At least she is ...

pretty a good milker. 

In the new barn, on the side with the fresh cows, we have free stalls. This means that the buffs get their very own individual sawdust bed to sleep in. In theory.
Some of them still choose to lie out on the cement, but I'm sure in time they will make their way into a stall. Another one is halfway there, lying partially in the sawdust while her back half is out in the alley.

And then there's Paula; let me tell you about Paula. 
Paula is what you'd probably call a "cute ugly"- she's short and squat, has a lumpy udder, one horn is just a stub (one is curled), and she's dreadfully slow at times. Sometimes it takes three people and a lot of patience to get her out of her milking stall. With those she knows, she is super sweet, and after she was separated from her calf this year, she took to following some of us around. When the veterinarian, or "strangers" come near, she's the one jumping around at the fence, tossing her head, snorting through her nose, and coming across as slightly intimidating; the calm trusting side, the following you around the barn to rest her head on your shoulder side, no longer detectable. 
One of Paula's "quirks" was her continuous habit of getting the barn's gate chain wrapped around her curled horn. We would find her in the morning, standing at the gate tangled in the chain, a pile of poo behind her (indicating that she would be like this for hours during the night), waiting patiently for someone to unwind the chain to free her.
Now that she is in the new barn, and we do not have chains on the gates, one would think the barn was fairly "Paula-proofed" ... 
Yes, one would think.
As it turns out, Paula does like the free stalls, but she seems to lack the skill to get out of one. She simply cannot fathom how to get her back legs to step into the gutter. Twice daily, we have to lift one leg over the edge, and it is only then that she will back out. That's a heavy leg to lift! But we do it ... because we have no choice.

Obviously she is not the brightest buffalo in the herd. 

And she's not the prettiest. 

But, she's one of our best milkers. And she makes us laugh.