chattius 2,666 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2013 We had some river flooding weeks ago. A local farmer brought his cows uphill to our place. One cow gave birth to 3 calves and our daughter was kinda made their godmother snd could choose the names. Yesterday she was helping the farmer to bring the herde of cows on the other side of a secondary road. And she did it while riding a zebra.She saw pictures and videos that zebras are less annoyed by horseflies because of the stripes. So she used medical clay to camouflage our black friesian horse inspired from this picture:http://www.cavallo.de/sixcms/media.php/6/thumbnails/700_SimoneSteiner.JPG.3519318.JPG We had way more mosquitos and insects than normal because of the flooding so my wife helped her to do the camouflage.Is this just a german thing, or are there suddenly more zebras in the world? 2 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted August 1, 2013 hahaha, what a great story! Your daughter was so inspired. Gosh I'm so lazy sometimes, chattius how does your family do it...plus, "oh btw, we had three calves... " gratz on the newborn, when is there time for Videogames? gogo Link to comment
chattius 2,666 Author Share Posted August 1, 2013 We have a lot of animals but no cows. We live near mountain top. The juicy gras is down at valley. If the valley gets flooded the farmer there asks us if he can bring his caddle uphill. He could bring it to his own land but that would need the crossing of 3 secondary roads with 15000 cars a day. He didn't know that the cow would have 3 calves and the stress of moving was probably the reason why it happened at our place. The Zebra trick: http://www.livescience.com/18386-zebras-stripes-nasty-flies-buzz.html Link to comment
