They aren't ours, we are keeping them for our neighbors for the time being. But we have livestock in our very own pasture!!! Yea!!!
We have livestock now!!
Cool !
What breed are they? From the pic it looks like two cows and a calf?
V
I have no idea what breed they are..... We "borrowed" them from our neighbors just to nock down the grass in the pasture. We still have to get a couple of goats to eat the daisies and the dandylions. I didn't think to ask what breed they were because I was so exicted to have critters in the pasture...how silly is that?? You are correct in that it is two cows and a calf. "Mama", "baby" and......... "close friend"?....8-P
Nice cows; lovely pasture.
2B not silly at all to me. A pasture is meant to have animals in it, grazing and getting fat. I only have a dog, no pasture, no big territory, but this weekend I am going to play sheperdess! Landlady and family going camping, so I will tend her three sheep. A little taste of having animals to tend and enjoy. I see the pasture from here, and enjoy having them near. When I go anywhere, I look at other people's cattle and horses. They look so fat and sleek in the summer. Just beautiful. Enjoy! BAM
My FIL said he thought they were a cross between black angus and short horn. He said a specific name....."something" gray, but I can't remember what. Now if only our dog would quit barking at them.
Ahhhhh.......cows getting fat in a pasture.....thats a sign of prosperity!
Here's a poem to go with your bucolic meadow:
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). From A Child’s Garden of Verses
The Cow
THE FRIENDLY cow all red and white
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
That's pretty.
We need to add a verse that talks about how they stand at the fence all facing the yard and watch me while I weed the front flower bed. Mooing softly now and then.....I moo back occasionally.
Kinda funny to have an audience.
Cheryl
These cows will probably get to know you.. I talk to my cows a lot.. My therapy I suppose , when I come home from my payin' job.. They are always glad to see me.
How big is your pasture?
It's about 2.5 acres. We have just over 4 acres total and the house and garden is on about 1.5 acres.
Hey! I can do math! 8-P
We are right on a small creek so in the winter part of our land is under water depending on how much rain we get.
My husband used to live next door to some cows when he was a kid. He says they watched everything he did. They were facinated when he and his brother used to play on the trampoline. :) I guess it is probably pretty dull in the field after a while. It is unnerving to turn around and see everyone really close and staring at you if you aren't used to it. Aren't they funny?
They crack me up...yesterday, I was pulling some weeds and when the garden trailer got full, I dumped them in the brush pile in the middle of the pasture. The cows didn't seem to care about it so I didn't think anything about it. That is until I tried to go back out through the gate. Picture me on the lawn mower pulling the garden trailer, three cows following very close behind and the dog on the other side of the gate wanting more than anything to get into the pasture. All I could do was sit there and holler for my husband to come help. It reminded me of that riddle about the farmer, the chicken, the grain and the fox trying to cross a river.....lol!
Nice picture. We have some cows on a pasture that runs adjacent to a railroad track turned into a bike trail. Sometimes, we'll be in the pasture checking cows, cutting thistles, etc. and we hear the bike riders mooing to the cows (obviously don't see us). We would love to somehow pretend to be a cow an talk back, but then that would be mean?
I think it would be hilarious!
Got2, I'm stalking you! LOL You need to show what you have in your field now. And you need to share the story of how we got the cows trailored when the owner couldn't do it! ;o)
You could tell the story---- ok I will. 8-P
I can't even remember what time of year the owner (Mike) came over to pick up them up...but they didn't want to have anything to do with him. He, his kids and my father-in-law worked for about an hour trying to coax them into the trailer. They ended up getting the two younger ones trailered but that left mama in the field alone and he knew that she wouldn't stay there without her youngest. He ended up taking the "close friend"/yearling and the baby over to his place, dropping off the yearling and bringing the baby back. He left the trailer backed up to the gate and put out some grain for mama but gave up and went home. mgh and I thought we could do it so we grabbed a couple of handfuls of weeds (mostly mint from what I remember) from the flower bed and she slowly followed me right into the trailer. I ducked out the man-door at the front of the trailer as mgh swung the trailer gate closed. I caught it on the other side and latched it. Took us about 10 minutes.
I think they got spoiled with all of the weeds I'd been feeding them.
Here is what's in there now.
I don't know their names but I call them Big Girl, Little Girl and The Boy/Puppy(the brown one). The neighbors kids come over everyday and take the girls back home to ride them in their pasture. The Boy, or Puppy as I call him most of the time, just freaks out when he is left by himself. Raising a ruckus and running up and down the fence line like his tail is on fire. Turns out one of the girls is his mom and he thinks he is still a baby. He is funny though...when I fill up the water trough, he plays in the water. He wiggles his lips in the water stream as it is coming out of the hose and once he stuck the thing up his nose. What a puppy! He likes to play "king of the water" with the other horses. Whenever they come near it he chases them away.
edited because I can't spell.
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Boy , did I ever goof! Im at my Parents again( they are doing great ,by the way) and they live on a beautiful pond next to my Uncles Pasture full of Cows, and I didnt bring my camera! It is so pretty here too. You all would have enjoyed the scenery, espescially the little calves that were just born! they are the cutest things! some new breed, Im told! solid black with a white stripe running the length of their backs , like a skunk!!!! Tooo pretty and funny at the same time!
I just love all the stories this morning!