Fun fact: This blog is now five years old. I first posted on 21 January 2012. 145 posts and a name change later, it’s still here!
It amazes me the amount of people who own/work with cattle, and yet are clueless about how to handle them. From the farmworker two farms ago who had zero patience with cows and so terrified them with his roughness and loudness, to the neighbour whose Hereford steer broke through a fence into our calf paddock the other day because he was scared and alone and being chased too hard by a motorbike. There is a fine line between too gentle and too rough with semi-tamed and mostly wild cattle, and hardly anyone seems to know where it is. Too gentle and they ignore you, too rough and they panic.
After last week’s pleasant coolness, we had a weekend heatwave. Today it was forecasted to be 30. Well, it had already hit 32 by 10am and I was soaked with sweat feeding out hay and silage to the cows even with the air-conditioning in the tractor. The temperature is finally dropping now as the rain arrives, and a cool breeze is coming in my window, carrying the beautiful smell of rain on hot ground.
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