Isn’t he cute? He sure is, but he is a handful. People see his cute picture and think how fun it would be to have a bottle baby to feed, but that’s only one side of the story. That cute picture doesn’t show the weeks of trying to work with his mom and save her bag in order to feed her baby. The pictures don’t show the expense of feeding and raising a bottle baby and the sadness of having to take his mom to the stockyard. There are no photos of feeding “Rev” in the freezing cold and rain, late at night, or early in the morning. And there are no videos of his cries once he was moved to the barn where it was warm and dry, his mom gone. Rev can honestly say (if baby cows could talk), no one is seeing the real me!
We take a lot of pictures on the farm, especially of cattle. We use photos for the blog, we send photos to folks looking to buy cattle, and then sometimes we just take photos to have because we like this one or that one. Either way, our phones are full of cattle pictures and all of them aren’t pretty. We don’t show people the ones where the cows are covered in mud and poop. We try not to show the ones where the cows are standing goofy or not positioned in just the right way. We don’t always get it right, but we sure try not to post or share the “bad” photos.
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