On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Seems but a few years ago
when they were just tiny. You
coddled them, looked after them,
worried about them.
The went from infants to tod
dlers to young people to young
adults in a blur before your eyes.
We mark these phases as gradu
ations, from simple ceremonies
moving kindergartners up to
first grade, to the more elabo
rate, solemn, but joyous, depar
tures from high schools and col
leges.
While there are no official
ceremonies, it’s graduation sea
son for many of our farm young
sters, too.
Our summer crop of brand
new mother cows have begun
calving, graduating into their
working careers in the milking
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herd. The resulting, and unusu
al, string of heifer babies put a
half-dozen overgrown bottle
calves into abrupt “graduation”
to make room for the newcom
ers. And weaning several three
month calves simultaneously
meant enduring an ear-splitting
protest of bawling for the next
few feedings.
That passed, as the gradu
ates settled into group pens,
their bellies growing wider
every day as they chow down
sweet-smelling, soft, new-crop
grass hay. Meanwhile, their
empty pens have been filled
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ments, including one escape
artist that generated a couple of
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None, however, was more
spunky that the baby bull born
in the lower meadow and not
corralled into the nursery for
about 36 hours. He arrived in
the calf barn highly irritated at
the curtailment of his freedom
and took it out on the first per
son handy. While this pint-sized,
bawling, pawing bullfighter
never managed to knock me off
my feet, he did try, succeeding
only in knocking his own bottle
in a splattering mess across the
floor. By the next feeding, he
was hungry and gulped dinneF
down like a veteran. And, we
parted friends when he graduat
ed on to a new owner.
Our four young have
graduated into young cats, per
fecting their playful antics in
the upper level of the old bank
barn. After we filled one hay
mow and part of another with
some first-cutting grass, the
barn became a virtual feline
amusement park of fun activi
ty-layers of hay bales to scale,
nooks and crannies in which to
hide and protruding bale cor
ners at various levels from
which to launch pounce-attacks.
However, the racket and dis
turbance of offloading haywag
ons and stacking them in the
mow initially chased the cat
family into hiding. Several of the
kittens ultimately were found
tangled in a pile of round-bale
netting awaiting disposal. That
incident seemed to tame them,
almost as though their rescue
taught them to trust us. Now,
they come running when we
appear in the barn, begging for
milk and cat food, and affection
ately purr as lapcats.
Also rapidly approaching
graduation are three Canada
goslings (two of the original five
hatched disappeared) growing
up among the meadow ponds.
Their baby goosedown is rapidly
being replaced with sleek, hand
some feathers; soon the classic
white face patch will develop.
One has an especially spirit
ed and bossy personality.
For the first year ever, we
have a second group of geese
residing in the meadow, co-exist
ing with a family raising
goslings. Probable yearlings,
this “singles group” rarely
shares the same water spaces as
the family flock, however.
Father ganders are always very
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protective of the goslings, chas
ing off the other geese - dogs,
cats, people - that get too close,
and this one has fulfilled his role
well.
Lately, however, one upstart
youngster has snatched that
role away from Papa Goose
Watching a half-grown, still
fuzzy gosling stretch his neck,
spread his half-grown wings and
go flopping off in pursuit of a
half-dozen, full-grown adult
birds is hilarious Seems this
gifted-student has skipped a
couple of grades and is already
moving up into job training for a
future executive leadership posi
tion.
However, there will come a
day when the goslings will offi
cially graduate into their adult
lives, reminiscent of a ceremony
used at one time (maybe still) to
honor Brownies moving up into
the ranks of Girl Scouts
Appropriately called Fly Up.
Once again, the graduates
will leave home and our nest
will be empty again.
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