In a past post I spoke about our how we combine our cows every now and then with our neighbors cows. Well, it is our neighbor who bought the… BULL… and they have shared him with us.
I like to name every critter that comes along our path so I started calling him Ferdinand. He seems very gentle…yet I know…that you still have to be extremely cautious with any animal, especially a bull.
I give him his space, but I have been able to enjoy catching a few good pictures of him. I watched a clip of an old Ferdinand the bull cartoon made by Disney on you tube. It was cute. And yes, I think that our Ferdinand is similar….although he doesn’t go so far as smell the flowers. He is very “Masculine” and he loves his wives.
Isn’t that the sweetest face ever! Now I think he truly looks like he should be called Ferdinand.
This is a precious picture. The cow he is flirting with is Clementine. Clementine had it rough before we got her. We purchased her from my brother, but there was a time she was with another family and she experienced some trauma. When my brother got her back she was very withdrawn. They loved her and she got better. When we brought her to our pasture she was expecting and before long she gave us our first calf. Ironically it was born on my brother and sister in laws anniversary. I thought that was cool. She settled into our pasture very nicely, it was as if she got a new chance at life. She actually acts as if she owns the place. Well, that is until Ferdinand comes along. Then she acts all shy and sheepish.
This picture was taken only a few minutes after we combined our cows after they had been separated for a few months. She was VERY glad to see him. He was Very glad to see her too. I sat and watched how they re-aquainted themselves with one another. It was down right cute.
Look how sweet. This is one of our neighbors cows. She was blessed with twins over the summer. This is not the clearest picture, but one of the few that I was able to get of all three of them. Ferdinand ended up giving us two sets of twins this summer. We actually had twins when Chuck was born. However, our twin didn’t survive. Both sets were boys. All of them have good dispositions, which I am so thankful for. One of our friends said he has been around cows his whole life and has never had a set of twins.
All our girls hopefully will deliver this spring or early summer. I cannot wait!
Meanwhile we are enjoying the ones we have, including sweet Ferdinand.
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