Elf…

On the shelf, Texas style…

And if you’re wondering ‘what’ the elf is doing, it’s ‘assisting’ a cow to deliver.

Soooo… To be correct, this would be at 0300, in the freezing rain, in the middle of a muddy pasture… And the cow is gonna be PISSED by the time the elf finished ‘helping’, and chase it up the nearest tree.

h/t Jim W for the pic

 

Comments

Elf… — 19 Comments

  1. I’ve watched a lot of Dr. Pol. No explanation needed.

  2. Could be worse, could have to use one of those chain rachet pole thingies…

    Which always seem to be required when it’s raining on an almost frozen night and the cow has been in such pain that it’s rolled around and covered in poop and it’s cold and miserable and the only help is the 90 year old farmer…

    Yeah, seen Dr. Pol. Read the Harriet books.

    Talked to my dad (where he swore the only time it got freezing cold in SE Louisiana was during a difficult delivery. The man hated cold weather, so of course the AF assigned him to an Air Base in Korea during the winter, and of course, as soon as he retired he moved to Florida where the first winter it snowed… just south of Patrick AFB (just south of Canaveral.)

    Our family luck. It doth sucketh… 🙂

  3. I pulled quiet a few myself but never in a pasture. Not so bad on dairy cows in a stall barn. Probably worse in the free stall barns I worked in Alaska for a couple years! Read Herriot years ago, only had three or four prolapsed uterus (calf bed out) over the twenty years I did dairy.

  4. Same as KD above ! Only until I turned 17 and asked Uncle Sam for a job for the next 20+!

  5. I don’t want to know what it says about my taste in reading (cough*BaxterBlack*cough) or friends that my first thought was “OB chains.”

  6. All- Thanks for the comments, and no TXRed, we don’t want to know either…LOL

    Posted from my iPhone.

  7. ‘Bout time that little staff weasel did some honest work!

    Also +1 for Baxter Black. Saw him at the Western WA Fair one year.

  8. Been there, done that…more times than I care to recall, riding with my dad, a veterinarian in a small town in Iowa, and working on my granddad’s farm, where he raised Angus cows.

  9. Been there done that. Grandpa used to get tired of pulling so we would hook the chains to the old Ford and bump start it. I just remember Grandpa yelling at me to not let it actually start.