We had a calf yesterday and lost the mom soon after. The baby calf just wondered around outside the pen where Destiny (the pony) was. Well Destiny decided that she would be the baby's new momma. She walks along the fence with her and if the mini's, dog, or pig come near the fence or even look in the direction of the calf she goes and chases them off!! So now when we go down to check on them we ask Dessymomma where her baby is and she looks right to whereever the calf is at. I just think that this is funny to watch!! At least she is good with her.

that would be funny to watch.

when i was a kid, we had chickens (100's of them - sold the eggs) and also kept a few geese that just ran loose in the barnyard. every spring we'd get some pullets and keep them in a seperate brooder house until they got big enough to go into the henhouse. lots of times, we'd put goslings that the geese didn't take good care of in with the pullets, but we'd always turn the geese out into the barnyard when they got big and they just joined the rest of the geese. one year we had a goose that as soon as we turned her into the barnyard, she ran over to the door of the henhouse and just stood there all day pacing back and forth real nervous. after about 3 days of this, my grandpa finally decided that this goose was certain she was a chicken and so he just finally let her live in the chicken coop with the rest of them!

my mom also tells about "ginger" the duck she had that was best friends with the dog, the two of them were basically inseperable.

My mom had a sheep that thought it was a dog--went everywhere the dogs did--even in the house!! When someone would pull into the drive-way the sheep would run out and baa at you. Sometimes she wouldn't let you out of the car til you gave her a treat.

We have a runt pig (who isn't quite a runt now) that runs around and at first she thought she was a dog since she stayed with ours then after the house got here she decided that she was a horse and does the grazing and all!!

so doesn't anybody else have any stories like this? i'm sure you all do!

We had a turkey back home who thought he was one of the family. We would often eat outside in the yard (my mom LOVED eating outside and having a picnic) and he would come strutting around puffing out his feathers and just wanting to be close to us. I really think he thought he belonged at the picnic!

Another weird thing he did was look at his reflection in a shiny car bumper, and think it was another tom turkey. He would spend hours prancing and preening himself in front of the car.

Animals are so cool....especially farm animals.