sTuPiD cOwS

Good grief it's been a while. I think I was doing a better job at posting when we were in the corn field than I am now that we have all the corn planted.  I thought things would slow down once we got the corn planted, but to be honest we have been goin' like crazy working cattle.

And the days we aren't working cattle we have been going like crazy trying to catch up on everything else...

For me that means laundry and cleaning the house, which involved cleaning the spare bedroom / soon to be baby room so my parents would have a place to sleep. I soo meant to take a picture of it cause well it was a disaster you couldn't see the bed or the floor...

and the sad thing is no one sleeps in there now...yikes!

Throw in Easter with all the family get together's that go along with it and well lets just say its been crazy and I can only imagine what it will be like next year when there is a little one to throw in the mix.

Anyways enough about all that lets get back to why we are here...

sTUPID cOWS...

Yeah, we've got them.

Now we see this a lot...

You will get some crazy cow or calf that will shoot it's leg out the side of the shoot.

It's annoying, but they will usually get it back in without a problem.

This also will happen once or twice when we are working...

Some ol' pushy broad will get a little too excited about getting her yearly check up and will try to cut in line.

It usually doesn't work too well.

No one gets  hurt just the lady in front gets to lay down for a nap...

I'd join her if I could!

Now the next two sets are are ones that the title were really made for...

Yes this stupid girl some how managed to get herself caught like this...

We will get an occasional calf that will stick it's head through the fence but generally we don't get a dumb cow to do it...

and epically not one that's dumb enough to stick half her legs through it as well...

Luckily we were able to get her out and back up...

even if she is now headed the wrong way...

Oh well that's easily fixed!

And then there was this stupid guy...

Not Jeff, he's far from stupid...

I'm talking about that stupid calf.

I kinda feel sorry for her cause you know everyone is gonna be calling her fat cause she couldn't make it through and got stuck.

Options of how to get her out...

I think the first thing that came to mind was there's a tree so lets get the chainsaw...

ummm...

I think as soon as that idea came out it was realized how bad an idea that would be.

Crazy calf + loud chainsaw with a 16 in sharp blade = a lot of blood, a dead calf , and a seriously injured farmer....

hmmm...not a good idea

So...

Lets hook a chain to the tree and...

Ratchet it back away from the calf.

Much better idea.

*No cattle or farmers were injured in the taking of these pictures!

*Also that tree was removed before we worked any more cattle in that pen!

Well that's all I got one stupid cows for now, but I am off to work another group, so I am sure we will get a few today!

Lots of Love,

JP