Hay Season Over for the Year

We have completed our hay season for this year. The equipment has been cleaned and stored away. The hay has all been stacked in the barns, and the cows are now allowed back into all the fields to forage in the large areas.

Since we do not irrigate our grass, we only have one cutting of hay. The rest of the time the land is used for grazing the main herd.

Usually, after cutting the hay off, the grass will regrow. This year with little ground moisture, the hay fields look as if it is late August, dry and brown.  We supplement the herd with a bale or two of hay each day as they forage, just to make sure that no one goes hungry.

The herd sire had been away from the main herd and was spending the last 66 days with the show animals. It was so much easier moving the herd around as we were working the hay fields. The bully just slows the process down, not that he is mean, but he just wants to be in charge and doesn’t always agree with our plans.

Since hay season is over, we loaded the herd sire into the stock trailer and moved him across the road and river to the main herd. He is once again king of his domain and watching over his batch of mothers and their babies.