New Calf

willow_girl · #1 09/28/05, 09:06 PM

11 months eh?! Yeah, that DOES kinda make you wonder!

Anyway ... congrats!

uncle Will in In. · #2 09/28/05, 09:07 PM

Where there is a will, there is a way. She had the will and somebodys bull showed her the way.

Goat Freak · #3 09/29/05, 02:26 PM

Wow that sounds kinda weird, is there any bull around your place that could have done the deed?

Mel- · #4 09/29/05, 11:15 PM

I know I've posted this story on here before but darned if I'm not going to do it again

my dad had a pinto mare that he was keeping down on his dads farm. He had owned the mare for several years. my grandfather had no animals except pigs. no neighbors within 2 miles or more had any horses. yet one day out of the blue, the mare gave birth. either she or the daddy hopped a fence and found each other, did the deed and then hopped back into their respective fences with no physical evidence left behind. no broken fences, no bent over fences, no one spotted them wandering down the road. nothing.

Goat Freak · #5 09/30/05, 10:10 AM

Wow, that sure sounds like an interesting story Mel-. Sure is funny how animals find a way to "find" each other, by the way how shocked was your dad and grandad? Ha, I bet I would have loved to see their faces.

vtfarma · #6 09/30/05, 02:53 PM

Ooh, I hate when I have the senior moments. With all that has gone on in the last year you would think that I would have still kept better track. It seems that the father of all the other calves was butchered in October. I remembered that. I forgot we had a bull here for about 2 months November to January. It did not stand out in my brain because they were all supposed to be bred. So no mystery here just a very excited family with a red faced Ma.

Cute little bugger and boy is she feisty.

Goat Freak · #7 09/30/05, 09:16 PM

Well glad to see that the mystery is solved, sue was fun to read along the way.

JeffNY · #8 10/01/05, 02:12 AM

Ahaa, but i've got a story, well was told to us. The hoof trimmer came back before the fair, in early August. He told my mother a story about a Jersey. Well there was this Jersey heifer, up in a pasture with no bulls around. The neighbors did not have a bull. Well sometime later this heifer gave birth to a calf, it was never bred, no bulls around anywhere. Well, they said this Jersey calf looked like a deer, had ears like a deer, etc. Figure that one out!

Jeff