Today there was not very many calves… Only about 10…
But, when we were tagging in the heifers, a lot happened. Yesterday there was a calf born and his mommy loved him at first, but then lost track of him and decided that he wasn’t that lovable… So they were locked up all day together and she still doesn’t love him one bit. Then this black heifer had a calf that was to big and it died right after birth, but she still wants a baby really bad, so we took this calf from this stupid heifer, and put it in with the black heifer who lost her calf. So far they don’t love each other, but that’s cuz the stinking calf won’t milk the cow, the calf is just happy to be in the same pen as a cow, much less to actually milk the cow… Sigh… Oh, and then there was this 3 year old yesterday, cow W27, and dad said if she had had a boy, he would have kept it for a bull, but of course she had a girl… Anyway back to the story, she was a good, calm, quiet cow, but then today we were kicking her out of the Bam tree lot and into East of the 40. As we were kicking them out she wondered off, just left her calf standing there waiting for her so we could kick them out the rest of the way. finally after we got her to go over to her calf, we kicked them out (With 4 other pairs) but as soon as she was through that gate she took off, didn’t even look back for her calf to see if it was following. So, I chased the calf up the hill, while dad went after the silly cow… He finally got the cow over to the calf and she started to love him right again. Yay!
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