Word: julieann
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...Brahman Not Covered At Disney World, just to the west, animals talk and dance. At Cape Canaveral, just to the east, sophisticated guidance systems are nothing unusual. In this climate, a pregnant, two-year-old Brahman cow named Julieann last week managed to navigate at least 25 miles of unfamiliar Florida terrain and get back to her former home. "We've had dogs that have come back five miles or so," says Read Hayes, from whose ranch near Christmas, Fla., Julieann bolted, "but nothing like this...
...Julieann was the least manageable of Sidney Kraftsow's 70 Brahmans. It was her terrific "craving for citrus fruit," says Kraftsow, that led her to leap over (and even limbo under) 4-ft. barbed-wire fences or bound across her 5-ft.-wide concrete cattle guard. "She was really a menace," he says. Fed up, Kraftsow sold the cow to Hayes for $350, a bargain price...
...Julieann had been away from home only a few hours when, at night in a driving rainstorm, she jumped out of her pen and over perhaps a dozen fences, crossed swamps and pastures and even swam across the Econlockhatchee River. Last Monday at dusk, 100 Ibs. lighter, she arrived back at Kraftsow's. "An incredible journey," says Kraftsow...
...trouble, Julieann was ordered back to Hayes. Says he: "Maybe motherhood will settle her down...
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