I hate to admit it, but I’m thinking that fall is closer than I was realizing it to be. You can feel it in the air. I know that today was anything but a nice cool fall day, but the leaves are starting to turn and the crops are also. I guess it is September and in three months it’ll be December. Enough of that! As for the crops drying up, most of the reason is because lack of rain.
We had our hopes up this morning when it started to thunder, and then did start to rain. But it didn’t amount to much other than wetting the ground. So Daryl today cut hay. Usually when we have hay down, it more than likely will rain on it. You don’t really want it to get wet, but if it makes it rain… let’s go for it. Sometimes farmers are very superstitious. I could write a lot about this – but I’ll wait for another time. OK, before Daryl could get out in the field to cut the hay, he wanted to change the oil in the tractor. When that was done off he went. We weren’t going to cut this field this year because it was a first year seeding and without much rain, it wasn’t our best crop that we’ve ever seen. But Daryl decided that even though it’s probably not going to yield the best, it might get us by for the winter with small bales for the cows.
Speaking of cows, I went this morning to check on Tango and couldn’t find him! The ‘big’ cows were all in the shed, but no little calf. I thought… OK, don’t panic. So I started out in the pasture to see if I could find him. When I started walking, No Ears came out of the shed she was in and went to the machine shed. Now, there wouldn’t be any reason why this little calf would be in there, but I thought I’d humor her and look. Nope, no calf. She started to bellow for him. I thought for sure I’d find him now! But I started to make my way around the pasture and couldn’t find him. I thought did he get under the fence and get lost? I just couldn’t figure out where he was and I was starting to panic. But as I came around the corner of the shed, there he was with No Ears in the shed. I guess she was right after all. I went on the web earlier today to check some thing out, and the information below in blue is what I copied from an animal page. I guess they must have this secret bellow thing going on.
“Cows and calves make noises to communicate with each other and locate each other. A few days before a cow gives birth she will regularly make little grunting noises that are heard by her unborn calf. She will continue to regularly vocalize like this after the birth for a few days, while she keeps the calf alone with her and away from the herd and they form a strong bond. When they return to the herd she has a special bellow she will make to call the calf back to her side. Each calf recognizes the sound of its own mother.”