How the cow got its udders!!
Read and written by Sophie James.
How the cow got its udders!!
Read and written by Sophie James.
Once upon a flower field on a sunny day there was a cow called daisy. Daisy had just given birth to a calf called buttercup. And because buttercup was a new born she needed milk like any other newborn cow to help make her bones stronger. So every day Daisy had to travel several miles to get to her local barn to get a hoof-full of goat's milk from Penelope the mothering goat. Another day passed and one was rising as Daisy set off on her journey again leaving buttercup with wind dancer her father and all buttercups closest friends. When daisy arrived she saw to men with their backs straight and they were looking directly at her. One of them was holding a bell attached to a halter and the other was holding a lasso-like lead rope made out of chain. They started to make clicking noises as they made movement with their hands as they slowly approached. Daisy knew what was going to happen…..
The next day Daisy woke up in a metal cage surrounded with other cows. One by one the cows got taken away onto a machine with the sounds of chopping echoing from it. But the cows didn't come out. Daisy was a bony cow so she was taken into a laboratory. She was first fed some oats then she was constantly given milk. The men were seeing if cows could prejudice milk! Daisy was in that lab for hours and hours on end. That experiment went on for hours then days then weeks and then months until the two men decided it was a fail. Daisy was free to roam the meadows again and search for new adventures. But the story isn’t over yet… Oh yes it has just begun..
Daisy was frightened of the idea of being tested again so she went around the different biomes to find her calf a different sauce of milk. First she spotted a doe with its fawn so she strolled up the hill and when she got to the top there was a stag! Its horns were pointed at her face so she quickly reversed in a trot. Only a mile away from the stag she saw a bee hive. She stuck her face in an opening and there was a queen bee with her stinger facing Daisy’s nuzzle. Attack commanded the queen bee and as expected the queen bee’s loyal slaves obeyed. By the time she escaped that disaster her nose was no longer a pastel pink but a bright neon red.
Daisy headed over to the cool spring to release the pain until a frog came up to her and said “Rudolf?... I didn’t know you were so spotty. Let me guess, is it Santa..?” Daisy replied in a calm voice and replied back saying “thanks for the compliment but i am no Rudolf.” By the time Daisy looked over, noticed the frog was not listening, only nodding his head and singing “Rudolf the rednosed reindeer has a very Neon nose and is quite gloomy todaaaaaaay.” Daisy frowned as she felt a pinch. “Ow!!’ bellowed Daisy in a high pitched voice. The frog looked over and said “What is the matter Rudolf”. As he looked at her belly and noticed a midge. Gosh that looks painful so he swooped his long elegant tong across the midges face and scooped it up in his mouth like a spoon scooping up soup. Daisy headed back home after a tiring day of failures. When she got back her calf daisy started head butting daisy’s belly. Until finally she nudged and nuzzled it so much that the milk daisy had been given constantly the previous day swelled up in her bite too much and burst four holes in it and when Daisy looked down she saw her big bite that had swelled up the size of a beach ball! “I will call this an udder and I shall be the first the first cow to discover it”. She bellowed loudly.