You’ve had a really crap day.
You’re in my prayers tonight.
Prayers for you and your family :)
I think your reverie was beautiful.
God bless.
When the first nuke was set off in NM, a herd of Herford cattle was accidentally exposed to the radiation.
Over the next 20 years the cows were watched and notes taken. One old cow, OLD GRANNY, who had several radiation burns, dropped I believe it was 19 perfectly normal calves. Only one calf died.
This was from an article in PROGRESSIVE FARMER back in the early 1960s.
***They do a low, gutteral bellering, hold their heads low and make strange noises,***
A friend of mine killed a cow for beef. He shot her, cut her throat and butchered her in the pasture.
Four months later he released new cows into that pasture. When the cows passed the spot where he had butchered the cow they immediately went into this panic mode with low bellering and pawing the ground where the cow had been bled out.
I went to a co-worker’s funeral a few days ago. I was shocked when I saw him in the coffin as he was younger than me. Many of us there miss him.
I also miss another dear co-worker who also was younger than me, and died of cancer. he had his whole life ahead of him but died so young.
i understand completely about the whole thing, believe me. This was beautiful.
(P.S. admirable breeding program)
(P.P.S.: I’m sorry about your brother. We don’t need to lose any more like that.)
Prayers going up and hugs going out.
I think you’ve had MORE than just a crappy day. Prayers up. Take care.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
So sorry to hear about your very bad day. It hurts to lose a favorite old friend, human or animal, in the pasture or anywhere. We raise cattle and have a few longhorns and Watusi’s but have never witnessed the behavior you describe.
One Name, my family raised cattle but I’ve not seen that behavior myself. Doesn’t surprise me. I saw some thing like that with our chickens.
We have several chicken and one was an old Rock Island Red we had had from the beginning.
We lived in the desert north of Phoenix. During the summer, and in spite of our best efforts to keep the chickens cool (short of air condition their coop)we would lose one or two chickens to the heat. The others never seemed to notice. One summer we lost the red hen.
We found her dead in the coop. The chickens were doing their chicken thing. My husband picked up the hen’s body and carried her out of the pen. All of the chickens stopped what their were doing and and watched Stan as he walked away. They were silent for a few minutes, slowly went back to their activities.
That’s the fist time I ever saw them react to a death. I think the old hen held a special place in the lives of the chickens.
The death of your cow is a double punch and intensifies the death of your family hero. Although she is an animal, she was a big part of your life and you deserve to grieve her death as well as your family hero’s.
Prayers for peace and comfort.
I know little about cows though we had a few once
I know about horses a bit....both are hooved herd type prey animals
And a mite quirky
My Hanoverian bay gelding beat the snot out of my Thoroughbred chestnut gelding two days ago
Lord that sounds snooty doesnt it.....like a Grey Poupon commercial..dear boy
Anyhow....TB had been pushing the big boy around and 17.3 Hanoverian bit the crap out if him in 7 spots
I went thru a lot of that aluminum spray and amoxicillin
So...that’s my tale on domestic hoovies for tonight
I do know cows love alfalfa like horse but damn is it high right now
14-17 a bale for really nice sweet stuff
God bless your uncle
Good men in America are dying off
My boys want a big registered bull for hell of it
I thought about some polled breed.....like a pet
But i hear u better have several water tanks
And understand horses are antagonistic to bovines
I can believe that.... horses are Loki like a bit
I have observed cattle nudging ones which were down, and a friend hit one doing just that (and hit the one in the road which had already been hit by another vehicle). It was a moonless night, black cow on black pavement, open range paved road. He saw the white face of the Hereford leaning over the one down on the pavement just too late to avoid the collision.