Posted by Walt Davies on February 14, 2008 at 12:44:26 from (75.106.199.20):
In Reply to: O/T BAD Cow Disease posted by Turke Bros. Farms on February 14, 2008 at 07:10:09:
If you think this is a new thing then read what my Aunt Charlotte wrote about a cow they had in 1840s Oregon. Walt --------------- Roaring Rowdy was a big old spotted cow. Roaring Rowdy was all that her name suggested and more, much more. She was as vicious a brute as ever stalked its prey in the depths of an African jungle. Everyone was afraid of her. She would chase a man on horseback, would come full tilt for a half a mile across the prairie to chase him. It is a wonder to us that she was allowed to live. She belonged to us, but no fence would hold her, so she ranged through the hills and over the prairie.
One day, after she had chased Sister Lizabeth into the limbs of a fallen tree, Father said: "I will settle Roaring Rowdy." He had the boys build a big, high corral. She was taunted till she chased them into it. The gate was slammed shut and the vicious old cow was roped and tied. She was tied so tightly that only her tongue could move. She stuck it out at them and bawled and bawled. Oh, but she was mad. She rolled her eyes till they looked white and foam dripped out of her nose and mouth. She had a young calf, the boys had caught and carried it into the corral. We all went out to see Father milk Roaring Rowdy.
She went almost into fits. I do not think he got a pint of milk, it was as blue as though it had been "set" and skimmed. When he had finished, or rather given up, he loosed her, all but the rope around her horns. The rope was maybe ten feet long, she backed up to the very end of it, then shot forward with the speed of a cannon ball. A log chain wouldn"t have checked her. The rawhide lariat parted with a bang. Everyone scurried for cover, though no one need have worried. She made a leap over the ten rail fence that carried the top rails along with her. She had been milked, it was entirely too much for any cow of Roaring Rowdy"s disposition. She left that corral, she left our farm, she left her calf and even the country, straight as a crow flies, she went completely out of our lives. So far as we were concerned from that on, Roaring Rowdy simply was not.
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