SageHill Ranch Journal

If I have sheep in the front field, I have to rig up a cross over the driveway, with the gates, cow panels, enticement with feed and try to convince them that it is much more fun across the driveway. They all know that the driveway is actually a wide snake that eats sheep and is very dangerous. Get the group almost there and one turns back, they they all turn back and bedlam ensues. Yep, you have my sympathy, but you still got the victory trophy!
 
One of our rented places is divided into 3 sections... to go from the orchard section, right side of driveway going up the hill, to the back hill is just through a gate ; still on the right side of the driveway and down behind their barn/garage....... to go from the back hill to the front hill, they have to cross the paved driveway... there is always one or 2 that won't walk on that "cow eating black pavement"... we put hay across it so they can walk/eat their way across... just some loose hay to get them to not "see" that expanse of black , all of 10 ft if that...... but it might just grab them and hurt them to walk across it... watching the calves is even funnier.. but they usually want momma enough... and there are usually a couple... so they just take a deep breath and close their eyes and jump/run whatever... across it..
Thank goodness we have "mostly" cows with common sense...;):lol::bow:bow
 
Everyone disses goats, but we didn't have that much trouble keeping our goats in. We kept dairy goats and Boers. We had 100 when we sold out. They were dairy does, dry yearlings and kids and we also kept about 5 bucks. On test so milked every day, kids started on pasteurized bottles and transferred to nipple buckets, weaned at 3 months. Buck kids sold at 6-8 weeks at auction. Maybe they didn't want to escape since they were fed alfalfa and there was limited grazing around. We had a pony who waited until he felt the charge from the battery hot wire start to wane (around 2 am) then would knock it down and take all the horses with him on a search for hay/grain. Big Mama (a small Dorset ewe was walked to fenced pasture grass every day and at 4 monthe dot would leave the pasture leading her small flock through the fence somehow, across the neighboring pasture, and back to the barn for their evening alfalfa meal. We even had a horse that could open corral gates wth his lips and would let his buddies out to play!
All livestock signs a contract shortly after birth swearing to make their owners crazy.
farmerjan said:
Thank goodness we have "mostly" cows with common sense...;):lol:
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Does any livestock have "common sense"? If so,I need to find them and buy one!
:gig
 
It rained yesterday. Enough to get into the rain gauge :lol:
Doesn't even count as .05 inches #rain2026

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