Rosie and her baby

Rosie disappeared yesterday so I thought probably she went to bed down and have her calf so I left her alone. This morning I called the cows up and Rosie came but she had hidden the calf somewhere, so again I left her alone. Then this evening I called the cows up and she did not come, so worried about her because of coyotes, neighbors dogs and plus its going to get cold tonight with freezing rain they say. I lucked out and one of my sister happened to stop by for a visit so I put her to work helping me find Rosie. I had forgotten how a 1200 pound cow can disappear from the face of the earth if she does not want to be found! After over two hours of searching we went to the last place she was seen and tracked her. I have not done this in quite a while (about 15 years), so it took us almost 40 minutes of tracking to finally find her I guess we should have done that first though.

This is Rosie on the left when we found her. She does not look very hidden in this picture but she really was hard to see unless you got very very close.
On the right is me coaxing her to head for home. With Rosie she is very bull headed and it has to be her idea, so it took a while.






The picture on the left is Rosie and baby(finally) walking into the clearing and almost home!
On the right is Rosie getting her treat for being a good girl. This also gives her time to relax before we try to get her into the middle lot for the night.

Here is a picture of the new baby, with Rosie in the background. We had finally gotten Rosie to realize she wanted in the barn lot! I did not want to push the issue with her, if she would not have went in then we would have left her alone. I was keeping my fingers crossed though what with the weather and coyotes you never know......this way I will sleep better tonight.! :)

This is my sister Pat, I promised her as soon as Rosie decided to enter the barn lot she could set down....I just didn't realize it would be as soon as and the first thing she saw!! :)