Cricket
Ridin' The Range
After agonizing for the better part of 6 months whether or not to keep my Jersey heifer, I decided to take her back to the farm I work at. I brought her home because she was going to be euthanized for floppy legs and she turned out just fine.
Realistically, I am not up to milking 180 cows for someone else and then coming home to milk mine. Plus, she would have to be milked either at 3 and 3 or 9 and 9, which would just suck when it's -20 and dark all the time. Plus, I get my milk for free.
I took her by horse trailer and turned her loose with the younger heifers. She glanced back at me once, and joined the herd with great glee. (It was a lot like dropping off a teenager at a school dance--you know the, "you can leave now" look?).
NOW the kicker is that one of the brothers who owns the farm is having a health crisis which doesn't look to be ending well and my boss is talking about selling out in spring. AAAGH. Then I would have time to milk a cow, yet Peanut would not be my choice of breeding stock and I would be taking her back because she's cute and I feel guilty. Got 6 months or so to toughen up!
Realistically, I am not up to milking 180 cows for someone else and then coming home to milk mine. Plus, she would have to be milked either at 3 and 3 or 9 and 9, which would just suck when it's -20 and dark all the time. Plus, I get my milk for free.
I took her by horse trailer and turned her loose with the younger heifers. She glanced back at me once, and joined the herd with great glee. (It was a lot like dropping off a teenager at a school dance--you know the, "you can leave now" look?).
NOW the kicker is that one of the brothers who owns the farm is having a health crisis which doesn't look to be ending well and my boss is talking about selling out in spring. AAAGH. Then I would have time to milk a cow, yet Peanut would not be my choice of breeding stock and I would be taking her back because she's cute and I feel guilty. Got 6 months or so to toughen up!
