Purple! Because Ice cream has no bones!

Sorry to hear that your family has hit a patch of rough & rocky waters John. I pray that it is something you can battle through and come out closer as a family on the other side.

Knowing that you are such a western movie buff, remember the words of Lone Watie, “Endeavor to Persevere.”

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Phil
 
PERFUMED COWBOYS:

So was talking with my son Logan yesterday and was asking him what he was doing. Got his usual answer "cowboy sh.t." What kind of cowboy sh.t? So he was grafting. He'd had quite a few twins so far this year, five sets out of 30 heifers calved so far. And thats a lot! But he's just getting started on calving for the year might have more. Twins seldom make it, one usually dies. So you can try grafting one of them onto a cow that lost her calf for whatever reason. This was something I'd heard of but had never done as it's not something that smaller outfits like we were, was gonna be able to do. Ya got to have the numbers. Anyhoo I was asking him about the process. So he'd bring the new and unsuspecting surrogate into a small pen with a head catch and catch her. He'd skin out the dead baby and tie it onto the smaller of the twins. Then he’d put some salt in the cows unhuh. This irritates said part and the cow thinks she’s just calved. Then you let the cow smell the twin with the dead calves skin tied on. The idea being that you’re trying to convince the cow that the twin is her calf since it smells like it. Once the cow starts letting the calf nurse ya can take the skin off. He had a couple that for whatever bovine reason didn’t work. He even let one wait for a while. Sometimes a tight bag can work wonders. But, in fact she tried to kill the calf. So Logan went to Plan B. Katy Mac, his wife had left a bottle of perfume in his truck. He got the perfume and squirted some up the cow’s nostrils and then all long the calf’s back. Worked like a charm. On both of them. Even the cow that was trying to kill the calf, accepted it with the perfume as her calf. Fact the next morning when he turned them back out she was running off the other cows that were curious. So if you are ever in the north country and ya see a big cowboy that smells sweet……he’s just been grafting twins.
 
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