Yes, the HIghland heritage is obvious. :) In my teens we spent part of every Summer at a friend's ranch with highlands. Your calves are cute. The half angus calves the friends had were not so much...

On that note, how about Hamish and Moora. :)

I would become a vegetarian if I had to name my beef, pork or any other creature. I'm a total wimp. I love eggplant.

They're gorgeous though I can't think of any good names!

The one to be born next week can be Mohican, as in the "Last of the..."

So cute!!! I know you've already used flank, but how about Ben Flanklin?

I'd have to go with Spot. As in, 'See Spot run'. :)

Maybe you could name the girl after Ben. Ben-Her?

Or what about Ben Afflank?

Taco? Fajitas? Boeuf? Borgie (Humphrey Bourguignon?) Daubie? (Daube de Boeuf?) Brisket? Chili?

Patty Melt for that cute girl, and Longshanks for the bull.

'Patty Melt'... too cute!

How about Ben Grassfed? I hope I'm not punished for that! :p lol!

Bullet? Donald Rump? Jerky ? Goulass ?

dcarch

'Donald Rump'! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This should be a contest... with prizes... televised... yeah! :)

Deffo Donald rump!,

haha. Teatsie, Udderlie, IvanaRumpRoast. (I wanna), Ivana Teatsie ?

FrankFlank. HeirHoofer. TorosBolas, Stierkugeln, Balles de Taureaux...

Very cute at that age. My friend with a dairy farm, while visiting, Bessie had a calf. I then asked what another ones name was..."Bessie". All 80 are Bessie.

Tough business. He is now making fantastic cheese.

All Bessie....so funny. My FIL raised beef on his small farm. And pigs, chickens, occasionally a few turkeys. With 10 children, he raised a lot of what went onto the table ;)

All the steers and the bull were Joe. All the cows were Rosie. Year after year, it was Joes, and Rosies.

I love Patty Melt for the heifer.

You could call the boy Bullock Obama but he'd probably be nigh impossible to fatten up and would cost you a fortune in Marlboros.

When I grew up, us kids raised our milk cow's yearlunch calf and Dad would sell him/her for cash to get us through the winter. We named the last one "Carrots" because no one in our family would eat carrots.

That winter, we ate Carrots.....

Donald Rump, LOL, I like that. Bullock Obama too. (grin) OK, I do like Patty Melt and Ivana Rumproast for the girl. (snicker) I knew you guys would come through!

Seagrass, if I had to eat commercial beef, I'd give up beef, I'm so offended by the way those animals are treated and slaughtered, it's horrible. So I raise my own or I don't eat it. However, the only way I can eat them is to give them names to remind me that they are food, they are not pets. In spite of that, Red Cow is definitely a pet, after 17 years, as was Bossy Cow. But, since the only reason I raise cows is for food, I remind myself that they are dinner. I don't ship them off to crowded feed lots, they are born here, spend their lives here wandering about the pasture, and I make their deaths as quick and painless as I possibly can. I don't even truck them to the meat packer, I have a man come to do on-farm slaughter so they are never afraid, or separated from the rest of the herd, or held in stockyards without food or water to "clean out" their digestive systems. And I still cry, every single year. So, not having old cows and cute calves will relieve me of having 17 year old cows to cry over, at least.

All Joes and Rosies and Bessies, LOL. Dad always had a Hereford bull, but not always the same one. No matter how many, though, every single one was called Boliver Shagnasty. And that was way, way before Austin Powers!

Annie

That pretty little girl could be Betty Boeuf....

Patty Melt appeals to me, too. No, I could never eat any animal I raised. I'm a wimp.

Have fun with your new chicks, Annie. I have six Buffs that are about 6 weeks old and about to drive me crazy. I also have eight Gold Laced Wyandottes of which four are about two weeks old and the other four are less than a week old. The Buffs and Cuckoos I got last year are fat and sassy, laying very well. The older man down the road is building me a new coop so I'll have three. Life is good.

Madonna

Oh yea, Donald Rumpf! And you have to send a photo to the White House.

Graze Kelly ;-)

She's pretty enough to be a princess!

I would name the last one "Last Dance" or "Last Tango". How about Ivana Rump. I also love Patty Melt

Graze Kelly, : )

Bovanka Rump?

Lars, I'd give you, say, 3 million likes, if I could.

AnnieB., I love them all, even the bully, which I'll call 'Bumstead.' Or:

Macchiato - Italian for 'marked.'

