I call Tricia, "Theory Woman" sometimes, because she always has a theory about everything. Of course she has a theory about Rosie's reduction in milk. And here it is: Some things are attracted to one another like a magnet to steel. Some things put together just make a good pair like peanut butter and jelly, rice and gravy, and red beans and rice. Some attractions are deleterious like that of Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba. While yet other attractions are good and natural, but the timing is not quite right.
Tricia thinks that prior to building our "bull pen" that you see below that cordons off the bull from all the cows, Chuck escaped and bred Rosie. At that time we were trying (unsuccessfully) to keep them separated by just using an electric fence and that is about as effective as a screen door in a submarine. Chuck got out one night and Tricia saw he and Rosie together while she was in heat.
We are not positive that Rosie is bred, but Chuck did break through the fence at the time when she was in heat and she may have been exposed. We also haven't seen her go in heat since then. Finally, a reduction in milk production is a natural occurrence for cows that are bred. We're going to take a blood test from Rosie and send it off to confirm just to be sure. Tricia counted back and if she was bred, she'll calf in April. There's no other bull, so if she's bred, you're looking at the guilty party:
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