Promised Land Homestead

Sold! (...sort of)

As you may already know from my wife's blog, our cow Chloe is FINALLY pregnant.  After two tries at AI and one try with the bull, she finally got bred.  Two days before we even got the results in we had a nice lady from New Mexico calling to inquire about her.  As soon as she turned up pregnant the lady claimed her for her own.

We are hoping to get her shipped to NM tomorrow, but things are getting a little hairy.  The shipper who's coming to pick her up will be here Thursday at an unknown time.  The problem there is that the vet has to come by on Thursday at 2:30 to confirm that her TB test is negative.  She can't be shipped to NM without a negative TB test and current health certificate.  We're hoping everything falls in place nicely tomorrow for us to get her on the trailer and on the road.  I would hate for this lady to have to pay another shipper to come take her to NM.  I'd also hate for her to determine it's not worth the cost and cancel the purchase.  Fingers crossed.

I'm sure if the sale falls through we'll get her sold soon.  We've had several people ask about her.  We will miss old Chloe.  She was our first cow and the one we learned on.  She's really a sweet cow, and despite her slight "kicky-ness" in the stanchion, she was wonderful.  We wish we could have kept her.

Hopefully we'll get some good pictures of her departure and the new owner said she'd send a few of her trampsing around her new stomping grounds.