Post by DostThouHaveMilk on Nov 17, 2008 14:44:49 GMT -5
I was outside getting ready to go over to my sister's to soap and there was this horrendous bellowing. I looked below the milking barn and saw a furry, black animal with a yellow tag in its ear. Our cattle don't have ear tags, of course.
I said out loud, "Please be a cow and not another bull!" Well, dad was standing outside the milking barn waiting on the girls to trickle in and he said..."It's a family cow for someone." "She'll give about a gallon a day and has nice hand milking teats." I didn't care as long as it wasn't another beef bull!
She's quite small, but has obviously had her first calf. She made it through the sale as she has a sticker on her. Either escaped while being loaded, or else escaped out of the pens. She's very unhappy. I don't know if she and her calf were pulled apart at the sale barn, or if she was taken from her calf, or if she is just unhappy about being lost. There are a lot of unhappy beef cows around here this time of year. All their calves have been pulled.
She's pretty tame. Kept following the cows up onto the platform ad considering coming into the barn, but then she would wander back to the other cows and bellow some more.
That makes the fourth stray from the sale barn since the end of July last year. One beef heifer (wild thing that had to be shot with a tranq to be caught), the stray beef bull that bred our cows/heifers, the Holstein steer and now this cow.
I suppose it is a good thing as it indicates an increase in the number of animals running through the sale, which brings buyers, which helps when we ship our goats, but I do wish they would rebuild/repair the fencing that used to be around the sale barn. It used to be a perimiter fence and if an animal escaped they could close the gates before it had a chance to head off into town...and most likely our farm.
Oh well. We'll see how this one goes. She should be easier to catch than the last two beefers. We just aren't set up to handle crazy beef animals. We handle dairy cattle afterall.
I said out loud, "Please be a cow and not another bull!" Well, dad was standing outside the milking barn waiting on the girls to trickle in and he said..."It's a family cow for someone." "She'll give about a gallon a day and has nice hand milking teats." I didn't care as long as it wasn't another beef bull!
She's quite small, but has obviously had her first calf. She made it through the sale as she has a sticker on her. Either escaped while being loaded, or else escaped out of the pens. She's very unhappy. I don't know if she and her calf were pulled apart at the sale barn, or if she was taken from her calf, or if she is just unhappy about being lost. There are a lot of unhappy beef cows around here this time of year. All their calves have been pulled.
She's pretty tame. Kept following the cows up onto the platform ad considering coming into the barn, but then she would wander back to the other cows and bellow some more.
That makes the fourth stray from the sale barn since the end of July last year. One beef heifer (wild thing that had to be shot with a tranq to be caught), the stray beef bull that bred our cows/heifers, the Holstein steer and now this cow.
I suppose it is a good thing as it indicates an increase in the number of animals running through the sale, which brings buyers, which helps when we ship our goats, but I do wish they would rebuild/repair the fencing that used to be around the sale barn. It used to be a perimiter fence and if an animal escaped they could close the gates before it had a chance to head off into town...and most likely our farm.
Oh well. We'll see how this one goes. She should be easier to catch than the last two beefers. We just aren't set up to handle crazy beef animals. We handle dairy cattle afterall.