HDRider
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I had just poured my first cup of coffee and I hear a calf bellow. I figure it is my neighbor's close up to the fence across the road.
Eventually my wife gets up and then she hears it too. She suggests I take a look. Dang calf in the front yard. I step back in to get ready to help it get back with the cows. A neighbor drives up and tells me I have a calf out, and I tell him I know, and point to it. He says there is another one up on another rode across from my steers. about 3/4 mile away from the house.
We put the first one in with the cows and go to get the other one. Sure enough, there she is. I get her put up and realize she is not mine. Could be, solid black like all mine, but it has a white tag in one ear.
I go back and check the other one, and it is not mine either. It has no tag, but I can tell by how the cows are acting and how the calf is acting, it is not mine. I have it in the corral now.
I have called around. No one knows where they came from.
It did solve my first question. Why did two calves get out at the same time from two altogether different pastures? Turns out, they didn't.
Nice brisk day for an early morning walk about.
Eventually my wife gets up and then she hears it too. She suggests I take a look. Dang calf in the front yard. I step back in to get ready to help it get back with the cows. A neighbor drives up and tells me I have a calf out, and I tell him I know, and point to it. He says there is another one up on another rode across from my steers. about 3/4 mile away from the house.
We put the first one in with the cows and go to get the other one. Sure enough, there she is. I get her put up and realize she is not mine. Could be, solid black like all mine, but it has a white tag in one ear.
I go back and check the other one, and it is not mine either. It has no tag, but I can tell by how the cows are acting and how the calf is acting, it is not mine. I have it in the corral now.
I have called around. No one knows where they came from.
It did solve my first question. Why did two calves get out at the same time from two altogether different pastures? Turns out, they didn't.
Nice brisk day for an early morning walk about.