Feb 15, 2008

We have this cow....

We have this cow...


Living  here, we have met so  many nice neighbors.  They help out and it's just like neighbors should be.  One of our new friends raises beef cattle and in December he  had a heifer that looked like she might surprise us with a calf soon.  Because of the weather, we took her over here, he only has loafing sheds and wanted to put her in our barn so that the weather didn't get to her and her "soon to be born" calf.  Well, two months later, you can hear her laugh whenever I go into the barn.  She gets her three meals a day, inside, a pen that is cleaned daily, all of the attention she could want.  She's playing it for all it's worth.  I was ready to get a bull, but yesterday I went out there and I think she might be in the family way.  Her udder had filled out (again) and she was showing  other signs.  So I'm off to the barn to check on her and do chores.  It's still -21 this morning.  I hope she has her calf when it's warmed up some and I can scrape out her frozen pen first.  Don't any of you let your cattle read this, they might get ideas.


From Glory Farm.


Rhonda


 

1 comment:

SpinningMommy said...

Hi Rhonda,

Thanks for stopping by my blog. You'll have to tell me about your dog training program out there. I'm always interested.

I grew up on a dairy farm, and I can tell you from personal experience, cows will pick the worst time possible to calf if they possibly can. Especially if it's freezing cold and the middle of the night. Ours always liked to have them down in the middle of the swamp!

God bless,

Kim

Feb 15, 2008

We have this cow....

We have this cow...


Living  here, we have met so  many nice neighbors.  They help out and it's just like neighbors should be.  One of our new friends raises beef cattle and in December he  had a heifer that looked like she might surprise us with a calf soon.  Because of the weather, we took her over here, he only has loafing sheds and wanted to put her in our barn so that the weather didn't get to her and her "soon to be born" calf.  Well, two months later, you can hear her laugh whenever I go into the barn.  She gets her three meals a day, inside, a pen that is cleaned daily, all of the attention she could want.  She's playing it for all it's worth.  I was ready to get a bull, but yesterday I went out there and I think she might be in the family way.  Her udder had filled out (again) and she was showing  other signs.  So I'm off to the barn to check on her and do chores.  It's still -21 this morning.  I hope she has her calf when it's warmed up some and I can scrape out her frozen pen first.  Don't any of you let your cattle read this, they might get ideas.


From Glory Farm.


Rhonda


 

1 comment:

SpinningMommy said...

Hi Rhonda,

Thanks for stopping by my blog. You'll have to tell me about your dog training program out there. I'm always interested.

I grew up on a dairy farm, and I can tell you from personal experience, cows will pick the worst time possible to calf if they possibly can. Especially if it's freezing cold and the middle of the night. Ours always liked to have them down in the middle of the swamp!

God bless,

Kim