Completion of the new fencing was another step toward the goal of becoming cattle ranchers. I think there might be some kind of cow and acreage numbers where you actually become "cattle ranchers." Since I don't know what those numbers are, I guess we're cattle ranchers (some term that describes extremely small numbers of both would be more accurate??) Anyways, this bit of fencing has been completed. The guy who rents the rest of our pasture was allowed to run his cows in this new area so the old hay grazer plants would be eaten down. We've had the area shredded once and we mowed once. It took the big tractor with the large shredder about 20 minutes and us 10+ hours mowing once. Still the old hay grazer was continuing to grow back and take over; so we thought the cows might enjoy something different.
It was good to see that it took the cows longer to eat the hay grazer down than it took us to mow it! I enjoyed seeing the calves up close too.
There is always a down side... Red, the bull, decided to show off in front of the girls and knocked down our protein feeder. It didn't have any food in it; he was just showing off his muscles for the girls. Red has been doing the same thing where we have the deer feeder set up. It is getting old!
We've spent our weekends lately spraying brush and mesquite. The mesquite seems to continue to out pace our attempts to kill it! What a hardy tree!
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