Thus we ship out our cattle to another farm that they we live on for the next couple months. Luckily we have a friend of a friend that in the last couple of years decided to sell his cattle but keep his farm. So that is where our cattle are headed.
I would take pictures but they are going about 40 minutes drive away and it is too hard with the wee ones and the already stressed out cattle. Plus it is easier on the cattle the less people that are there to create confusion for them.
We hook up a bunch of gates to go around the trailer. We don't have a trailer so we hire someone who has one and then he also helps load and unload the cattle. We even put the manure spreader up against it because sometimes cattle can get pretty stubborn and forceful.
We have to make sure that the right cow goes on with the right calf as well because just like us, they don't want to lose their babies either. There is a separate gate in the trailer that helps keep the cows on and separated while driving.
Here is one cow on the trailer and although she looks stressed and a little crazed, she is not. She is a little stressed because she doesn't know what is going on but it is mostly because they have to stretch up to see out of the trailer.
Once they get to the pasture with fresh grass they calm right down and are just concerned with filling their bellies! It is just like when we get the first crop in from the garden and it tastes SO good and you can't seem to get enough, well it is the same with cattle and fresh grass after a winter of hay. I should also mention that we still have to check them at pasture although the owner of the farm is really good at keeping his eye on them also.
We are keeping two cows on the farm here because we don't have enough room for them anywhere else. They don't know it right now but later this summer they will reap the benefits of fresh apples off our tree.
So that is what is going on around the farm today.
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