Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:06 pm
Today we wanted to move our three cows and one calf to a new field across the other side of our farm drive. We didn’t expect it to be too easy as we have a new heifer amongst them but she behaved well, in fact they all did except for the calf, he refused to move from the wooded area in the first field. I tried to stop them leaving the field without him but they whooshed past and once they had tasted the grass in the other field which apparently WAS greener they didn’t seem interested in my desperate pleas, not even his mother.
Chris made a valiant but unfortunately doomed attempt at catching the calf. However - I noticed that Spice, the old lady of the herd was looking about her in the new field. She would eat a bit and then look around again, as if she wondered where the calf was, so I called her, she ambled back past me, across the drive, back into the first field, bellowed like she was trying to wake the dead and then, bless her – she marched off and found him, back through the gate, crossed the drive and into the new field. Its not even her calf!!! I love that cow!
This was taken before we moved them Spice is on the right.
Stephanie :D
Chris made a valiant but unfortunately doomed attempt at catching the calf. However - I noticed that Spice, the old lady of the herd was looking about her in the new field. She would eat a bit and then look around again, as if she wondered where the calf was, so I called her, she ambled back past me, across the drive, back into the first field, bellowed like she was trying to wake the dead and then, bless her – she marched off and found him, back through the gate, crossed the drive and into the new field. Its not even her calf!!! I love that cow!
This was taken before we moved them Spice is on the right.
Stephanie :D