Livetweeting a calf birth

Sometimes it pays off to sit at home on your computer on a Saturday night like a big dork. Because awesome things happen. Like dairy farmers posting live pics on Twitter of their cows giving birth. @NYFarmer tweets:

http://twitpic.com/zh719 - Calf is starting to pop out, hooves showing

http://twitpic.com/zh7wk - Wow, cow is ready to pop calf, hooves out

http://twitpic.com/zhadm - Cow contractions beginning! Will let her push 4 while

http://twitpic.com/zhbet - 1st cow contractions starting, will let tweets know when time 2 pull

Ran to house 4 glass of Bully Hill Pinot Grigio wile waiting 4 cow 2 start labor

http://twitpic.com/zhdt9 - Pull, tweets!

http://twitpic.com/zhelx - PULL, tweets, calf coming fast!

http://twitpic.com/zhfjx - Calf coming out! 

http://twitpic.com/zhi1v - A beautiful little heifer

http://twitpic.com/zhini - Newly delivered heifer calf!

Fast delivery, father was sire from Artificial Insemination selected from catalog of bulls

tweets, thanks 4 help, signing off as vet is yelling @ me to milk colostrum out and feed new heifer XX thanks again! mooooah!

Photo, naturally, by @NYFarmer. Via Twitpic.

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