My father has been farming in County Down for many years, and is thinking of retiring soon, so it’s time for the blog to celebrate my family’s long-standing love of cows.
It’s so much easier to photograph animals when they are not nervous of you. I’ve struggled to get any decent photos of birds recently – they all seem to fly away at the merest hint of my presence. But these calves were all around me, thinking that I was bringing food.
Distant Drumlin 
Will you take over the farming? We used to breed pedigree Texel sheep.
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My brother and I both found different careers. I just don’t have the commitment to be a farmer all year round. But my cousins are running an excellent dairy farm nearby.
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I’m sure they are the cutest in the drumlin! ;->
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I grew up in a farming community, and I used to really enjoy playing with the calves. Your photos took me back 🙂
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I’ve been having a discussion with my husband: which are more photogenic, brown cows, or black and white cows? He thinks black and white cows look good in green fields. So, same question that I asked Crazy Chinese Family in his comment, What colour were your German calves?
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They were brown and white. German cows have a distinct regional colour distribution: Black and white (Frisians) up north, brown and white ones in the middle, and tan cows in the “Deep South”, grazing the slopes of the Alps.
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You must have felt at home in India, coming from a family of cow farmers! I hope somebody who loves farming will be able to take it over. Please excuse my ignorance/curiosity – what is the story with the earrings? If it is info – why a tag (that can be torn out) instead of a tattoo?
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Yes the ear tags identify the cows. And yes they do sometimes fall out, and it can be a messy job to retrieve the one that falls in the muck.
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Lovely, funny pictures!
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Thank you. They are lovely funny animals.
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Just reminded me than I took a lot of pictures of cows when we were in germany last month. We had visited a farm with a few hundred animals there but it can be really hard to take a decent picture (the cows tried to lick the camera non-stop!)
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I’ve been having a discussion with my husband: which are more photogenic, brown cows, or black and white cows? He thinks black and white cows look good in green fields. What colour were your German cows?
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They were the black and white cows, also called Holstein-Friesan cattle 🙂
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I like your post and the photos!
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