This was just the tip of the iceberg. Echo's corrals haven't been cleaned out since last year and he's been piling up a mountain of poop in the corner of both corrals. Brad brought in the big guns to do a clean up. The equipment was too big to get into the other corral so he took some boards and a post down. To my surprise, Echo left his pile of hay and walked through the gap into the other corral. I put him in a small pen so he wouldn't step on the boards with nails in them.
Brad had to open the green gate into the pasture so he could drag Mount Poop out. Despite all the heavy equipment action, Wildairo ran in dodging around the tractor. I locked him up next to Echo.
It didn't take Wildairo long to realize he was missing his comfort cow.
Wildairo started whinnying in his ridiculous little filly whinny and of course Dandylyons ran the gauntlet to obey him, only stopping for a mouth full of Echo's abandoned hay pile.
The gangs all here.
Sparkle pulls on my coat through the fence. She wants to be a comfort cow as well.
The whole time Bobby has got herself trapped between the boards and some irrigation pipe. She gets herself into these pickles on a regular basis, almost daily, and has to be 'rescued'.
Suddenly it occurred to Dandylyons that the young thug who's been bossing her around is in jail.
We go off and have ourselves a good time with various hair brushes. Dandylyons had dirt embedded thick on her back where she's been pawing up dirt with her front hooves all winter. She loves a good brushing in the Spring. She hasn't had a calf since 1996 and won't ever again. She is a terrible mother and besides she fights with the bulls when they try something. Dandylyons is a good sized cow and the bulls we get every year are very young and she can easily beat them up. Dandylyons is not a normal cow and it's my fault for over-bonding with her as a baby.
Meanwhile the boys in pens have a bit of jailhouse fun. You can see Wildairo is almost a hand taller than Echo. They are standing on level ground.
Wildairo couldn't believe Echo was still wearing his halter, he'd pulled his off months ago so he grabbed on to Echo's halter and tried to pull it off.
2 comments:
Comfort cow. LOL
I think I need a comfort mini donkey. I'm still in love with the ones I saw the other day.
So over bonding with a cow makes them lousy moms? Isn't that ironic?
Wildairo looks just like my Chico! They are both from Beaty's Butte, right? Chico does not have a girly whinny though. He almost sounds like a mule when he whinnies - it's very hoarse. Seriously though, they look so much alike - especially in the face. I have to get some new pictures of Chico up.
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