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In reply to the discussion: Weird things you have accomplished [View all]sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)with my uncle at about 1:00 AM in the middle of February during a near blizzard. It was damned cold and I was into that poor cow to my armpit to wrap the pulling chain around the calf's legs.
To see that little calf stand up was one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced. When we finally got the calf out I swear the cow became my friend for life. We got them back to the barn and I went to school the next Monday with one hell of a story.
I was just a kid, maybe 12 or 13, and normally a calf like this would go to market in a couple of years but my uncle placed her into the breeding stock instead. He swears that he did that because it was a good heifer but my Grandfather told me years later that he kept it because it was my "first" calf.