Midnight Hank: On the Job

Young Midnight Hank, dwarfed by the hay rack from which he feeds.

Our new buck, now answering to Midnight Hank, takes his duties very seriously. The larger dairy does have an attentive and willing partner to pending insemination sniffing about their heels and tails each evening. During the day when they wander the grounds, Midnight Hank remains pastured with the female alpacas where his presence inspires (teases?) the smaller does just across the fence.

Perhaps one day young Hank will choose to pull his feed from above the rack, but not yet.

What I find amusing, though, is the contrast of Hank's size against the full-grown dairy does. He's little more than a snippet of his future self, prancing around atop a buck's hooves. Even so, he takes his position seriously. He is attentive to "his" does, checking frequently to see if the time is right. Even though he's a little guy, he already knows to reserve his strength for the most opportune moments.

Nature has made animals so much smarter than us humans. They time breeding to coincide with ovulation, no basal temperature thermometers or ovulation predictor kits from Walgreens need apply here.