Every Wednesday is auction day. Quite often we have a bull calf to sell or sometimes a cow. My dad usually does the trucking and rarely fails to return home with some interesting tale of humor, adventure, or misadventure!
This week was no exception. It would seem a trucker came in with a bunch of heifer (female) calves. He informed the man who was checking the animals in that the load was all female. The man took a quick scan of the lot of them and informed the driver that two of them were bulls. The driver had no idea how this was possible. He was told they were all heifers! He would have to inform the owner, as bull calves do not generally sell for as much money as a heifer.
As dad recounted the exchange, I kept thinking back about a month. I was following a truck down a rather bumpy dirt road. Three calves were riding in the back of the truck and even though the truck was going slow, they were really getting jostled around! I couldn't help but laugh and had to comment, based on what I had seen previously, that it can be a very bumpy ride to the auction barn and perhaps some "extra options" got bounced down for a couple of those calves...
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