Cattle
Life with cattle
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Cooper’s Beginnings
The saying is “A dog is a man’s best friend”. Cooper is truly my Farmer’s best friend. We have had many dogs here on the farm over the years, and my Farmer has been attached to every single one of them. Well, maybe not so much Arf. Arf was mine and the kids’ dog. She started killing our chickens and ended up on my Farmer’s bad list very quickly. I did write a story about Arf. It’s actually one of my favorite blogs. You can read it here. Back to Cooper. I can honestly say that my Farmer and Cooper have the strongest bond over any other dog we have…
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Why oh Why do we farm??
REPOST!! Original post date…. April 30, 2017. The question, Why do we farm?, was asked the other day. (It may have been me asking, it may have been my Farmer asking. Can’t really remember 😉 ) I remembered that I had written a blog post about this exact question years ago, so I decided to find it. It took a bit of digging, but I found it. After reading it, I decided I liked what I had written, so instead of writing a whole new post, I am reposting this old post. I wrote it 4 years ago. Wow, how time flies when you are having fun Livin’ the Life,…
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‘Twas the Week before Christmas on the Farm
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the farm,all the critters were stirrin’, even the cats in the barn.The work gloves were hung by the chimney with carein hopes of them dryin’ by the warm fire’s air.The cattle were nestled, all snug in straw beds,mooing so softly, as their Farmer counted heads.“Christmas is comin’,” they heard their Farmer say,“Best do some shoppin’ or I’ll be sleepin’ in the hay.I’m headin’ to town to buy my Missus a gift,You all best be good and I’ll be back in a jiff.” “Christmas is coming!” the cows said with a moo.As they chewed on their cud they thought, we’ll prepare too!“What’s Christmas?”…
