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A knocked-down gate is a sis make. They’ll usually manage
pretty dependable indication that to slip in with the cows and we’ll
something is wrong around here, retrieve them easily enough. Or,
Usually it indicates some four- on occasion, a bull calf will high
footed friend -of the bovine type - tail it toward the fields and lay
out running amuck. down to hide in a field of alfalfa or
Sure enough. The pen, where snuggle in along a grassy bank,
just a short time before I’d fed a “Look at this,” the Fanner corn
baby bull calf his breakfast bottle, mented about a half hour later,
was glaringly empty. glancing out the kitchen window
Another calf had skipped town, during a morning cookie break.
So to speak. Our runaway was trotting up
One escaped calf does not a cri- the field road from the meadow.
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where he had apparently been
cooling his heels on the sunny side
of the remains of a big bale stack.
Close behind was friend Frank,
who spied the escapee as he drove
up the road and headed him in the
homeward direction.
Even before the Farmer closed
in from the opposite direction, the
calf saw what he took to be a way
out of this two-to-one contest.
He took a flying leap in to the
upper pond.
This pond is not large, but it is
about ten feet deep. Watching
from the back porch, I saw a
black-and-white blur furiously
paddling through the open water
beyond the rim of cattail foliage.
One very wet - and no doubt
surprised - bull calf was returned
to dry off back home in his pen.
When I climbed the gate to feed
him that evening, he bawled, low
ered his head, and threatened to
ram me.
Apparently he didn’t appreciate
the swimming lesson.
Unpredictable animal behavior
is the predictable animal behavior
here - one more thing that makes
triing
farm living so enjoyable and
interesting.
Take the geese, for instance.
Matter of fact, we thought some
one had.
Early this month, “our” geese
hatched out six fluffy yellow
brown goslings from their mid
pond nesting site. When several
days passed and the goslings still
numbered six, we rejoiced in the
pair’s good fortune and lack of
predator devastation this go
round.
Then, the entire family disap
peared. No little geese. No big
geese.
After our initial dismay, ho
feathers, no scene of destrution,
no evidence of “fowl” play of any
kind seemed a bit reassuring.
Surely foxes or dogs or hawks or
owls couldn’t have wiped out
eight geese without some sort of
trace. When they got the guinea
hatch last spring, at least we found
feathers.
Perhaps the appearance of more
geese at the pond, encroached on
their turf despite Papa Goose’s
best defensive efforts, had scared
off our little family. Maybe they
had moved down into the brushy
areas along the meado<v creek for
more peace and quiet.
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Several search trips through
with the three-wheeler yielded no
sign.
But a suggestion that the geese
might have moved to the closest
neighboring pond was right on
target The fact that it’s probably a
half-mile away, either through the
meadow or the short-cut route via
the neighboring wooded housing
development made the walking
journey for those short-legged
little babies seem highly
improbable.
A week later, they returned to
our pond, hung around a couple of
days, and split again for the
neighbors.
Not long after sunrise a few
mornings later, they again came
trudging back up through the mea
dow. Soon after, five interloper
geese splashed down. Papa dis
patched them elsewhere in a
hurry.
Apparently this is home, but our
neighbor keeps his pond banks
beautifully mown and neat - mak
ing for easier walking and better
predator watch. I promptly looped
short our pond-area grass, which
we had left grow for the heifers to
nibble.
Next thing, these geese will
demand landscaping.
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