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Jerry Crownover – Blessed to be on the farm
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Life Is Simple By Jerry Crownover Life is Simple By Jerry Crownover I t was almost dark on Labor Day evening, when my phone rang with the caller ID showing a nearby neighbor was on the other end. “What are you doing?” “I’m just laying here on the couch, watching TV. What’s going on?”
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My young neighbor asked if I might come over and look Jerry Crownover is at one of his cows that was having a problem. Assuming a farmer and former that he had already hit a dead end in trying to get a vet professor of Agriculture out, during a three-day holiday weekend, I assured him Education at Missouri that I would be right over. State University. He is a
I got dressed and drove the mile over to his corral, where native of Baxter County, the cow was confined. He proceeded to tell me that her Arkansas, and an water bag had been out for some time, but the cow was not author and professional straining or showing any other signs of labor, even though speaker. To contact Jerry, she was due to calve. go to ozarksfn.com and
“Well, let’s get her in the chute and see what might be click on ‘Contact Us.’ going on,” I requested.
The gentle cow went right in, so I gloved up and proceeded to enter the business end, when she promptly kicked the living daylights out of my right shin. The neighbor’s wife was there, holding the tail, so I was able to catch myself in time to only mutter the words, “SONOF-A….gun.”
After composing myself, I went in, again, up to my armpit, turned to the young couple and sadly stated, “We’ve got a problem.” All I could feel was a tail and one rear leg. For the next 45 minutes, in the hot and humid air of a late summer night, my neighbor and I took turns trying to retrieve at least one leg to have something from which to pull. Eventually we did get one leg out and proceeded to free a good, black bull calf from the confines of his mother. Unfortunately, and despite all our efforts to resuscitate the calf, it was no use. The young couple were, of course disappointed, but understood that this is a tough business on most days.
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