[unclebilly]

This morning when checking cows, we found a newborn calf with its momma. It was maybe an hour old and we saw it get up for the first time.

Then we noticed a cow on the wrong side of our fence… we went to see what cow it was and noticed it wasn’t ours. This began a series of calls to everyone around us with cows. Nobody claimed it or knew whose it was. We closed the gates on that pasture so it would be locked in until we figured out where it came from.

We headed back to the house and got ready to head into town to take my dad out for Easter brunch.

While we were getting ready, a neighbor called back and said he knows someone missing a cow.

An hour later, we determined that a guy about 6 miles away bought 3 heifers at the auction yesterday and when he got home, one escaped and he couldn’t find it…

We had lunch with my dad in town and then made arrangements for this guy to come get his rank heifer. While we waited, we tagged calves and gave them their shots.

When the guy arrived, we headed out to the pasture and this cow proceeded to break a fence and get in with my herd. We pushed it up and into our calving pen and got it locked in. This b1tch was so rank she charged a metal fence and popped it loose. I’ve never seen a bull do this before, let alone a yearling heifer.

We got his trailer backed up and I chased her into his trailer and locked her in. She is going to live in the stock trailer for the next couple days and then go right back to the auction. Nobody needs an animal like that in their herd.

I then spent the rest of the day rebuilding a fence (not the one the heifer went through) until sunset. At that point, my wife and daughter came out and told me we were missing a 2 day old calf… we searched until dark when we found it hiding between a fence and the chop building…

Tomorrow I will finish my fencing projects and maybe have time to work on my race cars.

Happy Easter. Enjoy your prime rib. It’s a 5hit load of work raising these animals for you to enjoy.