Cows and thier lessons!

A life lesson from a cow
We were out moving some of our cows the other day. The neighbor cows had pushed down our gate and gotten in with our cows. The personality of the two groups of cows was  very obvious from the beginning. Even the cows knew it. They had segregated themselves even though they were all in the same field eating. We were trying to get our neighbor cows out and leave our cows in. My son had the whip and was on the gator. No cows were close to him nor were they going to get close as he was hitting the ground hard with the whip and they wanted no part of that. Mom - me - was glad of that and encouraged him to stand his ground. With that whip and the noise he made the cows wouldn't come anywhere near him.  And they didn't!
We have also learned that our cows take their Mom duties very seriously - like me. They are quite gentle and are fine with us being out there in the field even if we are making them move somewhere else they are fine with us being right by them. Their last owner treated them kind of like pets. But when they have brand new baby calves they become much more watchful. They will still let us come in with them we can even catch calves and give them their shots but mama cows sure watch. We think this is great due to the coyote population  near us being more than we would like.