It was one of those nights. At 1:30 wife says "John I just saw a cow walk across the back yard". I don't know what caused them to break out.
She had just woke up kinda sudden like, prolly cuz she heard cattle bawling. Yup, the cows were mostly trailing down the road or splitting off into our calving pasture which is quite well fenced except for around the new barn and has a good regrowth.
The bunch that went down the road headed into the neighbour's hay field and headed back home when I gave a few yips at them. They know they belong at home.
So, we got them back into the calving pasture and I had to re-run a couple hundred feet of electric wire that had been taken down to build the barn.
Fortunately, we had pounded the posts in earlier this week and all I had to do was run the wire and clip it into the insulators which my son had stapled on right after we put the posts in.
It was a beautiful night to be outside - fairly bright moon and very still. No frost. No traffic, so thank goodness, no accidents.
So at three in the morning I headed back into the house, cattle back in, fencing done!
Coulda been a whole lot worse so life is good.
She had just woke up kinda sudden like, prolly cuz she heard cattle bawling. Yup, the cows were mostly trailing down the road or splitting off into our calving pasture which is quite well fenced except for around the new barn and has a good regrowth.
The bunch that went down the road headed into the neighbour's hay field and headed back home when I gave a few yips at them. They know they belong at home.
So, we got them back into the calving pasture and I had to re-run a couple hundred feet of electric wire that had been taken down to build the barn.
Fortunately, we had pounded the posts in earlier this week and all I had to do was run the wire and clip it into the insulators which my son had stapled on right after we put the posts in.
It was a beautiful night to be outside - fairly bright moon and very still. No frost. No traffic, so thank goodness, no accidents.
So at three in the morning I headed back into the house, cattle back in, fencing done!
Coulda been a whole lot worse so life is good.