Last fall, a neighbor of mine called to say he had a small Guernsey
cow, which wasn’t producing enough milk to keep her spot in his herd.
Since she was already bred, he hated to send her to slaughter, so he
said he’d give her to us.
She could hang out with our cows and if she had a heifer (female) calf in the spring we could then sell the calf for a few hundred dollars, which would more than pay for the hay Rufus, the cow, would eat over the winter. Plus, since Rufus didn’t produce a lot of milk, the calf would drink it all and we wouldn’t have to milk her, so we agreed.
Spring came and so did the calf; only it wasn’t a heifer, it was a bull. Now what?