Our cows like to spend their time looking for ways to get out of the pasture they are in, always thinking there might be some green grass on the other side. This morning we put a cow back in, but she kept looking back across from where she came, and didn’t go to eat with the other cows. Different enough behavior to make us think something wasn’t right in cattle ranching land. Some cows want to be off by themselves to give birth, and go thru fences at that time also…so we went hunting for the calf. The mama cow, in the meantime, kept trying to lead us off elsewhere, as many animals will do in an attempt to protect their young. She would look everywhere with her eyes except where she left the calf. Ahh, but we people are smarter than cows [most of the time], and managed to find the calf and link her and mama cow back up. Just another day in the life!
