Skinny Cows
On 14 August I brought my cows and calves down to the front paddocks so the neighbours could take their bull, three cows and a calf back to their property. Unfortunately, I could not get Chrissy to join the others and so had to leave her with the neighbours cows. Then in the afternoon I had another try and this time Freda ended up joining her. When the neighbours rounded up their cows they very kindly managed to get both Freda and Chrissy to join the rest of my herd. However, on rounding my cows up and on having them closer at hand I noticed that they were very skinny. I had not visited them for a while because of the presence of the bull and I had not noticed how skinny they were before this. So I bought some mineral blocks and lucerne hay and I think they are gradually looking better, especially Brownie who looked worse than ever before. I guess this is becuase the cows are most probably pregnant again and they also have a 6-8 month old calf still feeding from them. I bought some more lucerne on Friday and so will feed them every second day for a while longer. They are down the back paddock again and I'm sure the grass will improve with warmer weather. I have included two photos of the cows and calves milling on the other side of the fence around feeding time in the early morning.