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OH BABY!!

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As a rancher’s wife I get to enjoy the simple pleasures of raising cows.   I love it!   We brand the cows, doctor them when they are sick, yell at them if they are bad, or hug them if needed!   (Okay, maybe I am the only one giving them hugs!)   I am also the resident shot giver; I castrate, and I have even got to preg test.   For those of you who don’t know what that is, this means I put my entire arm (past the elbow) into a cow’s hiney checking to see if she’s with baby.   It sounds challenging, but for me it was one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced.   Getting to touch an unborn cow 3-4 months old was amazing.   Each spring our cows have babies.  These bundles of tiny black baby cows are so very adorable and gawkily all leggy and furry!           Their big dark eyes with long eyelashes just melt my heart!   My kids and I just love to watch them run and play bouncing around our pasture without a care in the world with their mother’s close by kee