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A New Baby



Little Guy was so excited. A heifer had given birth to her first calf. Now she was a new mama and Little Guy had a new playmate. Oh, Boy!!

Grandaddy had been keeping a close eye on the heifer. Then the neighbors called. In the pasture right next to their house, the heifer had laid down and was about to give birth. Grandaddy rushed out. He got there in time to see that mama and calf were fine. The neighbor was taking photos of the newborn with her camera phone.

Then one of the other cows got jealous. She wanted attention too. So she came over and knocked the new mama and tried to take her calf. Grandaddy got really mad. He made the cow go away. The heifer was so scared. She got her new baby and away they went until they got to the fartherest corner of the pasture.

Grandaddy tried to give the new mama some sweet feed. Cows always like sweet feed. She wanted no part of it or him. It hurt his feelings. He left the bucket with the feed anyway, climbed on his red buggy and went back to the house. Little Guy felt bad for Grandaddy.

The next morning the new mama cow still wouldn't let Grandaddy come near her. He left the feed and she ate it after he was gone. That evening, the same thing happened. Little Guy saw her snub Grandaddy. She almost ran with her calf to get away from him. Little Guy knew Grandaddy would never hurt the new mama cow or her calf. Why didn't they know it?

Finally, Mama went to see what was going on. She grabbed a few pears and took them with her. The new mama cow loved pears. The cows were standing under a big oak tree by the pond. Mama walked right up to the new mama cow and handed her a pear. She took it from Mama's hand and chomped away. Little Guy stood next to his Mama and watched. He wanted to go over and meet the new calf but Mama said no.

They walked back to the house. Mama told Grandaddy she didn't see any problem with the cow. Everything seemed fine to her. That really upset Grandaddy. It took several more days of sweet feed but he was finally able to get the cow to forgive him. He didn't know what he'd done wrong (he'd only yelled at the mean cow not the new mama cow and her baby!).

Mama cow and baby are doing fine. Little Guy finally got to meet the new baby! It's a little boy who is already triple the size of Little Guy.
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