This time of year is what husband calls our “growing season.” We have winter rye grass growing in several pastures and the cattle are all separated in different groups. Some are on the rye grass full time. Those cattle will eat and grow all winter long. But most of the cattle groups are let into the winter pastures for a few hours everyday. The cattle stand and wait for the single strand of hot wire to be let down and then they walk, bolt, kick and play their way into the green pastures.
Long about lunch time, if husband hasn’t already let the cattle in, I can hear the moos and bellowing inside the house. They begin to call mid morning; they are waiting for the farmer to come open the hot wire gap and allow them to graze. They are hungry!
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