Mrs ERJ and I were in Lansing when our neighbor sent us this picture of the cows on the beach beside her pond.
We turned around and drove back home.
This is a tough time to keep the critters in the pasture. There is standing, dead grass for them to eat in Sprite's pastures but it is not very palatable. And there are sprigs of new grass just starting growth which the girls LOVE to eat.
One advantage of feeding them a bit of corn on a regular basis is that they cheerfully follow me. I led them back through Sprite's pasture to mine. I have pretty good fences.
The parts that suck are that the dirt is very, very wet and they will tear them up.
We could use a week with temperatures in the mid-sixties and sunshine.
The weather guessers tell us rain off-and-on for the next three days and then temps back into the 40s for the week after that. Not optimal for getting the grass to start growing.
Bonus pictures
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| Black Locust with day lilies starting to sprout |
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| This looks like an Eastern Filbert Blight lesion on a hazelnut bush. |
Note: I dropped my phone and cracked the lens cover. Pictures will be less common while I figure out how I want to handle the issue.
Oh. I thought it was a female hazelnut. ---ken
ReplyDeleteERJ, fortunately the Pastures are on a hill in our case so as long as the weather is not too wet and they stay away from the bottom with the vernal stream (and mud), we are doing okay.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they see green grass, they're going to make a break for it!
ReplyDeleteFine lookin heifers.
ReplyDeleteOne of our calves decided the grass looked greener on the other side and decided to have a meal at the neighbor's property. Our fence had been damaged from a fallen tree and calf found a way through the fence through the wire, the little shit.
ReplyDeleteThe neighbors fence isn't designed for containing cattle, a mere chain link fence so we have to move fast.