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This is the spot for your daily dose of cowspotting and where you can get to know our cows.

01/27/2023

A moment of appreciation of the perfect spacing between the door boards.

01/06/2023

Some silly morning photos of Kishori.
She accepted a role of a big sister to Meera 🥰

12/29/2022

Crazy Cow is back to the milking abode!

Shyameshvari gave herself a birthday and Christmas present - she sneakily gave birth to a baby girl!
We were suspecting that she's pregnant, but we didn't know how close she was to giving birth. The day we were supposed to move her from the bull pen to the milk barn field, she had a baby, and she disappeared with it in the woods in the middle of the night.

In the morning, when we came to move her and the baby, we discovered, that she went as deep in the forest as she could. 4 hours of sad attempts to make her leave the forest failed completely - Shyameshvari didn't want to go. But don't be fooled, she wasn't weak, she had all the energy, and she was only interested in attacking others and digging the ground!

Later in the day, the baby ran away from Shyameshvari, to join the other cows. We saw the baby, and lead it to the horse trailer. The mom, however, was nowhere to be found. Several more hours of roaming in the forest trying to find her. Only around 10 30 pm she decided that it's time for her to come out and join the baby. There's something about these woods, that cows never want to leave them...

This morning Shyameshvari was supposed to get milked, because the baby didn't drink all her milk, and it was leaking on the ground. She knows the drill - she had 4 babies before - but no, she doesn't want to go in the barn! This time it took us just an hour to make her go in the barn and eat - phew.
Thanks for not killing us, even though we know you really wanted to!

The baby is very cute, we bet she's loving the adventure! She already became good friends with the older baby - Kishori, and Shyameshvari benevolently licking them both.

The new baby's father is Shyam, our handsome black Holstein bull.
We can predict that the baby will have a strong fiery personality, looking at the parents. We'll love her only more if she turns up to be an independent troublemaker. After all, somebody has to be in charge and lead the other cows - not everybody can be a shy cuddlebug!
But let's give her a chance to surprise us. Maybe she'll grow up to be like her uncle Vayu - sweet and friendly, but also very regal.

We'll get more pictures later, when the mom is more calm - we don't want to make her worried by disturbing the baby too much 🥰

Happy Birthday Crazy Cow! (12/25/2012)
Happy Birthday Little Baby! (12/28/2022)

09/26/2022

Welcome to New Talavan, little baby!

Friday morning, September 23rd, Sukumari gave birth to a little baby, just before the Cow Fest.
Sukumari is a wonderful mom, and a very friendly and gentle cow in general. She's been following her baby everywhere, giving her kisses and feeding her lots of milk.
The baby is very sweet and friendly, just like her mom!
Gaurangi is happy about having a little sister, but she seems concerned about something. Our guess is that she is worried, that now, since Sukumari is back to the milking cows pasture, the neck bell will go back to her. Well, Gaurangi, we have plenty of bells, don't worry! But this particular bell might go back to Sukumari, because it has always been her favorite bell, so she probably wants it back!

Sukumari and her older daughter Gaurangi are famous for being very intelligent, kind and social. But they also like to be in charge, and they want to receive all the attention. They are beautiful, and almost aristocratic - you can never see them rolling in mud or being engaged in similar mischievous activities. They are best friends of people, other cows (if they are not competing for attention or treats), turkeys and cattle birds!
It's grate news that their family is expanding, and we hope we can make them as happy as they make us.

04/10/2022

TWINS!

