Nosey neighbor--pics

A friend of ours has been talking him up pretty big on this, we came home Sunday afternoon to a note on our door saying "be sure to feed it". Seems he had a two week old heifer calf that he`d been bottle feeding and decided to give it a new home. Kaleb ran down to the barn to see what this was all about, and before his mom could stop him, his Sunday clothes were full of cow s<>t.

Now our one mare can`t figure out what this critter is all about.. Our geldings have been around plenty of cattle and could care less, they`re having a high time at the hay feeder without the bossy old lady around.

The little feeder was his last nights project, figures he saved 8 dollars on a hanging pail. Told me "when you ain`t got much, every dollar counts" :)

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This will be something he will remember forever and hopefully have fun doing the work involved.

When I was about your son's age, my dad made a deal with a small local dairy to buy the newborn calves for $10.

There were ten calves that were my responsibility to feed every day with some type of "powdered" milk for calves.

I mixed the "milk" in 1 gallon aluminum army surplus buckets. Took the mixing spoon and "banged" it against the buckets and the calves would come running.

Put the buckets on the ground and the calves would drink from the buckets. When the bucket were nearly empty, the calves would kneel down on their front legs to try and get more milk.

After the buckets were empty, they will throw their heads back and "fling" the buckets into the air. Funniest thing I ever saw, in fact I'm laughing right now.

Those ten calves helped build our small herd that continued through the years until my father sold out about 5 years ago.

Nice pictures and thanks for the memories.

Jason

Glad to hear about a kid that has other interests than game boy or play station.