Red Robin
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I checked calvers tonight about dark. I had a heifer walking with her tail out but no water bag. I decided she had just started so I went and ate supper. When I came back the whole bunch had moved half a mile up the creek and bedded in grass on dry ground. I found my heifer laying with the rest on the outside of the bunch in the moonlight/headlights. I moved the truck around her and saw a brand new baby still in the water bag except it's head. It's about 40 with no wind . I shut the truck off to watch and make sure the overly calm heifer would take her new prize. After a minuite or two of the baby flopping it's head around the new cow got up and followed the well trodden path of a million mothers before her and started cleaning the calf off. It was quiet and most of the rest were still bedded down except for some inquisitive bovine midwives who occasionally checked on the new member. I listened as the brand new mother sweetly , lowly, talked to her new baby. I like that noise. I know you have all witnessed the scene but the serenity struck me . I though of the birth of my own children. Life is good.