Dave
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So I have the place for sale. The only cows here are a freezer bound heifer and a teen preg heifer. The bred one is plenty big to calf on her own but has looked like she could calf at any time for about two weeks. So yesterday afternoon a realtor calls saying they are bring a potential buyer over to look at the place. The wife is on jury duty so I put my minimum house keeping skills to work straightening up everything.
The realtor shows up about the same time the wife gets home. We show the people the house. Walk out back to the garden, orchard, tool shed, etc. When we get to the corral there is the calve heifer standing with just a calf head hanging out. One glance I can tell that the calf is dead. Great I get to pull a dead calf out of a heifer in front of these potential home buyers who are probably city people. I run and get the wife to go show them the pasture and down to the creek. Mean while I set up gates to get her into the chute, gather gloves and the calf jack. I open the chute up for the first time in several months only to find that bees built a nest in it. I get stung twice. Quick trip to the shed for bee spray. About then the wife a company come back from the creek. The heifer decides to lay down in the swipe tub. I walked with the people back to their vehicles. I assure them that everything will be alright. "We have handled much worse." They leave, the wife and I go back and pull the dead calf. The heifer gets up and appears to be OK.
So I lost a calf, maybe a potential buyer, and got stung twice by bees. All within a fairly short time. But if bad luck comes in threes I am in great shape now.
The realtor shows up about the same time the wife gets home. We show the people the house. Walk out back to the garden, orchard, tool shed, etc. When we get to the corral there is the calve heifer standing with just a calf head hanging out. One glance I can tell that the calf is dead. Great I get to pull a dead calf out of a heifer in front of these potential home buyers who are probably city people. I run and get the wife to go show them the pasture and down to the creek. Mean while I set up gates to get her into the chute, gather gloves and the calf jack. I open the chute up for the first time in several months only to find that bees built a nest in it. I get stung twice. Quick trip to the shed for bee spray. About then the wife a company come back from the creek. The heifer decides to lay down in the swipe tub. I walked with the people back to their vehicles. I assure them that everything will be alright. "We have handled much worse." They leave, the wife and I go back and pull the dead calf. The heifer gets up and appears to be OK.
So I lost a calf, maybe a potential buyer, and got stung twice by bees. All within a fairly short time. But if bad luck comes in threes I am in great shape now.