My three most devestating dairy farm experiences:
#3-(this is a new, recent story so let me explain) I was walking behind a cow to get her up to get milked. Her swich (hairy part at the end of her tail) had gotten wet and then she swiched it. When she did so it wrapped itself around the free stall bars essentially tying it into a knot. I tried to undo it as she lunged forward. Her tail was stuck! Then there was a pop and the swich was still there and the cow wasn't!
#2-Cow #700 breaking her leg in front of me. (this is mentioned in an earlier entry.)
#1-(this story may or may not of been told. If it wasn't, it was because its gross. Here it is.) I was getting cows up to milk and found something that looked like a placenta. But we didn't have any fresh cows in this lot so it couldn't be a placenta from one of them. (Cows have a nasty habit of hanging onto placentas until they rot half in and half out of them.) It was indeed a placenta with two twin aborted Holstein fetuses in it. I went to move them figuring that someone might want to look at them. I went to grab a leg of one of the fetuses (I was wearing gloves.) when it came off in my hand!
Wednesday night, a storm went through St. Louis and south of there. As of noon today, my parents and grandparents still didn't have electricity. Its only in pockets of no power so it will be like 3-5 days before they have it.
Only four more shifts at each the dairy and Hy-Vee! I am totally going to miss the dairy. I love my cows.
[EDIT-Orginally published to Blogger on 7/30/11]
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