Hunting with Mike

Yesterday my wife and I took two of our grandkids over to Calder’s dairy farm. It’s a working operation which makes all different kinds of dairy products, including ice cream. They deliver their products to local stores, and even do home delivery. There is an “on-site” dairy products store, and home made ice cream is their specialty. No trip to Calder’s would be complete without one of their cones!

The kids got to pet the calves, goats, donkeys, and horses. They saw geese, ducks, long-horned cattle, cats, dogs, and even watched the cows get milked. There is even a wildlife pond full of huge catfish and carp that you can feed. Usually there are a ton of wild geese nesting in the area. The kids had a great time, and we even took several pictures of them riding on the animal sculptures.

One animal not native to the farm was this beautiful male peacock, who was strutting his stuff! They have had to isolate the male and female peacocks, as the males were scratching customers cars! It’s mating season, and when the males would see their image reflecting off a shiny car, they would go into “attack” mode! I don’t know who ever came up with the idea to use a peacock call to locate turkeys, but I own one. Along with my owl, crow, and coyote calls I have enough to strangle me before I even get out of my truck! Truthfully though I have eliminated the peacock call, as the owl and crow call seem to work just fine. You have to admit - they are a “pretty bird.”

Mike

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