That's Farm Life

Life on the farm isn't always pleasant.  Things happen.  We had one of those things happen last Friday.  One of our cows went down.  She appeared to have a spinal injury.  We treated her with an anti inflammatory and waited.  Well, she never showed any improvement and today we put her down.  No, I'm not particularly attached to these cows.  They're pretty cows, nice, friendly cows, but they're our income on the farm.  We had this girl butchered today and it looks like she's going to be good hamburger.  I am so thankful that she's not going to be wasted.  We had no cattle to butcher this year and now we do.  Thank you Lord.

You should  have seen my children out there with the butcher as he showed them the organs and explained his findings.  Seems our cow had a heart problem and had some calcification causing a large blockage in her heart.  So went the biology lesson today.

 Later, after the butcher had left, my children went out and cut up the gut pile and hauled it away into the woods.  My son said he doesn't thing anything will ever gross him out again.  Way to go guys. 
So, no pictures today, and I'd be pretty thankful for that.