Saturday, August 10, 2013

Noisy new neighbor kids...

Camryn here:
Guess the five little heifers had grown enough to move to anudder pasture.  Mom says in their place are 6 weanling bully boys next to them in another pasture are another 6 of them.  For three days n nights they cried n cried n cried for their Momma.  Mom said it made her very sad, specially one of the smallest as he cried for a week.  By day 4 he was sounding a wee sore throated, day 5 his voice resembled the whale songs you hear from tv.  Day 5 little guy just kinda chirped, day 6 n 7 you could see him cry but, no noise came out.  Day 8 he'd finally discovered that grass was pretty good thing and didn't need to cry no more.  Mom woulda helped him escape back to his Momma but, didn't know which cow she was, or what pasture she was in.  Kinda makes ya tear up a bit ;(
This is one of the bully boys, Mom likes him cause he's my color...
 

The wee one not eating is the sad boy, he's also the smallest so maybe needed more Momma time?...
 

You can see these gwo have hunkered right down to eating.  This was day 4 of their leaving Momma...
The farmer man came over and gave Mom some of the meat from their cattle.  He said to welcome them to the neighborhood and since had can't bake pies he broughted beef.  He told Mom they took the bully boys from their Momma's sooner than normal cause for some reason they was tearing up their Momma's teats really bad.   Said the Mom's was glad to be rid of them on account of that. .  Their cattle be a French breed called "Blonde somthing", Mom can't remember or spell it.   He said they be grass fed, mmmmmm, I'm grass fed and similar in color!!!  Hope my long tail means no one will get confused and turn me into a side of beef!!!
Later


8 comments:

  1. Poor bully boys! That would make me sad, too! I like their color, too! If anyone comes near you with beef making stuff, you better buck and run!

    How is your fence coming along?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I'll do more than that, I'll fart too! Fence posts are up, Dad's getting ready to do the dogs part, he's measuring for my bedroom too!

      Delete
  2. Just remember if anyone offers you a holiday in France DON'T GO. They are cute. I used to live on a farm that had cows and bully boys. I didn't like it when they were loaded onto a trailer as I knew where they were going and they weren't coming back.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. So that's why they have a trailer over there. Mmmmmmmm!!!

      Delete
  3. Poor little bully boys... they gotta be sad to leave their Mommas..... you keep your eye on them Camryn, don't want them eyeing up your grass!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I'll keep an eye out onced I "finally" get to move to the new place

      Delete
  4. It always makes me sad to hear weaned anything cry for their momma's. It's heartbreaking :((

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I didn't realize a calves bawling actually sounded like "Moooomaaaaaa" So happy they've adapted now.

      Delete