{"id":1355,"date":"2009-05-23T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailycoyote.net\/index.php\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T15:48:00","slug":"bovine-benetton-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Bovine Benetton Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is Daisy and the orphaned calf (refresh your memory here<\/a><\/strong> if need be).\u00a0 When I first put them together, Daisy barred her udder from the calf, as she had never had a calf on her before (at the dairy where Daisy used to live {and I am sure this is the case with all commercial dairies}, they separate cows and their calves immediately, and while the calves are fed their mother’s milk via bottle, it’s in essence business as usual for the cows.)\u00a0 So, ’twas not surprising that Daisy shooed the calf away whenever he attempted to suckle.\u00a0 I milked Daisy twice a day and fed the calf her milk with a bottle.<\/p>\n

One day, a week and a half or so into it, I spotted the calf tentatively sucking Daisy!\u00a0 He had been persistent enough in his attempts, and Daisy curious and calm enough in her nature, to allow this great step to occur.\u00a0 And now there is no tentativeness about it.\u00a0 He ambles up and reaches out his long curving tongue, which is practically like a finger, and draws her teat into his mouth and absolutely gobbles.\u00a0 {For those of you who’ve never had an up-close view of a calf drinking off a cow, it’s really quite awesome – in the pic above, you can see the calf’s tongue reaching up and curling around the teat (his tongue is purple on the top and pink on the underside; the pink going into his mouth is the underside of his tongue, not the teat) creating a sort of seal up against the udder.\u00a0 And they drink so heartily and singlemindedly that frothy milk-slobber is a given.}\u00a0 Daisy stands patiently with (and I may be anthropomorphising here) a look of serene fulfillment as the calf drinks from both front teats.\u00a0 That’s the deal the calf and I have:\u00a0 he gets the front two teats, and I get the back two.\u00a0 I milk the back teats morning and evening and leave the front ones for him; he drinks from the front teats throughout the day and leaves the back ones for me.\u00a0 It works fantastically.<\/p>\n

Daisy is like a really, really, really big dog.\u00a0 She follows me around without a halter, loves to be pet and scratched, walks through the corrals and straight to the milking stall without fail, and lets me use her as a sofa. {It is such a decadent yet simple pleasure to lay against Daisy, reading a book, while she herself is laying in the sun chewing her cud.\u00a0 The only slightly negative aspect is (and I think you all should adopt this term the next time you want to call someone a nasty name): Cud Breath.\u00a0 It’s less than pleasant.}<\/p>\n

The calf is gargantuan.\u00a0 I think he’s quadrupled in size in the past two or three weeks.\u00a0 He’s still a bull calf (as opposed to a steer calf, which is a male calf that has been castrated), and he’s really probably very most likely going to grow up to be a bull.\u00a0 One reader emailed me with the advice, “Don’t name food,” but I don’t follow directions all that well and this calf has seven names.<\/p>\n

And that’s the latest with these two.\u00a0
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This is Daisy and the orphaned calf (refresh your memory here if need be).\u00a0 When I first put them together, Daisy barred her udder from the calf, as she had never had a calf on her before (at the dairy where Daisy used to live {and I am sure this is the case with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}