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Wht a treat to throw open the
doors and welcome in the
daylight
Opening up the house doors to
let in springtime warmth and sun
shine has always seemed to me the
equivalent of turning the page to a
new chapter of time. Suddenly the
hairier between inside and outside
living is greatly diminished and
the porch beckons us to “come, sit
a spell.”
Equally welcome is the return
of wide-open bam doors. An over
head garage-type door at one end
and wide, sliding doors at the
other permit a frec-flow of air and
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unobstructed vision down the cen
ter alley of the dairy bam. Doors
flung wide allow us to enjoy the
outdoor freshness and better keep
ing taps on what’s happening on
the farmstead outside during milk
ing hours.
And, when you’re outside
working in the yard, the see-thru
effect of the open doors offers a
quicker tip-off if one of the four
legged girls is somewhere she
isn’t supposed to be.
Moving perennials from one
border to another a few days ago, I
glanced toward the open dairy
bom door and spotted a cow stand-
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ingjusl inside the entrance, calmly
munching haylage from one of the
boxslall feed troughs.
“Best, what ate you doing out
there?” I growled at the big. old
cow surveying the scenery while
she pilfered a herdmate’s chow.
Our dairy barn boxstall doors
are each fastgened with an “L”
shaped piece of half-inch steel rod
that slides through sections of pipe
welded to the gate and the stall
sides. A few of our mote clever
cows have learned to wrap their
tongues around the shorter, handle
part of the “L” and yank it from
the pipe closure. When the gate
swings open, the escapee will then
take a stroll around the dairy barn,
ultimately ending up at a feed cart
with her big black and white
muzzle buried deep in the grain.
Not only is this irritating to us
cow caretakers, it is dangerous to
the cow. Overeating of grain can
result in serious stomach disorders
and sometimes costly and
unhealthy side effects.
On the pen presently shared by
old cows Best and Marvina, the
“L” shaped closure has been
replaced by a large bolt, a deter
rent to these veterans of the
bovine-tongue-escape trick. How-
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ever, if the bolt is not pushed
tightly against the {ripe into which
it fits, these girls can still yank it
free.
As I headed toward the bam to
corral the chomping escapee, she
began strolling the other way,
headed for the long center alley
between the two rows of stalls. So,
I slipped in through the side door,
effectively cutting her “off at the
pass.” So tame is Best and so used
to going into her pen that she
promptly returned to it, even
though the main door a dozen feet
away was still wide open.
Then I realised that Marvina
was missing as well. A glance
down the feed alley in front of one
row of stalls confirmed my suspi
cion. Way down near the far end
of the bam, Marvina was sampling
each bale of alfalfa hay stacked
along the wall as she mosied past.
A sort of lay-tasting party, if you
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will. With bites of other hay in
between as a palate cleanser.
I trotted down the center alley,
whipped around the end of the row
of cows and headed toward Mar
vina. She glanced up. took one last
yank of alfalfa, turned tail and
began hyoofing it toward her pen.
Halfway there, she paused a
split second to grab a mouthful of
feed from the grain cart, hauntily
tossed her head in my direction,
then lifted her tail and left me
dodging manure souvenirs the rest
of the way to her pen.
Even more aggravating than a
clever cow is an arrogant, clever
cow.
“You’re something,” I
grubmled to her as she ambled
into her pen and stood there while
I patted her long, smooth neck.
The expression on her face
looked suspiciously like a smirk.
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