There is Always One — January 30, 2014

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I don’t care if you are working with cats, dogs, rabbits, sheep, pigs, goats, horses or cows…there is ALWAYS ONE!  That has to live outside the box…

Yesterday Mr. Davis and his daughter were helping our neighbor move his cows from Mr. Love’s place to two miles down to My-Way Cattle Company’s corn field.

Cows-out

You can’t tell it here, but one of the cows jumped into our field giving Mr. Davis and his daughter a merry chase up and down the fence line.  Terry went down to help and to see if our electric fence was still working (it was).  Seems the errant cow had also taken them on a merry chase just below our place…running happily through the swamp on Gennis’s land.  Once they got her back into the quickly moving herd she marched along very nicely, until she got our cornfield…HOP she was back over the fence galloping into the middle, standing there snorting frozen breath while they got the fence open and got into the field with her.

Then across the field she went, down to the end of the fence line by Misty’s house, back up the fence —by this time Mr. Davis, his daughter, two dogs, and Terry were all starting to squeeze her into the canal  whereby the up gate could be opened.

Out-1

NO!  Not this girl, no sireee!  DOWN THE CANAL she ran, ducked UNDER the bridge, kept on galloping to the end, and pushed herself under the fence to the other side coming out on our lane.  Two more dogs arrived from Mr. Love’s end of the herd, I was on the lane…she turned so fast dust and sparks flew off her hooves.  Within seconds she was hidden well in the middle of the herd heading north, right where she was supposed to be.

There is always one!

It’s acting like snow here, if we will get some I don’t know.  But all around us the mountains are socked in giving me hope for fuller reservoirs this summer!!

Your farm friend,

Linda

24 thoughts on “There is Always One — January 30, 2014”

  7. Was she an Angus? In my stepfather’s herd, it was always the Angus heifers that would seek adventure. Sometimes an old Hereford cow would sneak off into the brush and lay down so you couldn’t hear her bell, but it was always the little Angus that ran off with their tails in the air. Cows would be so funny, wouldn’t they, if they weren’t so big and capable of inadvertent destruction.

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  8. Yep! I have one too. And every time we move the cows, I swear that she is going to town, trouble maker that she is. And every year she has a wonderful calf and she’s a great mum, and she comes for scratches. And she is the biggest trouble maker in the bunch! Nice old cow!

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  9. Yes Linda we are finally getting some snow – well here in town, not a flake at my house though. As long as it keeps snowing on those mountains I’m happy! As for cows – there’s always one troublemaker!!!

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  11. LOL…we also had one cow that could crawl under any fence as long as she could put her nose under it she was gone. We called her Houdini. Glad you got that old gal settled in and with the rest of her friends.

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  17. Yep, we had one of those too! Both in cows and sows! Never a dull moment on the farm.

    Praying for snow for you and the mountains! It’s 73 here today then by Sunday it will be back in the 30’s. A winter roller coaster! Blessings!

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  18. Wow! I happened to see a cow jump a wall a while back, but she got trapped between the metal fence and an immovable brick wall… I was in such horror to see her trapped there I did a three house search to find who was in charge. I’d never seen a cow jump like that! I like your way better, horses and people and dogs taking charge.

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