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It was our lucky day. No, make
that, it was our Lucky’s day.
Lucky is a cow. On a recent
morning, early on what evolved
into one of the hottest, stickiest,
most humid days of the season,
Lucky gave birth to a bouncing
baby girl calf. This was a decided
ly ordinary and routine blessed
event.
Which is unusual because
Lucky is not necessarily a “roun
tine” cow.
Lucky, on occasion, displays an
attitude problem. Plus, she’s not
the smartest animal in the herd.
Early on in her first milking lac
tation, Lucky would occasionally
dance and prance when her udder
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was washed or the milk attached.
Again, this is fairly ordinary,
especially with first-time heifers.
Then one day, unbeknownst to
any of us. Lucky scratched or
bruised one of her teats. And, dur
ing afternoon milking, when our
student/employee Scott attached
the milker, she “nailed” him in the
face with a swift back foot, leav
ing him with a bloodied nose and
slightly crooked glasses.
It was his unlucky day, one he’s
never forgotten. Lucky day for me
though; most evenings, 1 would
have been milking that side of the
bam.
And while the teat soon healed,
apparently the memory didn’t. On
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occasion, for seemingly no reason,
the milkers would fly from Lucky.
We all learned to exercise a little
extra caution with her
unpredictability.
So we collectively groaned a
little wjien Lucky calved, wonder
ing if her temperament had mel
lowed. (We should be so lucky).
But, when The Farmer tried to
move her and her calf that morn
ing, she promptly managed to
elude him (and nearly flatten him
in the process), fleeing with a
group of heifers into a more dis
tant pasture and abandoning her
calf in the process.
By evening Lucky showed no
sign of a voluntary return. Via
three-wheeler, she was herded
toward the bam, so her calf would
have time to nurse before we
turned her back into the milking
herd. Lucky let the calf nurse, then
promptly high-tailed it back to the
lower lot, baby by her side.
The second time Lucky was
herded to the bam, jumped right
into a stall, and uneventfully let
The Farmer milk her - lucky for
him.
A half-hour later, as I fed
calves, Solomon’s barking
announced a heifer breakout.
Heifers were parading out the end
of the dairy bam, where heifers
aren’t supposed to be at all. Heif-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 11, 1992-B5
ers in the center alley, heifers in
the feed alleys, heifers with their
muzzles buried in the feed carts.
And no one around to help me.
It took several trips back, forth
and around the bam to corral the
bunch of four-legged busybodies.
I’d chase several out of one alley
way and out the door, run back to
chase another batch out another
alleyway, and by the time I got
back the originals were back in
again. When I thought I’d rounded
them all up, three more appeared
at the feed cart
Turned out that after Lucky had
been put in the bam, the gate to the
bam hadn’t been closed because
all heifers were believed to be
around the feed bunk. This batch
of stragglers lingering in the mea
dow smelled that open gate. At
least it seems they possess that
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ability.
Eventually, I corraled them out
side - lucky for me.
Back at calf feeding, and to my
amazement, a squirrel zipped past
down the shoulder of the road.
Squirrels are a rare commodity
around the farmstead, due to the
headhunter cats who patrol the
place. This was one brave (or not
too bright) squirrel - probably the
same one earlier seen surveying
the shop area from the vantage
point of a tractor seat
Moments later, to another
round of frantic barking, a gray
blur with a bushy tail zipped past
in the opposite direction, dog hot
on its heels.
A fruitless pursuit - lucky for
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