Giggles new adventure

For the calendar saying that it’s January, the weather today would seem more like late October. There was a little wind and the snow was melting. Fantastic! So these past couple of days Daryl and I have been talking about letting Giggles get out of the calf pen in the barn and venture out into the cow yard. Now this is a big step and we for sure don’t want him to get sick. But the forecast for the upcoming week is good weather, so we decided today is the day. First things first. Since Giggles is a boy, he needed to get made into a steer. After we caught him and banded him, the next thing to do was to see how not only he acts once he’s on the cow yard but also how the other cattle act with him there. Once the door was open, Sassy went out which kind of surprised me. Even though she wasn’t the best Mom (OK, she was terrible!) with Scarlet, she’s come around with Giggles and had done a great job. Now that she was outside, we were expecting Giggles to get pretty lonely in the barn and jump out. He wanted to be on the cautious side and was getting a lot of encouragement from the other cows.Well, almost all the cows. I’m not sure that Ed really thought it was such a great deal or not. But soon he made the big jump out of the doorway and then he found his freedom.

Ed wasn’t impressed

Off he took running like he was a crazy calf! He’d run to the one side of the yard and all the cows would follow and then he’s turn around and run to the other side of the yard with the cows all just a couple of feet behind him. He is really a strong calf and I’m thinking that he’s going to grow up pretty fast. He was already eating some hay when he was in the barn and every once in awhile he’d even eat some corn. He seemed a little bit too young to be doing that – but he’s pretty stubborn so I guess he’ll do what he wants.

When we were watching the cows to make sure everyone was playing nice I noticed the one cattle feeder. Or lack of it would maybe a better way to describe it. This is how it should look and this is how the second one looks. I guess Ed didn’t like having two on the cattle floor and took care of that his way.

And finally with all the commotion going on with the cows, also stirred up the dogs in the barn. They were also running around like they were crazy and the one thing that they really like to do is to see who is the ‘King of the hay pile’. Now normally Reno wins and kind of pushes Kaiser off. But as you can see in this picture, Kaiser is thinking if he barks loud enough he’s the winner.