God is in his holy Temple.
He is a father to orphans,
and he defends the widows.
God gives the lonely a home.
He leads prisoners out with joy,
but those who turn against God will live in a dry land.
If a dam (mother cow) does not bond with her calf
immediately after birth, there’s a good chance she will reject it. In the case
of twins, it is not uncommon for the dam to reject one twin while bonding with
the other. If this occurs, the owner usually rescues the rejected twin,
removing it from the herd and placing it in the safety of a barn where the twin
is then bottle fed until mature enough to be returned to the pasture.
This is what happened with a twin born earlier this year on
the farm where I live.
When my daughter, Rebekah, and her two sons, my
grandsons, came to visit, I told them about the rejected calf, now bottle
fed by my sister-in-law Katie. Hoping to get a glimpse of the process, we
walked to the barn at the time we thought the calf would be fed. Unfortunately,
Katie had finished and was cleaning up, but she called the twin over to the
fence so we could see her, “Come here, Terry.”
