Joe and I celebrated the New Year by getting the cattle up and weaning the calves.
The, getting the cattle up, was the hard part. They were very uncooperative. They started out following the tractor, but turned and went back into the bottom where Joe had fed them for the last few days.
Joe’s face says it all. We started over again but it still involved a lot of running around to get them out of the bottom and headed to the next field.
And the next field wasn’t any better. Joe had been saving some grass there for the calves after weaning and the cows didn’t want to leave it. It took us about 45 minutes to finally get them all out and into the barn lot.
We sorted out the cow and dewormed them,
And then the calves.
The calves went back out the the field with the grass.
And the cows headed out to an adjoining field for fence line weaning.
A small problem was that the horses were in the way of the open gate and they took the opportunity to run through it. I had Hugo shut in the barn lot so they just ran down to see him which was pretty much out of the way.
The cows behaved from here and we got them where we were wanting.
The goats have been split up for a few days and the ones that were in the horse field also got out. So I had to get the horses back where they belonged and the goats on over to where the other ones were. My phone says I walked/ran 4.2 miles and did 34 flights of stairs. I think I got all my steps in today.
2 comments:
That is a lot. Especially when you usually make it all look so easy.
Great photos of the cow bellowing and the calf running out of the barn
The red cow was sure telling you off! Dang red heads.
It's so exasperating when they turn back! but way to get'r'done.
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