Bossy, the Jersey cow my son bought this past spring to raise calves on, delivered her AI calf Saturday. The dairy owner's wife gave me the wrong cow when I went to pick her up. (Culls do not give 60 lbs a day ) I buy his culls. Bossy was one of his best cows, AI bred to one of the top bulls in the US. I told the owner I would bring her back, he said a deal was a deal but he would be interested in the calf if it was a heifer.
I told him we would give him the calf free since we were given a good cow.
She had a bull calf. He is big. To big. Bossy became weak last night. I hoped it was just stress from the big baby.
She was dead when I went to the barn this morning. I now believe she was weak last night from internal bleeding. Bossy was a good cow, friendly, affectionate. She loved that baby. It was the first one she had ever been allowed to keep as dairy calves are immediately taken away and bottle fed. I petted her her last night as she licked her calf. She then began to lick my arm. Kandee asked why she was also licking me. I told her Bossy was thanking me for not taking her baby away.
I am trying to buy another cow and have the baby with Bessy, who is already nursing her calf and 2 others. Bess can't feed 4 and I do not like to mix feeding with powder and real milk.

I was driving the loader/backhoe to the little wildlife area to bury Bossy and I saw 2 deer. They were not afraid, just watched me. I have only seen 2 other wild deer on our property. One of them was years ago. That was neat to see wild deer not 30 feet away eating honeysuckle.
I am going to begin putting feed out to try and keep them close.
I really hate losing Bossy. She had personality, was a good cow.