Last night we went to check on Nila, and saw nothing suspicious. In the morning we found her.. with a spotted baby. We ran to grab molasses and calcium for her, but when we came back to her, she had a brown baby... But we were sure that the baby was spotted before!!! Well, turnes out Nila had two girls, twins, that look nothing like each other or their parents.
Nila and Shyam are both black, with a lot of Holstein in their blood. How are the girls so colorful is a mystery.
Well, that's not the only mystery here. One of the babies has a very strong wanderlust and ran away from her mom 3 times! One time she almoat snuck out to the road, then she crawled under the barbed wire to the neighboring pasture and got stuck there, and then she crawled under the electric fence and got stuck in the rye grass.
One time was already enough, so we were trying to arrange something to keep them safe. It's a long story, in which many people participated. It included picking up and carrying both babies from the corner of the field to the baby pen, which sounds easy but wasn't! Cow babies are born very heavy. Then, we had to divide the baby pen in three parts with heavy panels, to keep the mother from the mud, to keep the mother from the big calves, and to have space for big calves to stay overnight when they are taken off the rye grass... and then we had to hook up 2 water troughs, bring hay to the whole gang, make sure the both babies drink, put cream on the udder, kiss everybody in their fluffy heads...so much work!
But so far so good and everyone seems happy. The baby girls are very vocal, and they make sure everybody hears them. And everybody does hear them! All the milking cows assembled around the baby pen for staring competition! Nimai the little ox even climbed a cement slab to see better.

02/17/2022

Jai the Diogenes, the Barrel Calf
And Aradhana's...slim...figure

02/10/2022

"Hey, retake the picture and focus on me too! I'm a pretty girl, you know!"
And so we obliged. 🥸

02/01/2022

Citra demonstrating the first rule of Cowtiquette: You have to clean your face before breakfast! Don't forget to clean your neck too, and behind the ears, especially!

01/30/2022

Oof! What a month. Latest news: Our cow Rita started giving milk without any reason 🤔
She's Brown Swiss, 15 y.o., never had a baby, apparently got jealous of other Brown Swiss giving milk, and decided to join them.
On the other hand, she reunited with Kolkata (bull accidentally stepped on her tail...) with whom she came to New Talavana 10 years ago, and they were always together, until Kolkata had a baby 1.5 years ago. They haven't seen each other since then, because Kolkata was with the milking cows, and Rita was with the retired herd. Well, now they are together again, and they both feed an orphaned baby. Kolkata feeds him in the morning, and Rita feeds him at night.
Rita has never been to the milk barn before, so at first she was really agitated. But as soon as I brought the baby to her, she became very calm, and can stand in the headlock still as long as the baby is there :D Well, not everything goes smoothly though... Friendship of Kolkata and Rita is being tested by the argument whose baby this actually is. Each of them wants the baby to herself, only. Kolkata is being very jealous, but Rita likes the baby too, and the baby likes them both! Neverending barn drama...
Well, anyway, we're not sure if Rita is pregnant or is just a miracle cow, but we'll find out eventually. If she is pregnant, we have no idea how she did it. 🧐 But so far it seems like she's just a magic cow with a lot of motherly affection.
And Kolkata...well, she thinks that ALL the babies are hers. She always steals babies and secretly feeds them. She needs to face the reality, that she has to share babies with other mothers. Especially if she didn't give birth to them (babies, not mothers)!

Pictures attached: Rita, Rita again, this time with food all over her face!, Kolkata, Kolkata and her real baby Balaram, Jay (little ex-orphan, now he has 2 moms!).

01/11/2022

Our babies; Aradhana, Ranchor, and Jai. They love attention!

11/24/2021

Uh-oh! You've been spotted.

11/19/2021

Yudhamanyu making his bull face.

11/17/2021

A week ago we had a Waldorf school from NOLA sending their kids to our farm to see the garden, sugarcane and - of course!!! - cows.
We had so much fun. Everybody got to milk the cows and play with the babies. The kids learned not only where the milk comes from, but also how smart and funny cows are (:
Here is a gift that we received not long after the visit! So adorable!
Thank you everybody, it was very exciting for us too, and we learned a lot from the visit, too!!!

11/10/2021

What's "daylight savings" and can we eat it?

11/08/2021

Boop

11/06/2021

Baby Suraj enjoying his minerals and salt this summer.
We got salt trays for each field this year!
Thanks everybody for donations.
Also today we finished setting up an electric fence to separate freshly planted rye grass from the other part of the field. Soon cows will have rye grass to munch on! Yay!

10/26/2021

Got milk?

10/25/2021

Somebody is having a bad day.

