By Daniela Caride Publisher
For years, I’ve been toying with the idea of adopting chickens. They are cute and small, and they could even provide us some eggs.
But after watching this lovely movie, I’m ready to adopt a slightly bigger farm animal. Milkshake is the sweetest pet cow ever!
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I found this cool picture at a great blog post about cows, written by Colin Beavan (click on the pic to visit him).
Cows love my dog Jespah :
they are always very curious and friendly with him…Jespah eats grass like them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/francapicc/301528064...
Cows love my dog Jespah :
they are always very curious and friendly with him…Jespah eats grass like them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/francapicc/301528064...
I want to go jogging with Emma and a cow. What a hoot that would be!
:oj
Can we come along?
:-D
We had a little jersey we named Sassafrass who would come running just like this one and want to butt you and play the same way. We also hand raised a Brahma bull we named Bojangles – a mack truck sized bundle of love!
Our first attempt at "back to the earth" farming resulted in the purchase of a sweet piglet we named Tulip. We fenced an 80' x 100' area which was to be our garden. Mother Earth News suggested putting a pig in it and within a short time, your garden would be plowed. We gathered cow manure from the neighbors, put it in a huge pile in the center for spreading later and put Tulip in her temporary home/job. When we called her name, she would come running as fast as her little legs would carry her and dive head first into the pile of manure! Needless to say, we plowed our own garden. When she matured, we invited the neighboring farm's boar over for afternoon tea and soon Tulip was carrying her own piglets. The day that she gave birth, my husband sat in the pen with her head in his lap. As each one was born, he would move it out of harm's way until all 9 babies were born. I so wish I had photographed that sweet picture. Yep….farm animals love you the same way, as long as you love them back.
Christine, what a wonderful account of life at a farm! I would love to live in a place where I could have bigger animals. Since the City of Cambridge would sue me if I got a cow, I am sticking to Saint Bernards for now – almost there is size.
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