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Friday, March 21, 2015
Sometimes things get a bit strange in the soap kitchen. Today, however, was the strangest so far. Here is what happened:
Since it was a pretty day, I (Kathy) was out on my back deck/porch talking on my phone, not really paying attention except to the conversation. A vulture flew over me, maybe 15 feet up. That was weird and got my attention. A minute or so later another one buzzed by. I watched it circle down towards the pasture below my house, then I noticed several of the cows running around and mooing their heads off!
What in the world?
I kind of kept my eye on the cow circus below, and within a few minutes wrapped up my conversation and really looked around the pasture. What caught my eye was a black (Angus) cow, right next to the fence who was mooing quite loudly and looking up the hill. Following her line of sight, I spotted a white face, a calf, about 25 feet up the (steep) hill at the base of a big tree! Calves are supposed to be in the pasture, with their mamas! You can bet the vultures knew it was in the wrong place. This called for action!!!
I went into the house and informed Alison that we were going to check on a calf that was out of the pasture and had vultures leering at it. I grabbed two golf clubs on the way out of the house & handed one to Alison. Why you ask? Because it's always good to have a golf club when approaching a calf (yep, I made that up, no clue why I picked the golf clubs up, but they did come in handy as our "walking sticks.")
Off we went, down the hill my house is on, then up the steep hill my neighbor's is on, and around the front to where the calf was. The following pictures show you what we saw as we approached the calf.
Another question you might ask, why did you take your phone and video the rescue? You never know! It pays to take your phone, and no one would have believed us if we hadn't had video proof!
One thing we both noticed upon viewing the video is that if we asked each other once, we asked 4 or 5 times, how did it get up the hill? I supposed we expected the calf to answer, or the mama cow, but they kept strangely quiet - at least as far as any explanation goes - and I guess we will never know how that new born calf climbed through the fence and half way up my neighbors hill! By the way, the neighbor is the one who owns the cows.
Please enjoy our calf rescuing mission, and sorry for the repetitive, how did it get up here?
Once we stopped filming I texted my neighbor about the calf. By the time Alison and I were almost back to my house my neighbor drove up and we explained what had happened. He said he had checked on the mama cow the night before as she was showing signs of calving. He was amazed at where the calf wound up and was grateful Alison and I had "escorted" the calf back to the mama cow, especially with vultures in the vicinity .
Making soap is what we do most of the time, occasionally we rescue new born calves!
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