The Superior Express -

Rural entertainment has picked up on the Schlaefli farmstead. A few days ago our neighbor turned his cow-calf herd out in the field directly across the road from our house. The cows seem content as there is plenty to eat as they are stationed in a tall green wheat field. Some of the cows have had their calves and some are still in the process of calving. The little calves are bouncing around but never travel far from their mothers.

The newborn calves are hard to see when they lay down in the thick wheat. Once in a while the calves play with each other, bumping heads together and circling around to make another challenge. One evening as two calves were playing, the mother cows came close by and they too began to bump heads against each other, backing off and then returning to the romping.

Every so often the neighbor comes driving out into the field in his four wheeler, and checks on the herd. Once in a while he finds a newborn calf and makes sure everything is okay with the calf and it’s mother before he travels on to do more inspecting.

For some this entertainment would not be classified as such but I’m certainly enjoying it. The entertainment will not last long though, and when the wheat has been shortened enough, the neighbor will be moving the cows and their calves on to another eating place.

The way the pasture lands are beginning to green up, it won’t be long before the farmers and ranchers will be moving their cattle into the pastures where they will be stay through the summer months. Hopefully the spring rains will come to keep the pasture ponds full and the grass plentiful.