This past Sunday we moved about 130 cow/calf pairs and 4 bulls home from their summer pasture. They had been out on the Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge for the summer. It is a beautiful location which I had never visited before.
The cattle were happy in their pasture. Here a few are resting before we put them in the working corral. This pasture had our black cows with their calves (most of them whitish, some black). Our black cows are bred by Charolais bulls. Charolais bulls are white. The calves grow up to be great feeder calves and then beef for you!
This is the working corral that we rented. We could move the panels around to make one huge pen or two pens of varying size. We had two pens plus the built-in alley way. One pen was smaller so we could load the trailers and the other, larger, pen kept us well stocked (no pun intended) with more cattle to load.
On the drive to their new pasture, I saw these two adult moose. The photo is not great as it was with my cell phone but I just had to share! These moose were only about three miles from our place. Some trips when I went past they were laying down in this soy bean field.
This was the view out my window. (Before you discipline me for taking photos while driving you need to know I have already gotten a tongue lashing from our 22 year old son.) In this photo you can see a cow nose peeking out of the trailer (sometimes it was an ear), the oil wells that are now plentiful just west of us and the green grass. Green grass is rare this time of year.
Then there was this crazy thing. A couple of weeks ago C&P were out checking cattle along with her parents and saw this sheep in with our cattle. It is not ours. We think he was a stray and was just happy to find company as he has been with our cattle ever since. Poor guy has not been sheered in a few years. We'd like to find the rightful owner, but in the meantime we have a woolly cow!
Love the "wooly" cow.
ReplyDeleteYes, that crazy 'cow' now lives in the feedlot!
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