Yearling Heifer on the Lamb

Monday, May 17, 2021
Hello friends,
Rain, and more rain. I think we have been dodging the major portion of it, but we still got 1.3” this morning. I hear reports of much more than that, so I’m thankful. Looks like there is more rain in the forecast for the rest of the week too.
We had a yearling heifer on the lamb since last Thursday. Just all of a sudden disappeared. She has had a terrible habit of getting through the front pasture fencing and joining the big cows. Annoying, but not serious since we just put her back. This time, she wasn’t with the big cows, and there was no sign of her. She is just 14 months old and about old enough to breed, but the deed has not been done yet so she could have come into heat and gone looking for company. Actually, I wouldn’t have been overly upset about that. Would have saved me the trouble of AI-ing her. It was the not knowing if something happened to her. We called our neighbors to the west and farther west and down the street, then east, but couldn’t get a hold of the neighbors to the north who don’t actually live on that property. Well, low and behold, we finally got through to them this evening and Reagan is with their Angus herd. Stinker. Tomorrow we will have to get her and figure out what to do to keep her on our side of the fence! Anyone want to buy a Jersey heifer?….