Wed, 30 Jul 2003

A Real Rancher

Well, I guess we're in the cattle business for real, now. They got out today.

The Gomer (a bull of Kevyn's that was over here to spare Wolfgren the grief while she was giving birth) led our two Highlands out thru a hole in the north floodgate, up thru my father-in-law's yard, back thru my sister-in-law's garden and out onto Indiana 75!

Turning south, they ended up under the new bridge - a neighbor spotted them and managed to get them coralled into his paddock. Kevyn was in South Bend trimming hooves, and as we don't have a stock trailer we were pretty much stuck waiting on him.

Of course, everybody in the western half of the country either called or came by to let us know our cows were out! It was pretty embarassing, but most of the old timers seemed to get quite a kick out it.

On his way thru the gate Gomer had done a number on the electric fence, so while we waited on Kevyn to get here, I repaired the fence, then walked the perimeter of the property with a weed eater getting all of the weeds down off the electric. Needless to say, I'm pretty exhausted.

Once Kevyn arrived, he and Kris went and fetched Gomer, and returned him to Kevyn's place, bringing back Wolfgren and her new calf. Then they went and got our two heifer calves from the neighbors paddock and brought them home. All this while I was still finishing up the fencing.

Hopefully, it's a slow news night - I don't feel like posting any more, as even the effort of lifting my fingers is pretty tiring! Ha! If I had half a brain I'd stick to writing code - this farming stuff is way too much like real work!

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