When we bought the highland coos we arranged that we could take them back, when they were old enough, to see a bull that wasn't their father.
http://www.hunt-cam.fr
The time has finally come.
We had a great deal of 'fun' getting them in to the horse trailer.
Getting the trailer ready
Towing Islay up the field. Look what Hainoa is up to in the background! She is mounting Buttercup, and as Buttercup is standing still this means Buttercup is in heat.
We had to drag them both in to the trailer which was quite exhausting.
Islay was ok in the trailer once Hainoa was with her but Hainoa wasn't very happy. She was scared.
There are no photos at the the end as it was all a bit hectic. We got Islay out fine (or rather Sebastien did). Hainoa decided to fire out dragging Doug who had to let her go and then she set off through the village at full tilt having gored Sebastien (quite gently really). She ploughed through a fence then another fence still looking crazed and manic with Sebastien's son following her. Sebastien assured us it was all going to be ok and not to worry about her, so we focused on getting Islay to the field with the other cows. Islay decided to behave really really well, I think she is quite a calm cow really, just teenage at the moment. Fortunately - and as Sebastien had suspected - when we got to the field we found Hainoa already there making friends with nine new cows and the bull who is called Capi
This is him when he was younger. He is very fine looking now.
They have 30 coos altogether and maybe 3 bulls. They also have some Alpaca.
We hung around a bit but everything seemed very calm so we left them to have fun with their new friends. They will be there something like a month, maybe a bit more depending when they come in to heat. We saw two of Hainoa's sisters while we were there. One of them looked exactly like her.
I am not really looking forward to trying to get them back in to the trailer, but Sebastien is very calm and the cows love him so hopefully it will go ok!
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