Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Cow sex

Milking cows. In order to get milk out of them, they gotta have calves. DUH. So that’s why there are the young calves in the cow house. Kids of the current milking cows. Unni was giving me a lesson on cows today when we were having a conversation about the problematic cows talking through the cow house to the blind cows.

Well for those who are interested to know. Cows carry their calves for 9 months. They milk all the way till about some time before they give birth, so they can stop and rest for the big day. Then after they are milked for about 3 months before they get pregnant again.

Most of the 17 milking cows are pregnant now. With expected births next month. So there I was thinking that with that many cows, there must be crazy cow sex going on on the farm. I was still imagining how they had to bring the cows over to the bulls which are grazing at another area for the magic to happen. Till she mentioned about how the vet comes around… to inseminate the cows. And once again, it was another light-bulb-going-off moment. Right, cow IVFs.



So you can imagine that all the cows and bulls on the farm are virgins and will live the rest of their lives celibate. No wonder the other time when one of the bulls ran away, it ended up running towards the area where the cows were. (a passer-by came knocking on the door telling us that one of the cows was running loose on the road) In order to get the bull into the cow house, Inge and Filip brought all the cows in. As well as the bull. With their current sex life. No wonder the bull escaped and ran towards the cows searching for a lady friend. Goodness knows how it got past the electric fence!
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Unni’s pretty glad that I’m learning new things about cows everyday.



Oh yah and by the way, an update on my current rabbit situation.
Caught the black-white escapee on saturday. The one which was in cahoots with the goats to escape. Luck was on my side. Silly rabbit was inside the cow house and when I went to catch it. It ran for the door. Good thing the door was ajar and it ended up cornering itself. Whahaha, so I ended up being the heroine which put the runaway rabbit back to its cage.
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on sunday some c gin nas came by the animal pen, and apparently they didn’t put the stone back on top of one of the rabbit cages. The big white, which previously pulled a Shawshank-Redemption stunt on me by digging it’s way out of the cage. It’s huge like a pillow, but the damn thing moves pretty fast. It’s the elusive rabbit which I didn’t manage to catch, but Tor Alfred did. And so it ran away, making it the 5th time I’ve lost a rabbit. Unni was so mad she confronted the kids. As expected they just pointed fingers at each other. So now I gotta go catch it. Damn those c gin nas.

Unni’s now worried that if we don’t get it, pretty soon we’d have tones of little rabbit children running around, coz there are 2 other rabbits which are constantly running around and digging holes all over the place. (I used to think that they were wild rabbits, but find out today that they happen to be fugitives which escaped and were never caught). Ha, no rabbit IVFs here.

Aha. So there IS such a thing as rabbits which escape and never get caught… hmmmmmmm… maybe I should just grant it it’s wish to elope with the other fugitive rabbits and lead their lives in the wilderness.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hahah maybe you can call your cows virgin marys

2:17 AM  

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