Posted on 09/30/2019 2:29:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
If you've been sweating your way through the past few muggy weeks, it may seem impossible for you to remember a time when it was actually cold enough outside to warrant hats and scarves. But on June 24, a dairy farmer in Ireland tweeted out a pic of one of his calves sporting baby pink earmuffs, and the internet went wild.
"So it turns out ear muffs for calves to stop them getting frostbite are a real thing," wrote Twitter user @ThisFarmingMan_.
The post has since been liked 171,000 times and garnered more than 30,000 responses. But this isn't the first time we've seen baby cows sporting earmuffs like these.
This past February, a story about earmuffs for newborn calves began circulating after Holly Poad, the owner of Triple P Farm in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, posted about the solution her and her aunt, Kim Ewers, had come up with for their own cows.
The idea came to Poad after her family lost their barn in a fire. Poad was desperate for a way to keep her newborn calves from getting frostbite and invested in calf jackets and a pair of calf earmuffs. In order to save money, she asked Ewers — who owns an embroidery business — if she could sew some additional pairs. Ewers ran with the idea, coming up with the design that would eventually become Moo Muffs.
"The pair she was talking about was just fleece," Ewers told KWQC. But Ewers was afraid that if the fleece got wet, the earmuffs might actually end up damaging the calves' ears. So in addition to the fleece, Ewers added a water-repellent material to the outside and also included adjustable straps.
Poad posted the design to both the farm's Facebook page and on several show cattle social media groups, announcing that she was selling the Moo Muffs for $20 a pair. People clamored for their own pairs.
Because of the demand, Poad eventually began working with a livestock supply company that would take care of production. Now, Moo Muffs has its own online home, where interested parties can keep up with the developing brand and keep an eye out for deals.
They’re so cute, I could die.
A far bigger problem this past winter was the bulls. Vast shortage of bulls with reproduction capability. Maybe they want to invent something for that........................
Adorable
When my parents had a ranch in Colorado if it turned real cold in early Spring when calves were small he would build a bonfire. The cows would bring their babies in by the fire. Not sure what the learning curve was for that, I was too little.
TN folk must live a pretty sheltered Pollyanna life. ;-)
“Calves are adorable, too bad they can’t remain that way!”
They turn into delicious rib-eye steaks!
Sounds like he got a good ‘un. Give Beau my regards. Beauregard? Well, my jokes are worse than your friends!
“Maybe they want to invent something for that........................”
A very LARGE “little blue pill,” perhaps?
Comment was about the grammar.
We would sometimes bale our own oat straw.The problem was,you only get about 20 bales per acre.
Did not know that! No wonder it is hard to find. Plus not too many grow oats here, mostly wheat.
Thanks. Those are cute. We cut hay today and the neighbor’s cows staged a mass breakout. I guess they are sick of briars on their side of the fence. Anyway. The calves are really cutting a rug on all t
The new open space while their moms are munching i
On new grass we baled two weeks ago. I told the neighbor to let em play until morning before the tractors start up again.
Sure would like to buy that place and clean it up good.
Thanks. Laugh of the day.
Lol, yes! I’ve been watching a Longhorn Cattle auction on you tube and some of the babies on there are so cute.
I almost pasture your reply, whew, that was close. I'm glad you uddered it.
I hate scraping it off my boots.................
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