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“Amie’s out,” came the offhand
comment from our youngest as he
returned to the house early one
evening last week.
Amie is about 75 years old - by
human comparison. Actually this
favorite old matriarch cow is 13, a
distinguished age for a bovine,
though not near the impressive 20
that a few tare individuals reach.
More than just a cow, Amie is a
part of the family. Purchased into
our herd as a young milker, Amie
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came from a New York family
whose small son considered the big
white animal his own special four
legged partner.
Accustomed to his attentions
since calfhood, Amie has always
been exceptionally gentle and
tame. During the many physical
trials and tribulations she’s en
dured, I don’t know that she’s ever
even attempted to kick at anyone.
While the herd was still housed in
the old loose housing barn, Amie
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gentle temperaments imply did not
fit with the aggressiveness needed
by a herd member in that every
cow-for-herself kind of living.
But when the herd moved into
the tie stall bam, Amie won her
own box stall. Located at the very
end of the bam, she can keep an
eye on what’s happening around
the yard, as well as spotting the
feed cart as it starts its trips at he
distant other end of the feed alleys.
While her initial purchase was
intended to add genetically and
production valuable daughters to
the herd, Amie has been a flop in
the female offspring dewpartment.
She’s given us something like
seven bull calves - and no tellers.
If she’s even capable of producing
a heifer, she’s keeping it a guarded
secret.
Amie and our son have always
been especially close, perhaps a tie
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teiferhood. Before he hit that
growth spurt common to pre
teeners, it was not unusual to see
Amie strolling in from the pasture,
bearing one small, grinning boy
over ter ratter jagged, bony
backbone.
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That ended, I think, the day she
jogged under the pipeline and he
forgot to duck.
No one rushed away from the
Olympics TV coverage to chase
Amie back into her pen. We knew
full well where she’d be.
A large pile of silage had been
run for her boxstall neighbors, but
not yet fed. Amie rooted among the
stack for the tastiest kernels, then
plopped down in the middle of the
cushy bed to meditate and chew
her cud.
At late night feeding, she was
there, and surely felt that
being run back into ter own stall
was a great injustice.
A continuing problem breeder
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health problems she’s suffered
over the years, Anue has been
pronounced safe with calf again, a
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that we nearly lost her a couple of
years ago due to a severe toxic
buildup, and saved her only
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