Dad has been shopping for cows this week....all week at the Billings Public Auction Yard, i.e. the stockyards,while I have been out in real stores buying Xmas stuff. On his 4th day of shopping (Saturday) he finally found some worth bidding on...... 24 pregnant Hereford Cows. Buying them required patience and long-suffering. Four days of sitting in on auctions like this one:
But it was worth it. We arrived Saturday at Billings Livestock at 9 a.m. and at 5:45 p.m. (I'll do the math--nearly 9 hours later) the cows he wanted came into the ring. Nine Hereford (brown with a white wooly face) pregnant cows. We nervously bid on them, listening to the auctioneer announce a higher bid, and then bidding again and again until we won!
In March these cows will calve out and we will have 48 new cows! Way to double your investment, Sweetie!
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