The lost calf posse.

Last week Rosebud, the heifer I rounded up with my jeep, misplaced her calf and mooed for hours. She had the idea her calf had gone through the fence and had wandered off with the herd. (We're keeping her in so she can get extra feed because she's so small). I walked her pasture twice looking for him and then had William take a look to confirm - no calf.

I let Rosebud out of her pasture to go find the herd and hopefully her little calf. Dandylyons and Foxsun joined us. Dandylyons plods along always keeping to the trail making her a great hiking companion. Foxsun kept stopping to snack on the spring grass then he'd canter pass us and graze ahead of us and let us catch up. When there's not much to eat he'll plod along next to his Mrs.



Here Foxsun gets ahead of us and Rosebud is way ahead very desperate to find her little calf.



We found the herd but Rosebuds calf wasn't with them. The cows came back with us.



I was getting kind of worried, but just before it got dark, the calf showed up. He'd gone through the fence and was asleep in the ditch I think. Here they are the next morning.




Also last week poor Dandylyons lost her horn. She must have been bashing her head into the sagebrush like she does and hit one of the many boulders out there. Her sister did the same thing years ago.



Bobby found the horn and didn't want to part with it.