Cows Are Just The Most Stunning Animals, I Have Some
Ξ May 26th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ About The Life Of Ray Bull, A Great Guy |
I really like cows. They’re so big yet they’re so gentle. In all the time Ive had cows Ive never had a bad moment with them. They aren’t really aggressive at all and they are even tame enough so that my kids can pat them a little bit, though they don’t like being patted too much, they tend to pull back when you pat them. Just pull back a little that’s all.
Now of course it’s winter coming now and the grass is short and won’t grow much and so there isn’t lots of it for the cows to eat you have to feed them hay. I plenty of hay. And that’s the time to pat them.
Now if you’re feeding your hay to your cows then that’s the time to pat them, but it’s also a bit of a drain. You have to feed them every day, each day, without fail. Even if it’s raining you have to feed the cows their hay. If you don’t they starve for the day.
I like to feed the cows myself, but I like holidays too so when I go away I have to make some other arrangements. This is how I do it.
I have a good system. I keep a couple of my paddocks fenced off with the gate closed so that when one has lots of good grass in it I can keep it that way. The cows eat my hay until I have to go away and then I can open the gate and let them in there and they have plenty of food for a week or so and I can go away knowing my cows aren’t starving.
And when I open the gate to the paddock with the grass they’re in there as fast as they can, because they’ve seen all that grass when they look through the gate.
And then I come back from the holiday and my cows are happy. And I take them out of the grass paddock and put them back in the main paddock.
I feed them right after breakfast. They know exactly when I feed them and when I come out to feed they’re sitting right in front of the shed with the hay in it waiting for their breakfast. I usually give them 1 1/2 bales of hay. Sometimes when I feel generous I give them 2 bales.
In fact this morning I gave them 2 bales. But it’s getting warmer soon and the grass is beginning to grow and that’s good because I don’t have a lot of hay left. But that’s ok because I’ve got more grass coming.
And my cows are always happy when the grass is getting longer. And the grass is getting longer now, so my cows are happy. Don’t you just love cows?