A cow's life goes aTwitter: North Dakota rancher uses social networking site

Dogs bark. Cats meow. Cows moo. But cattle tweet, too, at least when Val Wagner is involved. Wagner, who operates a cattle ranch with her husband, Mark, at Monango, N.D., about 50 miles south of Jamestown, N.D., recently began tweeting on Twitter from the perspective of a heifer on her family’s ranch. A heifer is a young, female cow that hasn’t had her first calf yet. So far, the tweets reflect the collective experience of the 27 heifers among the 167 cows on the Wagners’ ranch. But soon the tweets will focus on a single, still-to-be-chosen heifer. Wagner will pick a heifer after testing reveals which of the 27 are pregnant. The tweets will follow the selected heifer through her pregnancy this summer, fall and winter until she gives birth early next spring. After that, the tweets may switch to the perspective of the new calf, Val Wagner said...The Forum