Why is it, that things never go as expected, but we still expect them to??
I don't think that I mentioned it before but Jeff, the owner of Maddie & Gretta, was in a
terrible motorcycle accident just days after bringing them over. There is really no reason that he survived - but he
is recovering well and will be having some of the rods and such taken out soon. Anyway - all of that means that I've been on my own with fencing and care of the girls.
In April I expanded the pasture again. Everything went well for a few days. And then Gretta started getting out. One cow out isn't a problem. She's not going anywhere by herself. As long as the other 2 don't seem to care that she's doing it - and she's not tearing down fence lines - its a problem that can wait till the weekend. However, that was NOT the case last week.
I got a call from my renter about 8:00 saying that one was out. No problem, just keep an eye out and let me know if anything changes.
I got a call at 11:00 from my Dad saying that the mooing was driving him nuts so he came up to see what was going on and there is only 1 cow in the pasture.
I asked him to drive around to the neighbors and see if he could spot them. They were in the yard of the folks who's land backs up to mine. So.. once the cow's were located, he decided that had some errands to run and left - with me unable to get home again for about another hour...
In the mean time I've called Jeff and left a message of what was going on. He said that he would try to get out there in the afternoon to help me figure out what went wrong.
Well, when I got home - Eva was in the pasture in a near panic because her buddies were NOT. But, thank goodness, they had returned to the woods JUST outside the fence so getting them back in was not hard.
I got them locked up in the barn, texted Jeff that they were safe, and started running the fence line.
Skipping all the fencing details.... it turns out that when I re-configured the fence line, I set it up to shut off power to the ENTIRE PASTURE when I opened the new gate....
A couple of under-gate wires and a new ground connection and we are GOOD to go.
Here's some picts from the first day in the 'new' field.
Maddie (purple) & Gretta (red) dragging their 'catch' lines
fat little Eva
Why would ANYONE want out of this lovely pasture???? Ungrateful little brats....
We're getting there.
