[amc] Fwd: [Dexter Cattle] Wow! What a night!
- From: Micheal McEvoy <liveoakmennonite@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: AMC List <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
On a lighter note, here's how my Sunday ended, as
related by Catherina to teh Dexter Breeder's email
list:
--- Catherina <stbrigidsgatefarm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To: dextercattle2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: "Catherina" <stbrigidsgatefarm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:24:40 -0000
> Subject: [Dexter Cattle] Wow! What a night!
>
> "The Further Adventures of Chewy, the Mennonite
> Cowboy"
>
>
> Our beautiful dexters arrived yesterday at noon.
> Thank you, Wayne and
> Shirley!! I hope you're where you can read this!
>
> You won't believe what happened tonight.
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> Mike went out to do the feeding, got everyone but
> the dexters fed, and came back to the house to ask
> if I knew where J-Jay (the bull) and the cows were.
> Yep, I knew. They were at the other side of the
> pasture, by the new fence line.
>
> So Mike took his bucket of range cubes and headed
> over to feed them. Suddenly, I hear him coming back
> through the house. He tells me that J-Jay has
gotten
> on the other side of the fence and is trying to tear
> it down to get back in.
>
> What the hay??? J-Jay doesn't have a history of
> doing anything like that.
>
> So we go out to figure out how to get him back where
> he's supposed to be. I told Mike, "Why don't you
> just take the range cubes and go down to the gate,
> call him down there, and let him back in. Then we
> can figure out where the hole is in the fence."
>
> Mike starts walking toward the gate, and I turn
> around to tell Two Shous that *Mike* has the range
> cubes, not me, and she should be following him.
Then
> I look over where the bull is on the other side
> of the fence.
>
> "That's funny," I thought. "I thought J-Jay has
> horns."
>
> I start counting heads. Then I realize something.
>
> That bull is taller than our cattle.
>
> Quite a bit taller.
>
> 'Bout TWICE as tall as J-Jay.
>
> That's not J-Jay trying to get through the fence.
> That's a polled Black Angus.
>
> Uht-oh.
>
> I hollered at Mike that that wasn't J-Jay on the
> other side of the fence. Mike hollered at me to get
> in the truck and go up the road to find the owner of
> the bull.
>
> I ran to the house, got the keys, and headed for the
> truck. I noticed Mike heading toward the barn as I
> pulled out the drive.
>
> I drove up the to the house where we *thought* the
> bull's owner lived.
> No dice. It's a rent house. They don't own any
> cattle.
>
> So I drive across the road to see if those folks
> know who owns the bull. Noone home. DANG!!
>
> I drive back toward the house and into the next
> drive across the road from us. Noone home there,
> either. Dad-blame!!
>
> So I go past our house and to the neighbor down the
> hill from us. I pull in next to their trucks, run
up
> to the door, and am greeted by a tiny little
> chihuahua puppy jumping all over my foot, wanting
> attention. I know someone's got to be home 'cause
> they're not going to leave that adorable little
scamp
> out all on his own.
>
> I knock. Noone answers.
>
> I knock again. Still no answer.
>
> I try the door. Thank goodness it's the country and
> folks don't lock their doors when they're inside.
>
> "Hello???"
>
> No answer, but I thought I heard someone back in the
> back recesses of the house.
>
> I call out again. The lady of the house comes
> around the corner, holding their baby in a towel.
> Her husband came up behind her.
> They'd been back in the bathroom, giving the baby a
> bath.
>
> I asked them if they knew who has a Black Angus
> bull, polled. Yep, they know. He tells me he'll
> meet me back at the house, he'll call the bull's
> owner.
>
> When I get back to the house, I see Mike out in the
> pasture, up on Jake, his 24yo sorrel gelding. Man,
> that horse loves to work! He was doing a pretty
good > job of keeping J-Jay and the cows closer to the
> barn, away from the fence where that Angus was
> pacing.
>
> Then the Angus decided to come over the fence.
>
> Oh, what a sight!! Mike and Jake working to keep
> that Angus away from the cows. J-Jay working to
keep > between that Angus and the cows.
> Mike and Jake working to keep J-Jay and that big ol'
> Angus seperated.
>
> And then J-Jay and that Angus went head-to-head.
> That big ol' Angus and little J-Jay.
>
> Now, J-Jay is a great lookin' bull. But he's a
> Dexter, for goodness sake. That other one is an
> Angus, twice J-Jay's size!
>
> J-Jay held his ground. He wasn't going to give at
> all. Mike and Jake got in there, Mike hollering at
> J-Jay to get out of there. He finally got the Angus
> distracted enough for J-Jay to head back over with
> the cows, but the Angus got Two Shous' scent again
> and started after her, with her little one between
> the two of them.
>
> I was afraid that baby was going to get run over by
> that big ol' brute. But he moves pretty well for a
> 6wk old.
>
> Mike hollered for me to go let the fillies out of
> the corral. I ran over, let Opal out and hollered
> for her to go help Jake. She came out of the corral
> and just stood there in the barnyard.
>
> I ran into the corral and opened the stall gate to
> let Arwyn out. I hollered at her to go help Jake.
> She headed out of the corral, saw Opal there and
> stopped.
>
> "Go help Jake!" I hollered again. Off they went.
>
> Those little fillies headed out to where Mike and
> Jake were trying to keep the bulls seperated.
> Arwyn's the smallest of the two, but man! is she
> going to make a good cuttin' horse! She loves
> getting in there and cutting out the cattle.
>
> Trouble is, the Angus cut Two Shous out from the
> rest of the cows. Two Shous, with her baby right
> behind her, headed for the barn. The Angus followed
> along behind, Mike and Jake behind the Angus, and
> J-Jay coming up fast behind.
>
> At the gate to the barnyard, Two Shous suddenly cut
> left. Mike saw the opening and took Jake between
her
> and the Angus. The Angus went on into the barnyard,
> and Two Shous took her baby off the other direction,
> with J-Jay cutting between her and Mike, heading her
> back out to pasture.
>
> Mike and Jake worked the Angus into the corral,
> which I'd left wide open when I'd let the fillies
> out. Man, was that bull mad!
>
> J-Jay wasn't too happy, either. He kept the cows on
> the other side of the pasture and kept bellerin' at
> that other bull.
>
> By the time the owner got there with a trailer, the
> bull'd knocked down the gate between the corral and
> the stall. Oh, well, it was an old wooden gate that
> we were planning to replace, anyhow.
>
> J-Jay and the cows are happy now that the Angus is
> gone. The baby is OK. The goats and lamb have
> calmed down. Xena, our Mastiff-Rott-Chow mix, has
> forgiven us for not letting her out of the house and
> into the fray. Jake and the fillies are going to be
> getting plenty of treats the next couple of days.
>
> And one good thing came of all this.
>
> The pullets who'd kept wanting to roost in the stall
> instead of the henhouse, forcing us to have to carry
> them into the henhouse every night...
>
> Well, they decided that tonight was a good time to
> put themselves to bed in the henhouse... away from
> that big ol' bull.
=====
Micheal McEvoy St. Brigid's Gate Farm
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