Staying indoors
Last saturday was the last time the cows spent their day in the field. Coz there's no more fresh grass for them to graze on and coz the weather's getting cold, it's now time to bring them into the cow house and keep them there, all the way through winter. That's months and months of staying indoors in a tiny stall!
That was a rainy, gloomy day. I go out and all the cows were already standing at the exit area desperately waiting to be brought into the warm and toasty cow house. So there they've gotta cross the road and head back up the slope to the cow house.
Now that they are indoors, also means that there's more work to do getting the grass to them every morning and evening so that they can eat 24/7 not stop, as they always do.
Which means i gotta get from this...
(that's a new ball of grass Inge's bringing onto the grass machine which churns out the grass onto the wagon below for me to cart away)
To this...
The whole centre aisle has to be filled with grass for the cows to eat. And they eat a hell lot. We go through about one ball each day. That's me moving up to 700kg (about 28-30 wagon trips) of grass in a day for those hungry eating machines.
That was a rainy, gloomy day. I go out and all the cows were already standing at the exit area desperately waiting to be brought into the warm and toasty cow house. So there they've gotta cross the road and head back up the slope to the cow house.
Now that they are indoors, also means that there's more work to do getting the grass to them every morning and evening so that they can eat 24/7 not stop, as they always do.
Which means i gotta get from this...
(that's a new ball of grass Inge's bringing onto the grass machine which churns out the grass onto the wagon below for me to cart away)
To this...
The whole centre aisle has to be filled with grass for the cows to eat. And they eat a hell lot. We go through about one ball each day. That's me moving up to 700kg (about 28-30 wagon trips) of grass in a day for those hungry eating machines.
posted by Farmer Sam at 1:24 AM
2 Comments:
Do you talk to the cows?
My grand father ( my fathers father ) always talked to the cows, he also had names on the cows that they actually responded to. we once had a cow called Caroline, and she was very smart and responded to her name very well- She used to twin the electrical fence with her horns and let all her friends go out on the fields outside the fence and then after they have gone trough she shot the fence wires over her back without getting any shots. Then if we saw that and screamed to her to go back in - SHE DID :-)
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