I COULDNT BRING MYSELF TO GO TO THE CALF NURSERY THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS SINCE LITTLE GIRL LEFT US. AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT I WAS LAYING IN BED LISTENING TO A COW MAKE THIS LOW MOO SOUND. NOT A NORMAL SOUND, BUT A DISTRESSED, ALMOST AGITATED SOUND. I GOT UP, GOT DRESSED, THEN WENT OVER AND WOKE UP MY HUSBAND AND THEN I WALKED OUT OF THE HOUSE WITH MY FLASHLIGHT TO THE FRONT PASTURE WHERE THE PETS ARE. THE LIGHT SHOWED A SWEET SIGHT. A NEW LITTLE BABY. MAMA AND BABY WERE SURROUNDED BY THE OTHER COWS, CURIOUS TO SEE THE NEW BABY. ONLY THIS NEW MAMA (FIRST TIME HEIFER) WAS HAVING NONE OF IT. WHEN HUBBY CAME OUT WE DISTRACTED THE GROUP AND GAVE MAMA AND BABY AN OPPORTUNITY TO CALM DOWN. WE STAYED OUT THERE FOR A WHILE AND THEN I FINALLY WENT BACK TO BED. THIS MORNING EARLY I CHECKED ON THE NEW BABY AND MAMA. OH, SHE IS SUCH A GOOD MAMA, NOT LETTING THIS LITTLE ONE WALK TOO FAR AWAY, CALLING HER BACK REPEATEDLY. LITTLE GIRLS MAMA HAD HER AND ABANDONED HER. JUST LIKE HUMAN MOTHERS, SOME COWS ARE GREAT MOTHERS, OTHERS NOT SO MUCH. SOMETIMES IT IS A MATTER OF HORMONES RAGING AND THE COW SETTLES DOWN IN A DAY OR TWO. SOMETIMES LONGER. BUT THIS FIRST TIME HEIFER IS AN AMAZING MAMA. AS I WAS WALKING BACK FROM THE FRONT PASTURE, I WALKED PAST THE OUTDOOR CALF NURSERY AND FOR ONE BRIEF SECOND I THOUGHT I SAW HER. I THOUGHT I SAW LITTLE GIRL IN HER PEN. THEN THAT IMAGE WAS GONE. IT WAS JUST THAT I AM SO USED TO SEEING MY LITTLE GIRL THERE. WHICH IS WHY I COULDNT BRING MYSELF TO GO DOWN TO THE BARN AREA OR NURSERY. I COULDNT BEAR TO SEE THAT EMPTY PEN. I STILL CRY WHEN I THINK OF HER OR SEE ONE OF HER PHOTOS. I HAVE LOST CALVES BEFORE, BUT THIS.............THIS HAS HIT ME HARD. MAYBE BECAUSE SHE LIVED IN THE HOUSE FOR 4 MONTHS. BUT I AUTOMATICALLY MADE HER BOTTLES TWO TIMES SINCE SHE PASSED BEFORE I REALIZED I DIDNT NEED TO DO THAT ANY MORE. JUST WRITING THIS MAKES CRY BUT IS ALSO HELPING TO HEAL THE WOUND.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:36:19 +0000
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