Soule: Scottish Highland Curious Bleu was king of the barnyard—until now

My husband and I own Miles Smith Farm. In my retirement, I train cattle to work in a yoke, pull a cart, and offer visitors the "Ultimate Cow Experience." Bleu, the longtime star of that experience, recently retired after injuring one of his horns.

His story began in 2012, when my husband said, "Laverne's newborn ran off into the woods." Two weeks earlier, another calf had wandered into that same forest. The coyotes found him before we did.

Searching hadn't saved that first calf, so this time, in the thick of my fear, something shifted. Instead of clutching the problem and trying to solve it myself, I turned to Laverne. I slipped a halter on her and let her walk into the woods alone. Would she disappear too? Or would she find her lost calf?

The next morning, I stepped outside to find Laverne and her calf standing side by side at the gate.

Because he was born under a blue moon that August, I named the calf Bleu and later wrote a children’s book, The Curious Little Calf Named Bleu.

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Carole Soule is co-owner of Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, N.H., where you can have an Ultimate Cow Experience and hug Finn, Bleu's brother. Carole can be reached at carole@cow-coach.com.