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The long-awaited Lucky Star II finally came into the world. We are all beside ourselves with excitement, and no one more so than my daughter, Claudette. (Lucky Star, if you remember, is Claudette's only and favorite cow, and this is her first baby.) The calf weighs about 82 pounds and already has a tag in her ear marking her as Claudette's. She is absolutely perfect.
With a herd of more than 1,500, it is amazing how you can focus in on a single cow when it means so much to someone so small. On the ranch, the five grandkids all have cows--plural--except for Claudette, whose sole herd member is Lucky Star. When we palpated cows last January, my son, Royse, and my niece Logan each had a heifer we checked on, as did Claudette. But at that time, Lucky Star was open--meaning she was not bred--while both Royse's and Logan's heifers were four months along. There was nothing wrong with Lucky Star, according to our veterinarian; she was just taking her time. It was hard to explain to Claudette...
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