Herd Bonding and Guardian Donkeys

[Music] in a cow herd quite often you'll see the i guess cows licking each other i guess is the word for it they'll they'll go in and they'll lick each other they establish basically a family of and then that's that's how they establish their family by looking on each other's shoulders and withers or whatever like that so that's what mama's doing right there and baby seems to be totally full what do you think miss stoney ridge he's a cutie so we came down here just a little bit earlier and or well we looked down here and the baby was drinking from mama so baby needs to drink and sleep just like a regular human baby so baby drinks baby sleeps baby drinks baby sleeps that's it we'll get you a little bit more footage here [Music] what are you doing what are you doing this is susie susie what are you doing susie susie likes to lick susie it's okay [Music] it's okay we got a new friend we got a new friend susie [Music] so [Music] well guys it looks like that's the show for the day uh baby cow is stuffed full of milk so again we saw uh man you guys let us know what what you think we ought to name the little baby i i don't know what do you think i like cody you like cody yeah name them after wrangler star and then eat them later on that could be pretty funny so uh i think our little baby cow's gonna do absolutely great i'm a little bit concerned because our donkeys are right up there but they seem to be keeping their distance and the the calf has been really curious kind of wandering around the donkeys and they've left them alone so i think it's going to be good the reason we have the donkeys is to protect our cows and our calves if coyotes were to come into the pasture so any kind of predator donkey is the solution right there so one donkey will protect two donkeys will become a donkey herd and they'll kind of hang together and that's why they're kind of hanging up there instead of hanging with the cows so what we're gonna have to do is get rid of our little male donkey that's what's gonna happen guys thanks a lot for joining us here on the stoney ridge farm today we've got a new addition to the farm super exciting i hope you guys are