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The hell with my indifferent cat - going to get a cow (Original Post) packman Oct 2021 OP
Those are some lucky cows. Most live horrible lives. Good for them!! mucifer Oct 2021 #1
Friends not food 💖 MLAA Oct 2021 #3
Yes! mucifer Oct 2021 #4
My Snuggle Cows BunnyMcGee Oct 2021 #2
Sure it's all fun and games BubbaJoe Oct 2021 #5
Or crap on you. lastlib Oct 2021 #6
Agreed! ChazInAz Oct 2021 #7
yeah, I worked on a family farm..... getagrip_already Oct 2021 #9
Yes! Cows always seemed to pick the coldest day to give birth. lastlib Oct 2021 #11
Some tongue action... ramblin_dave Oct 2021 #8
Good luck getting them to go in a box. paleotn Oct 2021 #10

lastlib

(22,982 posts)
6. Or crap on you.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 04:56 PM
Oct 2021

My grandfather had a dairy farm. When his health declined, he turned it over to my father, scaled-down. We milked cows most of my life. I cannot tell you how many times I got crapped on, peed on, slobbered on.....One was having a calf, but it was coming out backward. I had the skinniest arms, so I had to reach my arm up into the cow and turn the calf around, so it could be born normally. Nastiest job I ever did--still not sure my arms ever got clean. Also got crushed against a concrete wall by one stubborn old heifer that didn't want to go into that other room. When I eat a steak or a hamburger, it has a flavor of revenge. I'll take the cats & dogs.

getagrip_already

(14,255 posts)
9. yeah, I worked on a family farm.....
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 05:44 PM
Oct 2021

in the summers. it was my uncles but it was just him and his wife, so I got volunteered to work.

It is such a special pleasure to go to clean a cow's udders, only to be broadsided across the face with a tail, covered in dried turds and that was soaking in the manure gutter behind them all night. They knew what they were doing. rat bastards.

I've also been stepped on, shat upon as I walked behind them, got my boots stuck so deep in muck I had to pull my foot out and then retrieve my boot with my leg up to the knee in..... and the birthing assistant, or the guy who had to hike way up into the woods to carry out a calf that was born in the wild.

Ahh, farm life.

lastlib

(22,982 posts)
11. Yes! Cows always seemed to pick the coldest day to give birth.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 06:05 PM
Oct 2021

One bitter January night, with a cow due to have a calf, I was awakened by frantic mooing, and several dogs barking wildly. Sure enough, the cow had had her calf, and these dogs, at least two of which were a neighbor's, were trying to get it. I threw on coveralls and slippers, nothing else, grabbed a rifle, a shell, and a flashlight (a very dim one). Ran out to the yard, holding the flashlight, tried to aim the rifle toward where I heard the commotion from the dogs, and fired. I heard one brief yelp, a little more mooing, then nothing. The dogs vamoosed. I walked down there. The calf and cow were okay. The body of one dog was maybe fifteen feet from them. and I could not believe it--that dog had one bullet hole in its head, just above the right eye. I couldn't have hit it better from point-blank zero. I pushed the calf toward the barn, and the cow followed, and I locked them in for the night.
Next day, Dad and I had to go explain to the nieghbor that I had shot his dog attacking the calf. He was a lot more understanding than I thought he would be. But after that, he was pretty cold toward me. Oh, well.

paleotn

(17,781 posts)
10. Good luck getting them to go in a box.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 05:47 PM
Oct 2021

When I have shoe one of my neighbors cows out of our garden, she shows her displeasure by "fertilizing" our yard.

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