We visited
2 farms: a “regular” milk farm and an organic milk farm. We found our little
brown pearl at the organic farm. The owner told us there were 4-5 cows ready to
go. She left us to go get something in the house and came back with a list of
the cow that was ready to go. She gave us the name of each and every one of
them. Faith (her name) was the one we chose!
Faith moved
with us about a week after our visit at the farm. She was very quiet on her way
home and already very friendly with us, the birds, the dogs and Justin. We
halter broke her as soon as she was here, gave her bath, brushed her every day
so that she could get use to us as much as possible. We didn’t want to have a
dangerous and mean cow around us. She was so friendly that when she escaped
(more than once) she was always ending up at our neighbour’s place, more specifically
in their garden (!!!) and they would walk her back in the field without any
problem (other than eating their salad!!!).
So, in
2015, Faith was over a year old and it was time for her to meet a man! We
contacted someone who had a little Dexter bull and the gentlemen move in with
us (with Faith) from spring 2015 to fall 2015. He was a very good and gentle
tenant except for a few fences he broke when tried to reach grass on the other side.
Not being
there with them 24/7, we don’t know if love did his magic but we noticed that Faith
was not in heat anymore! And mostly, she wasn’t trying to escape each month to
go meet a man!!! I think she looks bigger than she was in the spring, her belly
is much rounder on the side and Tim said that he doesn’t know if it was a bowel movement or not but he
felt something moving in his belly . Fingers crossed she’s going to give us a
beautiful baby in March-April 2016!
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