Huracán - Spanish for Hurricane

Porter Houzz - for obvious reasons ☺

B.A.D. - Beef a la Diable

Toast

For the sweet girl:

Cowntess

Miriam Rare

Barb Acoa

That's all my brain can come up with right now. But I also like Peppy's 'Patty Melt.'

Sol

LOVE Barb Acoa!

I knew a woman who had a pot belly pig. The pig's name was Barbie. She'd say, "That's Barbie doll, not Barbie-Q!".

Graze Kelly, I like that! Elery is leaning toward Mooloinia Rump for the girl but we're trying to figure out a play on "Donald" so we'd have a "matched pair", LOL. That would put "Ben" out of the picture, though, and I like "BarbieQ".

Annie

Moolania and Done Well Rump?

"---trying to figure out a play on "Donald" so we'd have a "matched pair",---"

McDonald's 1/4 pounder Rump.

dcarch

Ooh, yeah, I like both DoneWell Rump AND McDonald's Rump!

Annie

"I'm so offended by the way those animals are treated and slaughtered, it's horrible."

Yah. We cringe when we pass through the feedlot capital of California down around Coalinga. Just unconscionable. We are fortunate to live in an area with lots of free range beef which shows up at our local burger joint and favorite market. Here's the view from our bedroom window as soon as the grass grows out there in the Open Space:

Last night we watched Pet Fooled, about how the pet food industry is lying to us, and they are not looking after the welfare of our fur-babies. It showed dump trucks of animal carcasses which are used for kibble. It broke my heart seeing all the dead cattle.

jasdip, that's why I cook for Emma. Majority of dry and wet foods are full of carp. And I have no trouble giving her the same dinner we eat.

I am good friends with a longtime breeder of Skye terriers. Now in her upper 80's, she started her kennel before commercial foods were available. They came about during WW2 as kennel biscuits for army dogs. When dogs were fed the same as people, they rarely saw cancers. Now, most dogs pass from it.

Olga came to the US when the Czech government was invaded by the Soviet Union. She, her husband and 4 dogs left. Once in the US, they would not allow the dogs in on the ground that they came from a communist country. Yup, commie dogs! Thankfully another breeder had two of her dog and pups with the line in them so she was able to start over. the original 4 went up to Canada. She still has the best dogs and the line continues all over the world.

Peppi, I'm assuming Emma is a dog? I feed our cats raw and canned. They won't eat raw completely, yet. I tried a cooked chicken recipe for them, they liked it the first time, when I made it the second time, and added the salmon oil (I didn't have it originally), they turn their nose up at it.

I swear, my next cat is going to be a dog!

jasdip, Molly and Sadie both get what Elery and I eat too. I challenged our local vet who told us not to feed "people food", that we should buy very expensive commercial dog food from him. I looked at the label which included "chicken byproducts" and then looked him in the eye and told him that I knew that was beaks and feathers, and that the preservatives to keep the stuff from going rancid were also unacceptable. Then I asked him to explain how that could possibly be healthier than grass fed beef and organic vegetables? He agreed that he could not, but said we should be sure to feed extra calcium, as dogs in the wild eat bones and dogs now do not. So they get cottage cheese as a snack at night.

Incidentally, Emma likes to eat at my house. (grin)

Annie

I don't think I would want to name any critter after a White House inhabitant. The animal might not make it out of calf-hood!

I agree about the grass fed and pastured meat choices. I hope to purchase a quarter cow locally later this year.

2 of my cats are extremely not picky, a third loves poultry if fresh (but no other human food) and the 4th simply prefers / only wants canned cat food or kibble. I buy grain free kibble- if humans can eat a Paleo diet, cats almost certainly should be on one. This stuff tends not to have byproducts although it's not a perfect food either.

Oh, Suzanne, I forgot to say how beautiful that view is, it's just lovely, even without cows it would be!

LOL, Artemis, you're probably right.

Annie

So Annie - what names were picked?

Well, we didn't exactly pick them yet. I had a Planning Commission meeting, then Dave broke his arm and my ex-husband had surgery so Ashley has been running the store. So I've been babysitting and doing notices for a public hearing and we still haven't named the beef.

Now I'm leaning toward a "governmental" kind of theme. Benjamin Flanklin and the girl could be Dolly Moodison. Or Eleanor Moo-sevelt. And last year's calves which were not named could still be DoneWell and Mooloinia Rump!

Annie

Ben and Her