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Post by willowgirl on Apr 24, 2016 4:07:56 GMT
Meet Snowy, our latest rescue ...  Brought her home today!  |
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Apr 24, 2016 4:41:35 GMT
She has a pretty face!  |
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Post by AD in WNC on Apr 24, 2016 12:25:17 GMT
willowgirl I understand how you rescue a dog or a cat, is it the same for a cow?
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Post by willowgirl on Apr 24, 2016 13:10:40 GMT
Well, I didn't get her from a shelter, lol. She was a dairy cow on the farm where I work. She didn't breed back, and her milked had dropped to less than 40 lbs., so she was going to be sold for slaughter. We bought her instead. |
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Apr 26, 2016 0:11:25 GMT
I'm getting a weird message about how my image is linked incorrectly, and can't see your Snowy cow.  |
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Post by countrymom22 on Apr 28, 2016 0:55:47 GMT
What a pretty girl! How many of these bovine rescues do you have now? This sounds like a dangerously expensive addiction! I'm almost afraid to ask, if hubby knew I was even reading this he would have a cow!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 1:32:43 GMT
Meet Snowy, our latest rescue ... Brought her home today! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! She has a cute face, a great personality, and can make her own clothes.
But how is she in the kitchen? I mean, hamburgers are good and cheese burgers are even better.
I will even bet that there is a really good steak or two in there! 
So, even though her milk has dropped does she continue to give milk. Is Numb making more cheese???
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Post by aoconnor on Apr 28, 2016 2:11:55 GMT
Oh she is so pretty!!! I think the world of you for what you do with "the girls" that are in danger. What a great thing for the ones yu help, as well as for you and Numb:-)
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Post by comfortablynumb on Apr 28, 2016 4:43:53 GMT
No.
No more milk.
4 gal a day is enough.
I told willow to plug and seal that darling before she left the dairy.
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Post by willowgirl on Apr 28, 2016 4:53:16 GMT
What a pretty girl! How many of these bovine rescues do you have now? This sounds like a dangerously expensive addiction! I'm almost afraid to ask, if hubby knew I was even reading this he would have a cow! We have five now. Four are rescues, and Lil is the half-Angus daughter of one of our Holsteins. Snowy was ... $1,000 worth of mercy.  But, well, I haven't missed all the money I've spent on the others, so what the heck! |
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Post by mzgarden on Apr 28, 2016 17:54:15 GMT
She's a pretty girl.
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Post by copperkid3 on Apr 29, 2016 13:30:58 GMT
Meet Snowy, our latest rescue ... Brought her home today! It's the EYES, isn't? After spending literally hundreds of dollars on various types of poultry to keep the local fox family in the manner they've grown accustomed to, I'm thinking that keeping cows might not be so bad.....except for the cost~ at least they're too big for most canine predators to drag over the fence! |
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Post by willowgirl on Apr 30, 2016 14:05:33 GMT
She is a pretty girl, quite tall but very lightly built, with long legs and delicate little teacup feet. If she were a horse, she'd be an Arabian, lol. |
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Post by kawaiitimes on May 2, 2016 9:05:26 GMT
Gorgeous, and I laughed when you said you didn't miss the money.
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Post by willowgirl on May 2, 2016 14:09:34 GMT
Well it's not like we're rolling in dough here, oh heck no, but OTOH, we haven't starved yet, so I guess it's all good. |
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Post by countrymom22 on May 4, 2016 1:21:49 GMT
Isn't it funny how we don't miss the money we spend for our animals, but the money I spend at the grocery store drives me crazy!
I guess we all have our priorities!
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Post by manygoatsnmore on May 7, 2016 23:01:41 GMT
What a pretty girl! How many of these bovine rescues do you have now? This sounds like a dangerously expensive addiction! I'm almost afraid to ask, if hubby knew I was even reading this he would have a cow! Well isn't that the whole point here, lol? |
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Post by manygoatsnmore on May 7, 2016 23:05:22 GMT
willowgirl, today, the pic showed up just fine...don't know why I couldn't see it before. She has beautiful eyes. That furrowed brow makes me smile. Makes her look like she is being forced to choose a Presidential candidate and doesn't like her options, lol.
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Post by willowgirl on May 8, 2016 1:08:36 GMT
LOL! She was pretty tense when that pic was taken ... it was about 15 mins after she had stepped off the trailer! She really has settled in wonderfully, though. I don't think I've ever had such an easy transition. She seems to be enjoying her new life of leisure, lol. Ha,,, funny,,,,tonight when I left the farm after doing chores, I texted Numb to say that everyone was clean and well-fed ... except me! I was filthy and starving! But I guess it's worth it, when I see how happy these girls are in retirement. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2016 20:44:46 GMT
Holstien are too tuff but I haven't ate Beef in years stick with Deer much better eating.
Rockpile
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Post by aoconnor on May 9, 2016 0:07:48 GMT
willowgirl, I just keep coming back to see that pretty girls eyes. Something about those sweet, slightly worried eyes...she is lovely:-)
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Post by willowgirl on May 9, 2016 12:27:16 GMT
Yeah, that pretty face got her a retirement home instead of being sent to slaughter! I'll have to take a new pic of her looking much more relaxed in her new surroundings. I call her "Miss Nosy Nose" because she still has to check everything out very carefully. She's a happy girl, though. |
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Post by aoconnor on May 9, 2016 21:13:36 GMT
I would love to see those new "face" pics:-) I bet she is so happy:-)
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Post by willowgirl on Jun 4, 2016 2:21:42 GMT
More than just a pretty face -- I got her final Individual Cow Record from the DHIA the other day. Over the course of two lactations, she made 61,653 pounds of milk, including 2,774 pounds of fat and 1,987 of protein!
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Post by farmchix on Jun 4, 2016 11:24:59 GMT
She IS way too pretty to be turned into hamburger....
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Post by Wendy on Jun 23, 2016 19:44:18 GMT
I love cows! She is a beauty!
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