Right Or Wrong, Who's in Control??

The cows are definitely keeping us busy. The other day, my Farmer left the house around 5:00a.m. to check the cows.  He found a new calf had been born, however there was another cow trying to claim this calf, and she hadn't calved yet.  So my Farmer spent a couple of hours just trying to keep the mom and calf
separated from the cow that wanted the calf that wasn't hers. This can be real tricky sometimes. (I guess as tricky as me trying to explain it) If the wrong mom is aggressive enough, she will win over the real mom and claim the calf.  Then when the wrong mom does calve, she will just ignore her own calf.  So after some time, my Farmer decided it would be best to just bring the right mom and her calf to the corral to keep away from the wrong mom until she forgot about the wrong calf.  Well of course the wrong mom followed them all to the corral.  But after she was captured in the corner pen she decided that she didn't like it there after all.  Yep, you guess it, she created a new hole in the fence and escaped.  (well really she tried to jump over and didn't really clear it, there by creating the new hole in the fence.   By now it's almost 11:00am and my Farmer finally comes home for a quick breakfast. Then back out to fix the fence. While fixing the fence, the wrong cow calves.  But all is well because she has forgotten about the other calf so she claims her own.  However, her bag is to big for her calf to get a hold of, so we have to bring them to the corral and help him eat.  It is very important that the calf gets the colostrum from his mommas milk within the first 10 hours of his life.  Actually, if he does not get it within 24 hours, his chance of survival is not very high.  So Farmer has to bring wrong cow to the corral again, which usually does not work well, especially with in a couple hours of the first incident, cuz she will still remember that she didn't like it.  However, we were prepared this time, I was on the outside of the fence to spook her back, plus we had her right calf that she wouldn't leave.  So to make a long story not as long, we got her to the corral, helped the baby get something to eat, let the right cow and calf back out with the herd, and kept the wrong cow and her calf in the corral to watch.  Then as it was time for our dinner, another cow had calved and her calf still had not eaten.  So we brought her to the corral to assist.  Finally when everything was said and done, it as 10:00 and we finally made it back to the house to eat.  My pot roast that I had put on to be ready at 5:00 was done, very, very, done.  But we just made some gravy, smothered the overdone beef roast with it and finally called it a day.  Lesson learned:  We are never really in control of our lives, but during calving season, the cows are in control.