I suppose this really isn’t that same as sending your babies off to school for the first time, but it does strike a cord in a mom’s heart.

The kids (calves) were so scared they were trembling.  But hard as it is, it must be done.  Cows are terrible about never weaning their babies.  I have seen calves as old as a year old still nursing, another younger calf nursing on the same mother and the mom pregnant with another calf.  Weaning the baby just doesn’t seem to happen in cow world.

Cows are the true “earth mother”, and hard as it is, babies do need to grow up.

In the strain of trying to follow the babies this cow broke the top fence by trying to jump over it-Bad Cow!