From A Distance

J said it was time to move the bred heifers from our rented farm across and down the road to our farm for the winter.  So, most times when cattle need to be rounded up I help, from a distance. 

 This time I stayed in the truck.

 But with my zoom lens, I could see the heifers.

 Once they were in the pen, I was allowed in a little closer. 

This little one was a bit of a surprise this summer.  J came in one day and said he thought one of the heifers had aborted.  But when he checked on them the next day, he found this little one.  Apparently, there was some hanky panky J didn't know about.  The rest aren't due to calve until March.  This one was just 6 months early.

 Anyway, back to my job.  Now I am supposed to be running around the outside of these fragile pens to keep the heifers from putting any pressure on the fence while J squirts wormer on them.  It must have worked because he got them dewormed and nothing broke out.

 Now time to back way away while J drives them into the road. 

 We had pulled the truck down the road in the direction they were going to be going in hopes it would block them until J got them all out then could drive down to the next gate and open it.

 And it worked.  I just had to hold them in the road until J got to the truck, then turn them and herd them the 1/2 mile to our gate.

 They were very cooperative.

Home again jiggity jog.