Child’s Play?

No, instead, Calves Play! Oh what a fun morning I had!  Since the calves have been weaned, I don’t get to interact with them while I am milking, so I usually go over and love on them in their stall before I leave the barn if I am not taking them out to the pasture.  This morning, however, Micah took them out to the pasture while I was finishing up, so I didn’t get my chance to love on them.

As I headed to the house with my equipment full of milk in tow, I looked over at the pasture and there were those two precious black faces watching me.  So I stopped, dropped the handle of the wagon and trudged through the little bit of glistening snow in the yard that as yet was untouched by foot or paw prints toward the pasture.

Immediately both Oreo and Truffle came up and started licking my coat, eating the strings on my hood and enjoying the loving I was giving.  Then I decided to play our little game: I took off running and disappeared from their view around behind the shelter.  Just as I expected they would, here they came bounding around the shelter to find me.  We played this game several times, each time I go around the next corner of the shelter and wait in a safe place for them to come and find me.  Then Truffle surprised me!  She came at me from the other side of the shelter bounding toward me with all her energy.  She responded to my startled reaction by kicking up her legs and running down the pasture lane, with Oreo following, his little Oreo cream spot showing as he ran.

They tore around the front pasture a little bit and then headed back toward me running at their top speed. When they returned to me, we played our little game of hide and seek again.  Soon, they were running down the pasture again, kicking up and having such a great time! I was laughing out loud and enjoying myself so much I didn’t even feel the cold! What a great way to get my heart pumping and get my morning exercise!  You should try it sometime!