Some of "Pets"

[FlyingClayDisk]

If you're telling me you don't get attached to the cows just because they have a number, not a name, then I don't believe you. You get attached anyway. And heck, there is nothing wrong with that at all.

I ain't gonna' say nothin'! 

Truth is...yeah, they're cute little buggers when they're little, and they're a lot of fun, and we worry about them day (and night!), especially newborns.  As they get older, usually around 6mo or so, maybe 8 (depending on bulls or heifers), they kind of turn into just 'livestock'.  You still care about them; you always care about the animals when they're in your custody, but not in the same way as when they're just little ones.  By that time they've usually stepped on you a few times and slammed you into a corral panel or two, and you've got one scar or other from them.  Each one has developed a personality (usually based on momma's personality).  Then you really start looking at them from a risk perspective (i.e. this one is a jumper, this one is a runner, that one is a charger, etc.).  It's usually around the time they start to play this "game" where they think you think they're still calves, so they try to act like calves to get away with stuff, but 'homey don' plat dat no mo' and that's when they start pissin' you off for stuff like fences, and gates and all manner of other stuff.

[MissBeck]

If you're telling me you don't get attached to the cows just because they have a number, not a name, then I don't believe you. You get attached anyway. And heck, there is nothing wrong with that at all.

I ain't gonna' say nothin'! 

Truth is...yeah, they're cute little buggers when they're little, and they're a lot of fun, and we worry about them day (and night!), especially newborns.  As they get older, usually around 6mo or so, maybe 8 (depending on bulls or heifers), they kind of turn into just 'livestock'.  You still care about them; you always care about the animals when they're in your custody, but not in the same way as when they're just little ones.  By that time they've usually stepped on you a few times and slammed you into a corral panel or two, and you've got one scar or other from them.  Each one has developed a personality (usually based on momma's personality).  Then you really start looking at them from a risk perspective (i.e. this one is a jumper, this one is a runner, that one is a charger, etc.).  It's usually around the time they start to play this "game" where they think you think they're still calves, so they try to act like calves to get away with stuff, but 'homey don' plat dat no mo' and that's when they start pissin' you off for stuff like fences, and gates and all manner of other stuff.

They sound like a handful. I'm a tad jealous. I had dreams when young of living on/owning a farm and that lifestyle, but alas, I missed that boat and ended up 'up the duff' at 20 years old. Too late now.

[FlyingClayDisk]

They sound like a handful. I'm a tad jealous. I had dreams when young of living on/owning a farm and that lifestyle, but alas, I missed that boat and ended up 'up the duff' at 20 years old. Too late now.

We're actually more on the ranching side of things than the farming side.  We don't grow anything, just raise and breed cattle.  Farming is a whole other world.  Few people do both, at least around where I've been most of my life.  I imagine there are some who do it, but we just handle livestock.