Comments on: Artificial Insemination~And that’s NO BULL

By: Mary Connealy

Mary Connealy — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:39:48 +0000

God have mercy

By: Patricia Barraclough

Patricia Barraclough — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:32:56 +0000

Wasn’t laughing, we were in Colorado and our son was house sitting for us in Tennessee. He let our dogs out about 11PM. A bit later they were barking and wouldn’t come in. The young terrier wouldn’t leave the porch. The two old arthritic ones were in the pasture barking like crazy. Our son, Matthew, slipped through the barbed wire fence to haul them in. Unfortunately about 20 feet or so in, he bumped into a very angry, very large bear with 2 dogs barking at it. I’m not sure who threw the first punch, but my son punched the bear in the nose and the bear swiped at him. Matthew ran, jumped through the fence and the dogs followed. We found out the next day from our daughter – “Mom, don’t tell him I told you…”. I spent the next hour on the phone – our son, Fish and Game, the health department, the state vet. My son never did go to the doctor even though the game warden who investigated recommended he did. We got home 2 days later. I noticed his blankets were in the wash. Checked the bed and there was a three foot wide stain from where he had bleed. He has a nice pair of scars on his forearm and has lost some of the sense of touch on the top of his arm and left hand. It was the morning we got home from that trip at 2AM that the cow was on the porch.

By: Connie Lorenz

Connie Lorenz — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:19:13 +0000

Mary, once again you tickled my funny bone. Us Nebraska gals have to stick together. I grew up in town but married into a farm family…..my the things I learned in that first year!

By: Mary Connealy

Mary Connealy — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:04:01 +0000

A BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Not funny, Patricia. Or more correctly to say, while the bear was taking the chunk out ofyour son, were you standing there thinking, “Boy oh boy, someday we’ll look back on this and laugh.”

Bet not.

By: Patricia Barraclough

Patricia Barraclough — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:11:14 +0000

People don’t know what they are missing if they haven’t lived in the country. Never lived on a farm or ranch, but helped neighbors when growing up. Most people don’t realize how long artificial insemination has been done in the farming/ranching business. The dairy farm near us did it the old way, but the bulls were really vicious. We did have a few neighbors who raised black angus and used artificial insemination in addition to having a few bulls – this was in the 60’s.
The animal stories one can tell of funny (or not so funny) incidents is extensive. No rabid skunks yet, but a bear that took a chunk out of my son’s arm. Cows on the porch at 4AM knocking furniture off and trying to figure out how to get off.
It is never dull and that is the way life should be. Nice pictures.