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Went checking on cows today as it was a little cooler - Only got to 84 at the north place-- took the cows some mineral and found two of the neighbors bulls in my pasture, so had to get them back with their own girls first...Then this time I actually remembered to take the camera with me as I went down the creek to check out the girls and mineral....
Cows are really hanging around the water holes and creek during the day..The creek is full of spring fed holes like this, which I hope will hold up for the summer or we will have to pump.....
3 of the old mares hanging around a water hole with the cows- These 3 stay with the cows a lot rather than going with other horses- true "cow horses"...
A little bull resting while the girls graze- probably pooped from fighting with the neighbors bulls...I think he was thanking me for getting rid of those ugly old red baldy bulls that were trying to move in on his territory...
Heat and having to walk for water doesn't seem to be hurting the cows any yet...This is the old gal that I wrote earlier about that apparently slipped by me for a few years...She has an 8 branded on her hip and I know she isn't 8 years old :roll: Not bad for that age raising a calf- wish I had a 100 like her...
Another bunch of cows down the creek around another water hole...
These gals don't seem too stressed either...
One of my objectives- Took this for Faster Horses :lol: I put out the last bags of Vigortone I had and this tub could have used more- will have to call Roger again as the cows are starting to hit it a lot harder...
The reason the cows are hanging on the creeks--water holes in the center of the pasture are dry- one spring on the east side is still trickling a little, but has sure slowed down...
What the cows have to look forward to as soon as we get thru combining-IF we combine...Dryland hayfields were so bad and pastures going downhill so fast that we didn't cut the hay and will graze it along with the stubble fields....
Cows are really hanging around the water holes and creek during the day..The creek is full of spring fed holes like this, which I hope will hold up for the summer or we will have to pump.....
3 of the old mares hanging around a water hole with the cows- These 3 stay with the cows a lot rather than going with other horses- true "cow horses"...
A little bull resting while the girls graze- probably pooped from fighting with the neighbors bulls...I think he was thanking me for getting rid of those ugly old red baldy bulls that were trying to move in on his territory...
Heat and having to walk for water doesn't seem to be hurting the cows any yet...This is the old gal that I wrote earlier about that apparently slipped by me for a few years...She has an 8 branded on her hip and I know she isn't 8 years old :roll: Not bad for that age raising a calf- wish I had a 100 like her...
Another bunch of cows down the creek around another water hole...
These gals don't seem too stressed either...
One of my objectives- Took this for Faster Horses :lol: I put out the last bags of Vigortone I had and this tub could have used more- will have to call Roger again as the cows are starting to hit it a lot harder...
The reason the cows are hanging on the creeks--water holes in the center of the pasture are dry- one spring on the east side is still trickling a little, but has sure slowed down...
What the cows have to look forward to as soon as we get thru combining-IF we combine...Dryland hayfields were so bad and pastures going downhill so fast that we didn't cut the hay and will graze it along with the stubble fields....