The little red calf bleated like a sheep as he wandered in the field among 20 cows and 11 calves, but no cow came running to mother him. The c…
With a dozen calves already born and one more due, I have a lot to be grateful for this year. All of the newborns are alive, and some even hav…
Have you ever wondered which is smarter: cows or horses? I think they're intelligence is about equal, but their behavior is different. Here's …
It's that particular time of year when each cow steps a bit smarter, and the bull gets a twinkle in his eye; it's breeding time at the farm. W…
There are no births on the farm yet; we expect 12 calves, but none have arrived, and the cows keep getting bigger and bigger. By this time in …
Last week I wrote about calling a steer a bull. I was told that was insider slang for oxen, but an email from Art Pease made me wonder. This w…
In a previous column, I wrote that farmers call steers "bulls." I got an email from Art Pease, a fellow farmer, who called me out on it. He sa…
Owning or borrowing a bull would seem to be a requirement to create calves. Blain, a Scottish Highlander bull, had bred all but five of my Hig…
It might seem that a calf born on the farm lives out his life there. That's true of 90 percent of the herd at Miles Smith Farm. But some cattl…