Dustin had a bit of a surprise last week. When he was out checking cattle, he discovered that a two week old calf was missing. He took the four wheeler and went looking for the missing calf. He was unable to find it, so he ran all of the cattle up to the homestead and sorted off the mother of the missing calf and turned her out into the pasture on her own. Dustin followed her down to the back corner of the pasture and found the cow, who had returned to her calf. Dustin was relieved, however-as he got closer, he noticed another calf!
So he ran the cow and two calves up to the homestead and #10 (a cow that was supposed to calve on April 23rd according to the A.I. chart) was raising "hell". So Dustin concluded that this "Surprise" calf must be hers. He penned them up together and the surprise calf instantly went over to his mom.
Dustin and took the girls over to visit the new calves this past weekend.
There is never a dull moment!
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| Verayna checking out the cows in her cow outfit! |
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| Olivia "cheesing" it up for the camera |
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| Our SURPRISE bull calf |
That's a great looking calf. How many cows does your family have?
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Thanks Crystal, we think so! We have 16 cows, 4 calves and a bull.
ReplyDeleteThat great. My fiance' has a small Hereford herd in Eastern Iowa.
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