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Remember Wicked Wanda?
Wicked Wanda is one of the more
temperamental critters in our
milking herd (right, that’s 90
percent temper; 10 percent
mental). She gallops everywhere
but into her stall, is about the only
cow ever to kick at anyone and
really mean it, and boasts an
appropriately devilish-looking,
pointy, half-horn on one side of her
head.
After a tirade in this column a
few months ago about our chief
herd rascal, she proceeded to
make a complete fool of yours
truly’s ran tings by setting a new
herd per-day milk record. And she
has topped all contenders since
then.
While that may change her
personality not a whiff, it does tend
to make it a tad more tolerable.
That also makes more palatable
her tendency to toss out heifer
calves, bearing her unique ap
proach to life among the milking
string.
Following Wicked Wanda into
the herd, as you may recall, was
her first daughter, Weird Wendy.
Who is about 'to be renamed to
Whining Wendy.
Ever heard of a pouting cow?
Wendy pouts. She pouts because
she’s one of those Type A,
workaholic personalities which
experts warn are prone to heart
attacks, ulcers, high blood
pressure, strokes and similarly
related afflictions of life in the
competitive lane.
Now, Wendy gets to whining
most about once a year when
she’s turned dry for a stretch of
rest and relaxation before calving
and returning to the milking
string, like the classic Type A she
is, Wendy wants only to go back to
work. Badly. Or wants back with
her friends, or her routine. Or
maybe her feed. But she wants
back.
We turned her dry last week and
out into the heifer lot until she
could be trucked over the hill to the
dry cow lot.
Wendy bawled. Bellowed.
Screamed at the top of her lungs.
Opened her mouth wide, waggled
her big, long tongue with despair
and hollered in ear-splitting,
nerve-wracking, endless protest.
For hours. For days.
Screaming for admittance at the
back end of the bam while we
milked one night earned her
nothing but our complaints. Tired
of being ignored, she hopped the
fence, trotted 220 feet to the other
end and set up a noisy temper
tirade. Imagine. A bawling cow in
stereo.
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That finally got her admittance
to the barn. And prompt removal,
to her dismay and disgust, right
back out the other end. Where she
stood and pouted. And bawled.
A night or two later, the youngest
came clipping around the end of
the bunk feeder on his way down
from the feed room. In the dark.
Wendy waited until he’d rounded
the comer near her, and let loose
with a shrill solo. Fastest trip he
ever made back to the bam.
Last year, we dried Wendy off
and promptly relocated her to the
dry lot. An alert friend found her
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some hours later, trotting out the
road on the ridge above the farm,
headed West. Only fate kept
Wendy from further misadventure
on her search to get back to work.
We’ve about given up on
solutions for Whining Wendy.
Either this cow will eventually go
hoarse, or she may find her talents
donated for the service of her
country.
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