The cows...

I've been loving the new life and all it has to offer, including helping his dad with the farm.  I've been somewhat fascintaed with the normal everyday animals such as the chickens & cows.  Well today was another first for me, we had to tend to a sick cow.  It's been off to itself for the last few days, and his dad seems to think it ate too many acorns.  I guess I never realized something so small could cause a cow so much pain.  Our morning started out by trying to get the sick cow into the shute, so that his dad could get some mineral oil into the cow.  I'm guessing to hopefully get thing moving thru it's system.  You could tell that it was sick, it didn't want to walk up the hill.  No matter what we tried we couldn't get that cow to move, and it put up a good fight.  But I've never been that close to a cow, where it didn't run from me.  So they finally got her down on the ground and got the oil down her throat.  She stayed down and lay there, so we left her alone for a few hours.  Sadly she died later in the afternoon.  It's interesting to watch how the other cows act, how they can sense when something is wrong with one of their own.  They gathered around her, as if to say goodbye.  They also watched while the cow was buried.  Another chapter in life on the farm.