I made a post about a cat called Ketchup that had several baby kittens on our farm and this Spring Ketchup and another friendly barn cat called Floofy both had a litter of kittens. There were three adorable kittens from both female cats, and the most bizarre thing about this is that Ketchup and Floofy keep their total of six kittens all together and share the same responsibilities of caring for the little babies. Typically a female cat with care for her kittens away from others so this dynamic that our female cats have is rather special. Ketchup and Floofy will both nurse the six kittens and at times I have seen them in the nursing box together! I have never heard of female cats co-parenting like these two are, but it seems as though it is working exceptionally well as the baby kittens have very round tummies 😉. For now, we are going to continue to monitor the growth of these kittens closely and eventually search for forever homes. Here is a video of the babies crawling in the pen as they learn to move around.
Today we had 1 heifer calf born.
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