Breaking the Law
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Breaking the Law
Clinton Hofer being questioned by a police officer after being stopped for speeding.
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Lonely Mother
This mother cow's small calf has died. She still has milk to give and is a good candidate for a surrogate calf, but will she accept a strange calf as her own offspring?
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Cowboy
Toby Hofer watches as cows are tagged. He has an important job, as King Colony relies on their livestock for much of their food and income.
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Preparing to Skin
Toby Hofer puts on his tool belt so he can cut the skin off a dead calf.
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Life-Giving Pelt
Toby Hofer skins a dead calf in order to graft its pelt to a live calf. The cow already has bonded with the dead calf's scent, so the hide of the of the dead calf must be placed onto a living calf so the mother will adopt the live calf and continue to create milk and raise it.
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Looming Lesson
Bertha Hofer gets a lesson in looming from looming enthusiast Karen South.
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Spinning Yarn
Bertha Hofer and Claudia get a lesson in looming. They are using a foot treadle to spin wool into yarn, which is used to weave into cloth on a loom.
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Hard to Learn
Claudia Hofer concentrates on looming, she never quite learns how to do it.
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Mother Daughter Bonding
In the mountains outside of Lewistown, Montana, Berth Hofer and Claudia Hofer sit on a trailer waiting to snowmobile as part of their mother-daughter bonding time.
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Ready to Ride
Claudia Hofer and Bertha Hofer prepare to go snowmobiling with their instructors.
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Snowmobiling Mama
Bertha Hofer grips the handlebars from behind her instructor while riding on the snowmobile.
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Snowmobiling
Claudia Hofer, wearing snow pants over her traditional Hutterite garb, smiles while holding onto her snowmobile instructor.
