Cattle Rack Rancher
Well-known member
I was thinking early this morning what a different life I would lead if I lived in the city. Let me give you a breakdown of the past few days. Friday, i was sick from work with a flu of some sort. This is the first sick day I've taken in over a year. Must be the fresh air in the country. After I'd spent about 2 hours on the phone because apparently me missing work is a major problem to the people I work with, I got a call from the local cattle buyer telling me that he had filled my order for the three heifer calves I wanted. Cattle are very cheap right now because we lost the American market and the feedlots are not refilling pens right now. My theory was that since I only have one open road out to my cattle, the calves would come off the truck, see my other cattle and run happily down the path to join the herd. Unfortunately, the calves didn't get to the farm until after dark. The calves jumped off the truck and headed hell bent for leather straight through the fence breaking out my corner post ( this is very hard to fix in winter in Manitoba) and then plowed through a second cross fence and headed out on the south pasture (this is not where the cows are).I have to say I was quite impressed with the speed at which they barreled through the two feet of snow that was seriously impeding my progress in following them. After following them for a short while with no success, I gave up and came back inside to continue with being sick from the flu. Fortunately they were back with the cows Saturday morning. The next night around 4 am, I got up for a glass of milk and spotted a skunk hanging around the truck. He slowly moved to the back of the yard. I went to get my gun but had lost track of the skunk. I turned on the lights and walked out the door and there was the skunk right beside the step (about two feet away from where I was standing). That sure got the adrenaline going as I dived off the steps and ran. Fortunately, the skunk was as surprised as me and took off in the other direction. I was shaking so bad I could barely hold my gun. But I was thinking as I was standing there in my bathrobe and my winter boots aiming my gun, things sure would be different if I lived in the city.