WHEN THE COWS COME HOME – BUT YOU DON’T HAVE ANY
Some days, you never know what you are going to wake up to.
The other morning, the cows came home… but we don’t have any cows.
So, some mornings I sleep in a little. It’s nice and I enjoy it. After spending so much of my life waking up between 2 and 6 am, a little extra sleep on days I can afford it is great. If our @little-peppers beat me up (that’s wake up first not physically abuse me) they will frequently get the chores started.
When they went out to check on the animals, they found some extra animals. A few large cows were in the yard, eating grass and dropping cowpies.
Judging from the large cowpie right in the middle of my “garden” at least one took a stroll in there too. Thankfully my garden is haphazard enough this year that they apparently didn’t touch much. With this news to share the @little-peppers came running right back in the house to let us know that there were cows in the yard.
This has happened before, and was not exactly a strange event for us. Perhaps if a few large bovine were standing in your yard when you woke up it may be a bigger deal, but maybe not. I went out and checked on them, and we let the neighbors know. Soon, we rounded them up and put them back in the fence. The whole ordeal only lasted a few minutes, and other than stepping in a cowpie, nothing bad really happened.
THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
The situation does remind me of some advice that homesteaders often give. The advice is to invest in some good fencing. If you put up some fencing that will actually keep your animals in, you will be able to avoid wasting a lot of time chasing stray animals around the area.
Both @bluerthangreen and @papa-pepper are planning on making sure that our fences are in order. We both plan on fencing in our entire properties and then having specific places for specific animals inside of that perimeter fence. If they get out of "their area" then they will still be fenced in on our property. Not only will that save the neighbors some trouble, but we will spend a lot less time tracking them down. One step at a time.
I'm heading back down to the land in a minute to work on clearing stumps some more so I can get in some road base and my shipping container soon, but I'll check back later to reply to more comments. Thanks everyone!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-cows
Until next time…
Don’t waste your time online, invest it with steemit.com
Hello @papa-pepper. I translated this post in Russian. Translation here:
https://steemit.com/life/@igor-steem/kogda-k-tebe-domoi-prikhodyat-korovy-a-ty-ne-fermer . Thank you! Investments in the fence can result in losses for buying mineral fertilizers. Be carefully!
Good translation @igor-steem ! I liked the post, the cows and even the cowpies :-)
It seems to me that @papa-pepper does not like cows and pies. @papa-pepper likes pepper!
I would take them to the butcher tight away. No fense, more beef with pepper. Right, @papa-pepper?
I think so too.
I can argue. @papa-pepper likes snakes, too.
There is a saying that luck comes when you step on a shit in Korean proverb : )
Back on the farm, our cows and our neighbor's cows took turns getting out and into the others corn fields. For some reason, they never went into their owner's fields, just the neighbors. Far more early morning roundups than should have been necessary. Good times.
i guess the corn is always sweeter on the other side ;) hahaha!
Lol, good times!
I feel your pain @papa-pepper, I told you of my visitors The wandering Thanksgiving day Donkey and the herd of cattle. Even had a bull on my back porch one day. There have been many other visitors roll down my dirt road which include but are not limited too, hundreds of dogs, a pot bellied pig, a pigmy goat and to top it off an Emu!
Always something fun out in the middle of nowhere!
Keep those great posts coming!
Your pictures are amazing. Cows play a vital role in our daily life @papa-pepper. Without them no milk, meat and other derivative products from them for our consumption. So we have to protect them and give them all the love they deserve from us.
We enjoy seeing them around, and may even get one of our own one day.
Oh no! I'll have to remember that!
Let the sharks free range and keep the cows in the pen. Thanks!
In planning for my own homestead (that I'll never have) I too thought about fencing. Fencing is expensive and take a lot of work to put in and maintain. And then the cows go and rub themselves on it and push it over. (and they will lick the paintwork off your car too!)
So how about having an organic fence? String up blackberry etc on a lattice using the trees that are already there for supports. you get really nice barrier, especially if to make it several feet wide, that no-one will want to cross, and you also get berries for your icecream. :-)
It might take a couple of years for it to be fully established, but once it is there it will just keep on getting higher and thicker, and more full of berries.
Just a thought.
Great idea @trevor.george, don't use gorse though....it's horrible OR barberry...they are the curse of the NZ countryside. Berries are all good :)
or boxthorn!!! Those things will go right through the sole of your boot!
I spent a bunch of time on my aunt's farm when I was a kid ripping out boxthorn hedges.
Nasty stuff!
That was an udderly mooving post.
:-)
I couldn't resist.
Hahaha! The cowpies will be great for the plants mate!
Cheers
@progressivechef
cow is a very usefull animal.we all should understand this...
I think so too. They are very useful!