10/25/2021

Another day, another baby 🤷‍♂️
5th boy in a row!
We transported Pancali to the baby pen yesterday, and today she had a baby. Good timing.
He looks exactly like Gaurangi's boy, so we have trouble distinguishing them. Well, they are half brothers, after all!

10/23/2021

Uhm...we were trying to make a pretty photo of the baby. I guess we succeeded?..

10/21/2021

Purnamasi and Mohini Murti have been behaving very good, coming to the barn on time and giving 10 to 12 gallons of milk a day, so this morning we let them join the herd and start grazing in the big pasture.
Some of the cows were stunned to see such big ladies, but Puja and Janmashtmi became right away happy to find new friends (:
Puja took the new cows on a tour in the milk barn field that we just tilled to plant rye grass, she led them to the water, and later they all departed for the big pasture.
Sukumari, our boss cow, is shocked that we didn't ask her permission for this new arrangement, and is stomping around, but she will get over it.

The other good news is that Mohini's baby finally figured out how to drink milk from the bag. Until this morning she was suckling on her mom's neck and demanding bottles. (:

Oh yes, and a bonus photo. Purnamasi had a salt and clay lipstick on when we came to milk her this morning 😆

10/19/2021

Dwibuja prabhu got for us 3 wonderful Brown Swiss cows!
Two beautiful mothers and an adorable baby girl.
Purnamasi (the brown cow) is 6 years old, she's very trusting and gentle. She loves scratches and attention.
Mohini Murti is 4 years old and she is a little bit skittish now, but we gave her some treats and... reunited her with her baby girl! So I'm sure she is very happy.
The baby girl was born on 28th September, and bottlefed since then, but we saw her today going for some bags...wrong cows, but she will figure it out (:
And oh... Purnamasi and Mohini gave 5 gallons of milk together! Finally we can start making srikhand and paneer again!
And one of the sweetest things is that Purnamasi and Mohini are friends, they follow each other, and Purnamasi is anxiously waiting for her friend to come back from the milk barn. They will be so happy here, always together, and never, ever, ever slaughtered or beaten, or mistreated in any way.
They will be given all the love and care, and they will get to serve the Lord from now on!

10/17/2021

Our dear cow Puja

10/05/2021

Check out the cream content in Gaurangi's milk!!!

10/03/2021

Finally! We have a new baby boy, who was born on the auspicious day of Indira Ekadashi, on 10/2/21 around 8:30 pm!
It was Gaurangi's first baby, Shyam the bull is the father.
Gaurangi is the sweetest girl there is. We used to bring her to Sunday feast and Cow festival, trained her to bow and walk on a leash, so she is very social and friendly.
The birth was quick, and Gaurangi immediately started cleaning the baby and feeding him with milk. The baby got up very fast and is already trying to run and jump, so we expect him to be a little troublemaker.
The other calves, Nimai and Surabhi are very excited about their new neighbor, but Gaurangi doesn't let them talk to him much yet (:
We milked her extra milk out, and that milk was a color of gold! We cleaned her thoroughly and let her enjoy her favorite grain with molasses.

We are so glad that everything turned out alright!
The only thing left is to name the little guy (:

By the way, the cow on our page picture is Gaurangi when she was 2 years old (:

08/03/2021

Just hangin

08/01/2021

Baby Nimai is being carried like a royalty to the milk barn by Narayan (:

07/18/2021

Welcome three new residents of New Talavana!
Moma cow, her new born son and a new born baby girl!
We got them from the dairy that went out of business.
Mom is still skittish but the babies are already trying to hop around ❤❤❤ and the little mister already found mud to get all dirty

07/06/2021

Balaram is getting plump

06/30/2021

Sukumari the slobber monster

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Videos

Playing tag

Look at him zooming 🥰

Shyameshvari and the baby

Shyameshvari is giving kisses to her adopted baby (: Happy Mother's Day!

Baby bull

We bought this baby almost 2 weeks ago. He's on his mission of getting chonky and happy! Check out the comments to see his belly 🤣 Drinking 2-4 gallons a day from his adopted mom.