Do you ever have an afternoon all planned out...and things are going fine until...? Today was one of those days. Farmer S and Farmer K arrived at the farm to feed for the day. Feeding the first two herds went just like clockwork. Everything was smooth as butter. Then as the first bale of hay was being taken to the 3rd herd, Farmer K noticed a cow where it didn't belong...in the tree nursery. Farmer K and Farmer S went to investigate and sure enough there was Ginger where she didn't belong, and to boot she had a piece of barb wire stuck in her tail. A plan was quickly devised. You see, Ginger is smart enough to know that feed bags contain...you guessed it, feed. So Farmer S & Farmer K quickly enticed Ginger with an empty feed bag into the steer lot. From there, Ginger was enticed, along with the two steers, all the way to the barn with an empty feed bag. Ginger knows what happens in the barn and walked calmly down the alleyway into the squeeze shoot, where Farmer K cut the wire from her tail. She then followed the feed bag all the way back to the field where she belongs. And the two steers were their usual friendly, dog-like selves and followed Farmer S back to their own field.
Better behaving cattle couldn't have been asked for. That is if you don't consider that Ginger somehow managed to escape the field and get into the nursery to begin with. But who's concerned with details?
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