You may know them as bum calves or bottle calves, but around here they are called leppy calves. Well, they used to be called leppy calves. Lately the kids have been calling them lawnmowers.

Each year we have a few leppies. This year we have two and the kids have had the responsibility of caring for them. Every morning they give grain and hay to the calves and make sure that the water trough is full. About a month ago, my husband decided to let the leppy calves graze around the outside of the corral. After the leppies had eaten their grain each morning, the kids would open the gate to the corral and in the evenings we would put them back inside the corral. This way the calves would have all day to eat yummy green grass.

All was well until the leppies decided that there was greener grass to be found than around the corral and on the side of the lane to our house. We woke up one morning to find two calves standing outside our bedroom window happily munching around our lawn!

The kids thought this was hilarious and promptly nicknamed them the Leppy Lawnmowers. My oldest boy eagerly tells everyone that not only did the calves mow our lawn, but they fertilized it, too.

I wonder how amusing he'll find it when he has to help me clean up the fertilizer this weekend?