Posted on October 14, 2009 by peacefulacres
Last Monday morning, oh, about 1:30am…..Josie started MOOOOOOOing and woke Honey up. I finally heard her at 3:30am and every half hour thereafter. She bellowed alllllllllllllllllllllllll day long. She was a girl looking for her bull. I was very very glad that our nearest neighbors were on vacation. And I’m [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by peacefulacres
YEAH RIGHT!!!!!
Did you really fall for that?
Come on….then you don’t know me.
I’ve never been wordless. Ask my father, who use to pay me 25 cents for 15 min’s of silence! Really. I don’t ever remember getting the money. Ok, maybe once!
I think Josie’s body condition looks good two weeks after we pulled [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2009 by peacefulacres
As you know my entire vocabulary has taken the route of cows.
On Keeping A Family Cow forum, it’s often asked for someone to comment on a certain cow’s body condition. As a newbie, I’ve found all the numbers more like scoring a swimmer in the Olympics….at least there I know what a perfect 10 [...]
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