inyati13
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PREFACE:
1. Mature Content
2. I have confirmed the veracity of the man's criminal record.
Clint watches after my farm when I ask. He does a great job and loves my cattle. Thursday he called me as I was on my way back to Kentucky and informed me that I had a "mystery calf" in my herd. The week old bull calf was nursing a heifer that had a month old calf. The black calf still had the navel thread attached.
When I got home late Wednesday, I called my neighbor thinking it might be his calf. Johnny shares a long fence line with me. The fence between us is high tensile woven wire with a strand of barbed wire on top. It is so tight, Blue has to run along it to find a spot to crawl under. Therefore, I doubted that the calf came from Johnny's herd. Johnny checked his herd and drove over to look at the calf. It was not his. Johnny and I tried unsuccessfully to bottle feed the calf so while Johnny held the calf, I used an esophageal tube and tubed 2 quarts of milk replacer into the calf's stomach.
Yesterday morning in the light of day, I began to sort out the "mystery calf". Tom owns a large farm that abuts against the end of the farm farthest from the infrastructure. He leases his pasture to an out-of-state guy named Jim. Tom sent me a text with Jim's phone number. The area code was 417 (Missouri). I called Jim. I left a message that I had a calf in my herd that may belong to him. In less than 20 minutes, I received a call from a man named Randy. He informed me that he and his brother manage Jim's cattle in Kentucky. I informed him that I had a week-old black calf that might belong in the herd he manages. He said that he and his brother would be over in 10 minutes.
The two brother pulled up to the shop pulling a red trailer. They claimed the calf. The older brother commented that I must be an honest man. The brother stated, "There is not two men in this country that would not have taken that calf to the stockyards." He said, "That is $500 to $600 standing there." They each shook my hand and before they left, I felt rewarded that I had helped two hard working shepherds find their lost lamb.
I called my friend Clint and told him the story. I was telling him what fine men they were. Clint said, "Ron, if I had known that those two guys were going to get that calf, I would have taken it home to my boys to bottle feed and I would never have told you." I said why. He proceeded to tell me that those two brothers were his dad's brother's boys. Randy had just gotten out of prison after serving 9 years of a 20 year sentence for second degree rape and second degree sodomy of his 7 year old daughter. He currently has an incestuous living arrangement with his cousin's teenage daughter.
If I had any doubt about the veracity of what Clint was telling me, it was dashed when he sent me a text including the mug shot of his cousin and his criminal record. Add to this that his brother who was with him is an alcoholic and dope head. Clint said his dad had 6 brothers. The brother who spawned these two men was dysfunctional and had been charged a number of times for molestation of two of his 7 daughters. Clint said that what went on in that family was disgusting. He speculated that these two brothers had probably been molested as youngsters.
All day yesterday, I thought about the fact that I had shaken hands with a human being that could commit these heinous acts.
1. Mature Content
2. I have confirmed the veracity of the man's criminal record.
Clint watches after my farm when I ask. He does a great job and loves my cattle. Thursday he called me as I was on my way back to Kentucky and informed me that I had a "mystery calf" in my herd. The week old bull calf was nursing a heifer that had a month old calf. The black calf still had the navel thread attached.
When I got home late Wednesday, I called my neighbor thinking it might be his calf. Johnny shares a long fence line with me. The fence between us is high tensile woven wire with a strand of barbed wire on top. It is so tight, Blue has to run along it to find a spot to crawl under. Therefore, I doubted that the calf came from Johnny's herd. Johnny checked his herd and drove over to look at the calf. It was not his. Johnny and I tried unsuccessfully to bottle feed the calf so while Johnny held the calf, I used an esophageal tube and tubed 2 quarts of milk replacer into the calf's stomach.
Yesterday morning in the light of day, I began to sort out the "mystery calf". Tom owns a large farm that abuts against the end of the farm farthest from the infrastructure. He leases his pasture to an out-of-state guy named Jim. Tom sent me a text with Jim's phone number. The area code was 417 (Missouri). I called Jim. I left a message that I had a calf in my herd that may belong to him. In less than 20 minutes, I received a call from a man named Randy. He informed me that he and his brother manage Jim's cattle in Kentucky. I informed him that I had a week-old black calf that might belong in the herd he manages. He said that he and his brother would be over in 10 minutes.
The two brother pulled up to the shop pulling a red trailer. They claimed the calf. The older brother commented that I must be an honest man. The brother stated, "There is not two men in this country that would not have taken that calf to the stockyards." He said, "That is $500 to $600 standing there." They each shook my hand and before they left, I felt rewarded that I had helped two hard working shepherds find their lost lamb.
I called my friend Clint and told him the story. I was telling him what fine men they were. Clint said, "Ron, if I had known that those two guys were going to get that calf, I would have taken it home to my boys to bottle feed and I would never have told you." I said why. He proceeded to tell me that those two brothers were his dad's brother's boys. Randy had just gotten out of prison after serving 9 years of a 20 year sentence for second degree rape and second degree sodomy of his 7 year old daughter. He currently has an incestuous living arrangement with his cousin's teenage daughter.
If I had any doubt about the veracity of what Clint was telling me, it was dashed when he sent me a text including the mug shot of his cousin and his criminal record. Add to this that his brother who was with him is an alcoholic and dope head. Clint said his dad had 6 brothers. The brother who spawned these two men was dysfunctional and had been charged a number of times for molestation of two of his 7 daughters. Clint said that what went on in that family was disgusting. He speculated that these two brothers had probably been molested as youngsters.
All day yesterday, I thought about the fact that I had shaken hands with a human being that could commit these heinous acts.
