"Guess who's going to the vet today? Do-daah, Do-daah!"
Round-up:
This meadow lady, at the encouragement of every farmer we've met (for reasons of safety), will be losing her horns. Then everyone can play nice around the water trough.
Everyone seemed a little nervous, all huddled around.
Even the donks came sidling up to see what was going on.
After loading the three girls, Meat Loaf became visibly irritable, pacing up and down beside the trailer. He started moo-ing (the first we'd ever heard) and was clearly unhappy that his girls were being taken away.
The 20 minute journey to the livestock vet went smoothly. We pulled around the back and let the professionals take over.
And just when the vet thought he was going to have a quiet afternoon, Thousand-and-one-questions arrived.
The girls received their shots and the two Hereford's were dehorned. I say that like it was nothing. Truth be told, it was an ear-curling, nasal-assaulting, visually traumatic event that both the hubby and I would like never to repeat.
Now the boys, on the other hand, watched with morbid fascination as the vet used his full body weight to manually clip the horns off and were transfixed by the pouring of bright red blood.
UGH!
Anyway, we survived to tell the tale and headed straight to Dairy Queen,… as any good Texan would.
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| Bovine Beatrice |
Round-up:
This meadow lady, at the encouragement of every farmer we've met (for reasons of safety), will be losing her horns. Then everyone can play nice around the water trough.
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| Maggie |
Everyone seemed a little nervous, all huddled around.
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| Sammy, Maggie, Meat Loaf & Beatrice |
Even the donks came sidling up to see what was going on.
After loading the three girls, Meat Loaf became visibly irritable, pacing up and down beside the trailer. He started moo-ing (the first we'd ever heard) and was clearly unhappy that his girls were being taken away.
The 20 minute journey to the livestock vet went smoothly. We pulled around the back and let the professionals take over.
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| There are my girls! |
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| "But I thought you said we were going to the park" |
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| I guess they don't call it a SQUEEZE chute for nothing |
And just when the vet thought he was going to have a quiet afternoon, Thousand-and-one-questions arrived.
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| Peanut Gallery (Do you see what happens when you let your kids dress themselves?) |
The girls received their shots and the two Hereford's were dehorned. I say that like it was nothing. Truth be told, it was an ear-curling, nasal-assaulting, visually traumatic event that both the hubby and I would like never to repeat.
Now the boys, on the other hand, watched with morbid fascination as the vet used his full body weight to manually clip the horns off and were transfixed by the pouring of bright red blood.
UGH!
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| "Look Mom, no horns!" |
Anyway, we survived to tell the tale and headed straight to Dairy Queen,… as any good Texan would.
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