The only bunch of cattle I bring home and watch close to calve is the first calf, two-year old heifers. Today was the day that we trailed them home. We got a light skiff of snow on the ground and it was windy and cloudy and cool but it worked out really well and we got them home.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/running02032006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/running02032006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Bringing the heifers home to calve and they seemed to get excited here and were in a real hurry. Don't know why, they've never been home so they don't know food is there.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/slowdown02032006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/slowdown02032006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The heifers really got spread out after their little trot so I had to get up towards the front to slow the lead down. I normally don't have this problem. I don't know what got into them.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/home02032006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/home02032006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun finally came out a little and we are almost home. Less than a mile to go.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/homenow02032006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/homenow02032006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Finally Home! Look at that hay there is to eat.</center><br />n<br />nThey seem to be a really calm cool and collected bunch of heifers this year. I can walk around through them and they don't get very excited. For my cattle that is really good because they almost never see a human walking around them and a lot of times it really spooks them. These seem to be taking in stride though. I have been making some efforts to gentle the cows down through my breeding and I think it's beginning to work. Every year is a little different and maybe this bunch will be sweethearts. I can hope.<br />n<br />n<b>Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche</b>