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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1830318" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Ok, this good luck streak is freaking me out! I read y'all's comments, [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] and [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] , and I agree about getting rid of the two heifers. Been thinking all morning about how and when. So, I get a call from a woman that lives about 10 miles away from Scott's place. She is looking into having a concert/ hippy fest this spring, and called me about getting stage, sound, lights, and the bands. We have worked together before. Takes an hour to get off the phone with her, minimum....she is a talker. So, this lady is an animal lover from the word go. She has goats, sheep, alpacas, mini horses, donkeys and 2 minim Zebus. and about a 16 hand blue hinny. Plus all kinds of fowl, and raises homing pigeons. Takes in every stray dog she can find. So, she was yakking on and on about what this animal had done, the baby that one had, etc. , when it came to me like a bolt of lightening. So, here's what I worked out. We are taking her those heifers this weekend. She is going to calve them out, and we will buy another calf to put on her. II am going to provide all the feed. She weans our Brahma heifers, and she gets to keep the other calf,. She can milk them if she wants to and/or needs to. After we wean our Brahma heifers, she can buy another calf if she wants to. She has a nanny that has raised other goats, lambs, and a couple of fawns. She has milked it to bottle feed an alpaca and one of those mini Zebus. And she has had nurse cows before. I was telling Scott about it this morning, Told him this may be the thing to do with their first calves. And after she gets them trained well, we can bring them home next year, if they turn out to be another Gail. He said "<em>Hell, let's just leave them with her from now on! All we want is that Brahma heifer each year anyway</em>". </p><p></p><p>Zeke got on the phone, to tell me all about how the new cow and calves were doing. I asked him the question I dreaded asking: " <em>What did you name them?</em>" He said the cow's name is Whitey, because she is mostly white. SO far, so good. He said he named her calf Spot, because it has...you guessed it... spots. That's a good name, even though it is a heifer. Then he told me what he called the Angus, and I spewed my coffee out my nose! I don't think I can type that word on here.....y'all see if you can guess it!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1830318, member: 40587"] Ok, this good luck streak is freaking me out! I read y'all's comments, [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] and [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] , and I agree about getting rid of the two heifers. Been thinking all morning about how and when. So, I get a call from a woman that lives about 10 miles away from Scott's place. She is looking into having a concert/ hippy fest this spring, and called me about getting stage, sound, lights, and the bands. We have worked together before. Takes an hour to get off the phone with her, minimum....she is a talker. So, this lady is an animal lover from the word go. She has goats, sheep, alpacas, mini horses, donkeys and 2 minim Zebus. and about a 16 hand blue hinny. Plus all kinds of fowl, and raises homing pigeons. Takes in every stray dog she can find. So, she was yakking on and on about what this animal had done, the baby that one had, etc. , when it came to me like a bolt of lightening. So, here's what I worked out. We are taking her those heifers this weekend. She is going to calve them out, and we will buy another calf to put on her. II am going to provide all the feed. She weans our Brahma heifers, and she gets to keep the other calf,. She can milk them if she wants to and/or needs to. After we wean our Brahma heifers, she can buy another calf if she wants to. She has a nanny that has raised other goats, lambs, and a couple of fawns. She has milked it to bottle feed an alpaca and one of those mini Zebus. And she has had nurse cows before. I was telling Scott about it this morning, Told him this may be the thing to do with their first calves. And after she gets them trained well, we can bring them home next year, if they turn out to be another Gail. He said "[I]Hell, let's just leave them with her from now on! All we want is that Brahma heifer each year anyway[/I]". Zeke got on the phone, to tell me all about how the new cow and calves were doing. I asked him the question I dreaded asking: " [I]What did you name them?[/I]" He said the cow's name is Whitey, because she is mostly white. SO far, so good. He said he named her calf Spot, because it has...you guessed it... spots. That's a good name, even though it is a heifer. Then he told me what he called the Angus, and I spewed my coffee out my nose! I don't think I can type that word on here.....y'all see if you can guess it!! [/QUOTE]
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