The Old Folks Home

[politicalcenter]

How about a nice mini cow?     

The steaks ain't big enough.

 

[microchick]

I'd love a mini dairy cow.....with mini sharp hooves, mini sharp horns. Can still tap dance on your ribs and poke your eye out....

Man, I'd better stick with chickens.

I LOVE the stories, guys. Keep digressing, Deb!

 

[Alaskan]

The cows that commit murder....and the calves that get stuck and cause all sorts of issues......

That is why my grandpa always had Herefords....great gentle beasts and small calves that just slide right out!

 

[Beer can]

Those Scottish Highland's ain't very tall, sure do look meaty though :-D
Got a couple buffalo farms here, I wouldn't want to pet them.
There's a farm here in Downsville NY raises Watusi cattle with those ginourmous horns and Texas longhorns, and crosses of the two I believe. They own a restaurant in town and serve them, 'Old school house inn' .
When they bought the land they have them on about twenty yrs ago I didn't know what was going on, big steep mountain of woods accross from the school. Clear cut the whole thing! Had big dozers cutting diversion ditches. Next yr all grass, weird, then holy cow look at those animals!!
Was watching FOX morning news show couple yrs ago and holy cow! They were interviewing the owner and his friend some old timey country singer, Statler brother, or maybe it was a name that began with G brothers? Don't remember. And one of his Texas longhorn cows on the sidewalk in the middle of NYC! Don't remember what was special about the cow or why he was down there, longest horns or maybe some super expensive show cow?

 

[Beer can]

The cows that commit murder....and the calves that get stuck and cause all sorts of issues......

That is why my grandpa always had Herefords....great gentle beasts and small calves that just slide right out!

A lot of the old timer farmers here breed their Holsteins first calf to jerseys, smaller calf. Farm down the road from me doesn't. Always has vet there and dead calves.

 

[pennyJo1960]

When I was a kid we had Holsteins but Dad brought in a Charolais breed chocolate in color
but great momma's the calf's as cute as could be tried to tell me that was how you
got chocolate milk

 

[microchick]

I still roll down my car window on occasion and yell "Don't eat! It's a trap! Stampede! Run for your Lives before it's too late!" when I drive by one of the feedlots the Amish have set up for Jersey steer calves. They are just so darned cute.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Once in my late teens I saw a bull Rider get tossed then the bull mashed him up against the fence then into the ground.... The Bull fighters (rodeo clowns) couldn't distract the bull for the paramedics to get to the rider. Probably the last rodeo I ever went to up in Ramona.

Later on in my country and western days... Line dancing Two stepping and Clogging. I wound up dancing with a wiry fellow with a white smile big cowboy hat and a huge handle bar moustashe.... Oh boy as he a good dancer and good talker.... he needed a place to stay for the night and I said sure... Me 25 and knew better.... he looked about 50

During our conversation I found out he had been in Jail for the past 5 years in Mexico... He had gotten addicted to pain killers when he was sick.
Come to find out this was the same cowboy.....

apparently that bull had broken everything but his back.... in the course of self medicating he had gone to Mexico.... His Wife had scraped enough money to bribe the Federales and got him sprung... I asked him if he was still married.... Yep... Next morning he was gone....

Sorry SGC I am in a digressive mood these days

deb

Talk about coincidence!

My husband has been kicked by bulls and cows. One of our cows has horns and she always wants to be the first to get all the food and treats. She ain't shy about swinging those horns either.
She nearly got me once and she has swung them and my husband many times. He knocks her in the head and she knocks it off with him
Her horns scare me. I had to call dh once when I was trying to share scraps and she wanted to be first. I stopped that and started throwing them over the fence.
But really our cows have all been handled and pet as babies on up. We have kids come and pet and feed the animals sometimes and the people that come fall in love with our animals.
They even loved my Bourbon Red hen that thought she needed to sit on my shoulder or back which ever she could reach to jump on.

Horns scare me.

The cows that commit murder....and the calves that get stuck and cause all sorts of issues......

That is why my grandpa always had Herefords....great gentle beasts and small calves that just slide right out!

We haven't had the best luck with Herefords. My Grandpa had Herefords too! I love their look. And meat. We've gotten 3 bulls; 1 several years ago and two since 2011...same breeder. (a relative). The second one got ornery and was gone. The last bull was SO slow, always the last one in the herd. He eventually went lame and it took me all day to bring him in with the quad from the north pasture. Go a couple of steps and rest. Go another couple of steps and rest...lol. Then when I got him back in this little pasture...oh my he could run and wouldn't stop fighting with the bulls he'd been in with all along. Started ripping down walls, DH was

and

... the guys managed to get him in the trailer and he was gone. Maybe heifers would have been a better choice, but we don't bring in females anymore, just males. I really wanted Hereford calves.

This is totally unrelated to anything we're talking about...but does anyone know the best font for a document going to a crown attorney?

 

[ronott1]

I am very excited!

A BYCr from Newman California is giving me some Wheaten Am eggs to hatch.

I need some new blue egg laying hens

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hey, that's awesome!!!

Blue egg layers....