Calf Thief

With the first calf heifers right below the house, we can just look out the window and see a lot of what is happening out there.  Last night there was a heifer calving right out from the kitchen window.  We were able to watch her while eating dinner. Everything looked great until another heifer walked by with her calf.  The one calving decided she would rather have the one that was already here instead of waiting for her own, so she got up and took out after it.  

There was a lot of running around and jockeying for position.  She finally won.  The calf is laying in front of the one calving while her mother is standing off to the side.  Obviously, this won't do.  J and I went out to separate them.

Heading to the barn lot the calving heifer was still in charge. 

All of the running around and now the sound of the 4-wheeler got the yearlings in the next field all worked up too. 

J was on foot and did some fast sprinting. 

And we managed to get the one calving in a lot by herself.  She finally settled down and went back to work and had a nice bull calf after dark.