DB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, luiy 11,1981
Dairy photo album
Mothering instinct goes deep
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER Just how strong
is the mothering instinct of a dairy
cow?
Pretty strong, if a few of the
photos received in the recent Dairy
Month Photo Contest are any in
dication.
A pretty typical illustration of
this instinct is a big black and
white mother standing over a
small calf still wet from birth
struggling to get up on spindly,
wobbly legs.
Such a scene is shown in the
accompanying - photo sent in by
Annette R. Miller, of Rl, Gap. The
mother has a protective look In her
eye as she warily scrutinies the
person behind the camera. The
calf has all it can do to just con
centrate on stay ing up and perhaps
taking its first steps. -
On Labor Day, the' calf will
celebrate its first birthday, ac
cording to Mrs. Miller, and as
shown in the photo she’s not quite
an hour old.
But dairy cows, like farm kids
always bringing home stray
puppies, kittens or bunnies, are
juick to adapt to adopting foun
dlings of all kinds.
Just ask Donna Hinkle, of Rl,
Weatherly, Pa. She sent in the
photo, which was taken by her
husband, Morris, of their Brown
Swiss cow, who adopted a fawn.
“Our cow, a Brown Swiss named
Luckey, mothered the brazen fawn
whenever Sudan felt hungry and
needed a four-footed mother,”
Mrs. Hinkle said.
As Luckey eyes the camera and
the fawn unconcernedly continues
with her snack, Mrs. Hinkle
believes that the Brown Swiss
might be saying:
“Just look what I’ve got.”
And what about the photo sent in
by Mrs. Fem Messick, of R 2,
Elizabethtown.
While everyone has heard about
milk-fed veal,*she shows there can
be milk-fed pork, too.
“This cow lost her calf at birth,”
she explains.
“One of the pigs got a taste of the
milk on the floor and this was the
start of the two adoptees nursing
twice a day.
“If the pigs didn’t go to her, she
would start bawling for them and
they’d run out to her very quickly.
“We had the two pigs butchered
and it was the meatiest pork we’ve
ever eaten.”
We’d be remiss if we didn’t point
that we’re not suggesting the start
of a new variation in swine raising
through the unusual photo. Also, it
was taken some time ago before
the pseudorabies outbreak and the
concern over keeping swine and
cattle separate.
Finally, we wish we could have
shown the photo sent in by Mabel
Krise, of Kl, Brockway, Pa. But it
was just too dark to reproduce.
The photo shows a heavily-laden
cow, whose udder was so big that
milkers couldn’t be attached.
So, she was given tour calves to
mother at the same time. The
uddei was so low that the two
calves assigned to the back teals
had to lie down in 01 der to nurse.
“At lirst, 1 nad to lay the calve.-
down,” Mrs. Knse said.
"But in about a -week they
learned to kneel down. 1 raised the
four calves as vealers and then
sold the cow.”
Lancaster Farming., wishes to
thank each of these contributors
lor sharing their unusual photos
with us.
Likewise, thank you to the
hundreds ot readers who par
ticipated in the contest.
These and other photos we’ll
publish trom tune to tune help
illustrate that it's never dull on a
dairy farm.
In tact, when the unusual or
unique occurs, a dairy tarm ap
pears to be a good place tor it to
happen.
these •mothering instinct”
photos help illustrate this behet.
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