Posted by JDseller on November 25, 2011 at 21:11:09 from (208.126.196.144):
Saw Dave for MN post on getting his heifer back home. It got me to thinking about all the years I have been around livestock. Had some fun times around them. I don't want to ever be with out a few cows.
My first wife loved to fool with the brood cows. She checked them every day, year round. She always took them some treats in a couple of white five gallon buckets, sweet feed, apple peelings,etc. They would follow her where ever she went. It was funny watching her try to pick berries with all of the cows following her around. We had over three hundred cows for a few years. We would have to move them from farm to farm as they eat the pasture down. This was long before ATVs where ever around. My wife had a three wheeled bicycle with the basket between the back wheels. She would put her buckets in that basket and just pedal along slowly up the road. Everyone of them cows would up and follow her just simple as could be. I would ride drag in the pickup. That brings back some memories that are over thirty year old.
Another funny happening. I had a heifer that my kids had shown in the county fair. She was halter broke and gentle as a lamb. (She was born on this farm and is buried here too) When this heifer was 5-6 years old she started to get out of the pasture. You would not know it until she would come up to the shop and bawl wanting let back in with the rest. She never would go to the road and I could not find out where she was getting out at. It would happen once or twice each week. I about had a path worn looking for holes in the fence. Found out how she was getting out. My Great Grand Dad was living with us at the time. He was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He loved to work with cattle. He was calling her over to the gate and letting her out into the yard. He would then brush her and talk to her. He then would just go back into the house forgetting to put her back in. My sister finally saw him doing it. I just fenced in a small corner of the pasture with a small shed for the heifer and her calves. He would go there everyday he lived with us an brush her and talk to her. Even after he had to go to a rest home we would bring him out to the farm so he could visit her. He lived ten more years after he started brushing and talking to that cow. She lived to be 26 years old. I buried her in that small pasture lot under a big Oak shade tree that is there. She paid her way in raising calves and taking care of people. Funny how some animals seem to know how act different with people that have troubles.
So post some of your good times with your cattle/cows.
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