84-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 29, 1995
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards) i
Joyce Bupp
We’ve had to face up to the fact
that a long-time resident of the
farm is gone for good.
Sadly, it’s almost a year since
we last saw her.
Not our mother goose; we keep
an eye on her every day. She’s
been nesting on the mid-pond
“island” for a couple of weeks,
while the gander guards from the
bank of the pond. If a passing flock
of geese lands even several
hundred yards away in one of the
fields, he goes into aerial attack
mode. Apparently he knows we’re
no threat because he tolerates us.
Within the next several days, we
should have the answer we anxi
ously await every year about this
time. It’s a sort of contest to see
who can take the first head count of
fuzzy little blessed events as they
waddle out of the nest to form a
mini-flotilla, bobbing along in the
water behind their regal parents.
And we’re not missing Tiger,
the mother cat, though the where
abouts of her kittens remains a
mystery. Tiger has seriously
trimmed down her former butter
ball shape and spends her days
tending to her litter of goodness
knows how many babies.
She shows up at the calf nursery
right on feeding schedule morning
and evenings, along with the flock
of relatively useless, male bam
cats. (Relatively useless because
they prefer handouts of milk and
catfood to catching mice and rats;
bam cats are expected to at least
partially work for their living
around here.)
Since Tiger hunts faithfully to
help feed her hidden family, she
gets special treatment. While the
lazy crew of furry feline fellows
shares their allotment of milk in
the upper part of the bam, I sneak
her into the alleyway of the lower
level heifer pens for her own pri
vate dinners.
Unseen but only temporarily
—are the two or three broody hens
in our little flock of chickens. The
hens have apparently gone to nest
ing in those obscure sometimes
senseless spots they insist on
using for egg laying. Too often
they will pick a site near a hay drop
in the bam floor. When the chicks
hatch and begin scratching around
for food, at least one will promptly
tumble through to the heifer pens
below.
Then one of us has to track down
and corral the source of the terri
fied peeping sounds, return it up to
the protective mother hen upstairs
and take a chance on being feather
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flogged in the face for our trouble.
Meanwhile, die roosters gad
about the farm in groups of twos
and threes, crowing, squabbling
and generally making a racket any
time anything disturbs them. Per
sonally, I consider that noisy
bunch to be the Chicken Salad
flock. And one of these days...
Even our two remaining guineas
still hang around, as useless a pair
of birds as you could ever find
save for the general entertainment
their shenanigans provide. They
went to a new pasture with the
cows a few days ago, flying and
running along with the hod as the
girls danced and kicked their
hooves in the air over the fresh
grass.
Actually, the only one of our
usual cast of farm critters not
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her with the mower, we haven’t
seen her since then. Whenever I
walk to the pond, I still look for her
thick, scaly coils draped over the
warm stones of the springhouse’s
south wall.
Last weekend, we discovered a
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Looks like the old girl left a
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