Ky hills
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My father passed away from emphysema 30 years ago. I was 18 at the time and had graduated high school at the time.
I had saved some money before I started high school to buy some heifers for my FFA project. I had a chance to get some registered Charolais heifers and my parents helped me go ahead and get the group of seven. I worked in the farm and helped take my grandmothers places they needed to go.
Over the next few years, I was able to add some more to my herd, from selling calves.
My father had been declining in health for several years, and hadn't been able to do any farm work for a while. A hired hand and me had been doing the farm work.
Just a few days after my father had passed, the two legged buzzards started circling, to try to take advantage of the situation.
A couple locals came by to try to buy our new tractor at the time. A dealer tried to talk my mother into trading it for a smaller open station 2wd.
One night I got a call from a man that didn't identify himself but I figured I knew of him. He got right to the point of telling me that wasn't going to be able to take care of those cows and he was going to buy them. I told him that the cows belonged to me and were not for sale. He argued with me about that, and was extremely persistent and determined to talk me out of my cows.
I had enough and talked pretty tough which he s something I didn't like doing hoping he would give up.
It got his attention and changed his strategy. He proceeded to tell me again that I couldn't take care of cattle, and that my cattle weren't any good to start with and he would just be doing me a favor buy them.
At that point I'd really had enough and told him if those cows ain't that good your sure trying awful hard to get them and I hung up the phone.
I've often thought about that over the years. It's pretty low down when people try to take advantage of and make money off of people especially after a tragic event like a death in the family.
I had saved some money before I started high school to buy some heifers for my FFA project. I had a chance to get some registered Charolais heifers and my parents helped me go ahead and get the group of seven. I worked in the farm and helped take my grandmothers places they needed to go.
Over the next few years, I was able to add some more to my herd, from selling calves.
My father had been declining in health for several years, and hadn't been able to do any farm work for a while. A hired hand and me had been doing the farm work.
Just a few days after my father had passed, the two legged buzzards started circling, to try to take advantage of the situation.
A couple locals came by to try to buy our new tractor at the time. A dealer tried to talk my mother into trading it for a smaller open station 2wd.
One night I got a call from a man that didn't identify himself but I figured I knew of him. He got right to the point of telling me that wasn't going to be able to take care of those cows and he was going to buy them. I told him that the cows belonged to me and were not for sale. He argued with me about that, and was extremely persistent and determined to talk me out of my cows.
I had enough and talked pretty tough which he s something I didn't like doing hoping he would give up.
It got his attention and changed his strategy. He proceeded to tell me again that I couldn't take care of cattle, and that my cattle weren't any good to start with and he would just be doing me a favor buy them.
At that point I'd really had enough and told him if those cows ain't that good your sure trying awful hard to get them and I hung up the phone.
I've often thought about that over the years. It's pretty low down when people try to take advantage of and make money off of people especially after a tragic event like a death in the family.
