The Bovine Bugle

A young heifer really gets into her food

Our oldest nephew, Jason, and his wife, Nikki, were just leaving the farm after Sunday dinner when they noticed an odd site. They backed their car up, and when we asked what was wrong they said one of the heifers was inside the stock tank we use to feed them hay. We all walked out to see this oddly funny sight.

The young heifer was indeed inside the tank. After debating how to get her out, Jason and I decided to try tipping the tank so that she could get her feet over to top edge and outside the tank. It worked like a charm. Must be she wanted to get every last bit of hay that was left in the bottom of the old stock tank. Jason commented that tilting the stock tank a bit was lot easier than helping Ben and me move into the house the new woodstove we had just purchased. The Hearthstone stove weighed just under 500 pounds, and gave the three of us all we could handle. This will make the 2nd woodstove we have in the house. We hope to cut our heating oil consumption by a lot. With the price of fuel oil well over two dollars a gallon, we should almost pay for the woodstove in one heating season. Of course, it means Ben will have more wood to split, and Justin will have more wood to stack.

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Posted by Blogger Chris at August 26, 2005 03:02 PM