The Daily Bath With Love

The calves are growing like weeds. There is a lot of romping, jumping and running going on in the fields as the calves learn more about their surroundings. The bunch up in gangs looking for ways to entertain themselves as their mothers begin to give them their space and time separated from each other while still being a part of the main herd.

At this age the bulls and heifers cavort in loosely knit groups but before long the bull calves with stick with more predominately groups with more bulls leaving the heifers to make their own tribe. But the calves come back to their mothers several times during their play to reconnect, get a meal of milk, and hopefully a good licking bath before they take off again in search of new adventures.

We have the main herd moved back across the river to the far, far field but this time we have fenced the hay field perimeter and the herd is only allowed to graze in the small upper field, under the fir trees and around the outside of the twenty six acre field fence. We are hoping to harvest this field first since it is the most difficult to access, hardest to mow, and the field that dries out first once the warm June days bake the dirt.

The new calves learned early about electric fences and the temporary fence around the hayfield is keeping them and the rest of the herd a respectable distance away from the growing grass.

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