Moved the cows this afternooon

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So we moved the cows from the front pasture to the upstream pasture. There is 100 cows, 80 fall calves, and 14 young spring calves. The only issue was as you come out the gate on to the driveway the cows need to take a hard left and cross the bridge. It appeared that the lead cows didn't want to cross the bridge. So we had cows going up the hill to the county road. We had cows taking a left and headed out the driveway. We had cows turning back and running into the field. We even had some calves who were late comers to the bridge running across it. Of course they decided they were in the wrong place and ran back. Twenty minutes later 2 cowboys horseback, 2 on quads, and 4 dogs we had all the cows where they were supposed to go. Just as I came down off the road with the last cows in front of me there was a semi load of hay coming up the road. I am sure glad it wasn't 10 minutes sooner. Plan A started good. We ended up with the results of plan A. But in the middle we had 20 minutes of mass confusion and panic.
 
One of the good ones in the middle of this Bert and I were both on the road. I had cows coming up the hill off the driveway and crossing in front of me. They headed up the road toward Bert and were pushing back down the hill to the driveway. I think some of them made that circle twice. The whole time we are sitting in the middle of the road on a blind corner. Trevor was finally able to get into position on the driveway to keep them from coming up the hill. Then I pushed then to Bert who was horse back. He followed them down the hill. This was when they finally crossed the bridge. I had to go back to the driveway as I was on a quad. One more short lived mess as they balled up in the driveway until one finally saw the 20 foot wide opening between the shop and the barn. But they circled there long enough to leave plenty of calling cards on the ground. We will be watching our step walking across that area for a couple weeks until it all gets dry.
 

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