Thursday, April 5, 2012

Bonus Baby

It's a rich season, with grass and weeds everywhere, oats about ready to cut, two litters of kittens on the grounds (here's a picture of Carly and hers)...
...and then one of the cows gives us twins!  It took us a couple of days to figure out that there were 2, because we kept finding one in strange places.  We put a tag in one's ear so we could tell them apart, and then it became clear that the cow was favoring one and ignoring the other (the tagged one).  So yesterday we decided to bring the unfavorite to the barn and bottle feed her (I think they're both heifers), but we couldn't find her anywhere.  We searched until after dark.  This morning I was out at sunrise on the 4-wheeler and searched until 2:00.  I took a break to get some things ready for the weekend, and was back in the pasture by 5:00.  Under different circumstances it would have been a beautiful day to drive around the pasture, with wildflowers and grass everywhere.  Kathy joined the search on the Gator when she got home.  Finally about 7:30 I found her, and commenced following her around on foot trying to catch her.  At about 9:00, after nearly a complete circuit of the pasture, we were able to walk her through the gate and into the hay lot, go home for a rope and finally catch her.  Here she is adjusting to her new pen in the barn, which Lawrence and I built and I'm extremely proud of.    She got the idea to nurse immediately and likes the bottle.
Hurry home and help take care of all these baby critters.

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