Jomanda Childrens Super Soft Highland Cow Earmuffs Orange

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The first thing she noticed on the old muffs was that they would be useless if they got wet and frozen.

Poad estimates they've sold 1,000 to 1,200 Moo Muffs so far. They expect that number to grow as stores and other sales organizations have signed on to distribute the Moo Muffs, including a distributor in Japan. Except for the newborns, who need special protection. The first winter after the fire, Poad got by with keeping close tabs on her calves, making sure they had plenty of bedding and hoping for the best. Some of their ears, she said, "got a little nipped" by frostbite.

According to Poad, the muffs are made of fleece and lined with nylon. In a 2020 interview, she added that calves “don't even act like they know that they're on. They're not like trying to rub their head on stuff or get them off. I put them on when they're, you know, within an hour old, so they really don't even pay any attention to them." upvotes Follow Unfollow 4 years ago Dots Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 The first pair of Moo Muffs were made in February 2018. After our family barn burned down in 2016, we had to come up with an innovative way to keep our calves comfortable in the winter months. And not long after, Moo Muffs were officially born! No people or animals were hurt in the blaze, but "you don't realize what you have until it's gone," Poad said. "Everything was lost."

Moo Muffs are made of a hardy nylon material on the outside, and soft, warm fleece on the inside. They are simple, with ear coverings that look likeelongated spades and a few adjustablestraps that hold them on a calf's head. The family has put up temporary shelters, burly tent-like structures that work to keep equipment out of the elements. The shop was moved to property in town. And because Poad's cattle are beef cows, not a dairy herd, they can handle the weather. For her part, Poad wants her show cattle to be as handsome as they can be, obviously, because their value is in their looks. But it goes deeper than that. She loves these little calves. And that kind of love is driving the business forward. Moo Muffs are earmuffs for calves. Interest in them took off in January when a reporter for WMTV posted about them on social media. A polar vortex was plunging temperatures to their coldest in decades, and farmers across the Midwest were looking for ways to save their calves' ears from frostbite. Poad had experienced the same problem after her family's barn burned three years ago and the calves were out in the cold.upvotes Follow Unfollow 4 years ago (edited) Dots Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ewerswent to the nearest craft shop and found the nylon material, which will shed water and helped give the Moo Muffs a better shape. She and Poad experimented with fit; Poad would try the first versions on her calves and suggest modifications.

Apparently, baby cows wear special earmuffs to protect them from the cold, and it's the cutest thing ever.

She bought a pair of cow earmuffs, but to save money, she asked her aunt Kim Ewers if she could make others.