regolith
Well-known member
With milking and loading out weaner bulls both scheduled first thing in the morning I thought I was going to get an early start to the rest of the day's tasks and get a few more things done...
That's not how farming goes. Got some cleaning up and fixing up to do before we can get on with milking.
But the boys are safely gone.
I hate saying a thing to truckers about the prodder use but sometimes it's of less use than you'd think... My cattle never encounter such a thing on the farm and usually seem to freeze, confused, if it's used when loading, this morning it prompted several of the weaners to turn round and try to get out of the loading race... and the milkers to panic in response to what the calves were doing.
Of course if the milkers had got up promptly and left their paddock in the dark like they were told to, they wouldn't have been there to see it.
That's not how farming goes. Got some cleaning up and fixing up to do before we can get on with milking.
But the boys are safely gone.
I hate saying a thing to truckers about the prodder use but sometimes it's of less use than you'd think... My cattle never encounter such a thing on the farm and usually seem to freeze, confused, if it's used when loading, this morning it prompted several of the weaners to turn round and try to get out of the loading race... and the milkers to panic in response to what the calves were doing.
Of course if the milkers had got up promptly and left their paddock in the dark like they were told to, they wouldn't have been there to see it.
