Yesterday we expend the full sidereal day creating a corridor between two grazing land expanse , sending our Bos taurus from the well - eat up 4 acres or so they ’d been on into a new 2 - acre area they have n’t grazed yet .
trouble : the two pastures are not connect , so we had two choices .
A : Send the cows across the unfenced lawn to the other pastureland and hope they do n’t run off , or :
bacillus : Make a corridor through a objet d’art of forest that connects the two pastures .
We chose B , as Rachel was really afraid they might make a campaign for it .
To do so , we turn off the galvanic fencing and unhooked the wires , taking them down to the ground . Then we find the clearest path we could find , and curve down brush and small trees to make it nice and well-defined . Once that was done , we trim back bamboo and popcorn trees and nail down them to trees to block both side of the 150′ sloped trial from pasture # 1 to crop # 2 . We used a compounding of those railings along with piles of brush and stick to create walls along the cleared path , then lured the moo-cow through . We let out the heifer we ’d been weaning as well , so she could join the other cows .
It was crazy ! The cow go galloping after me as I have the feed bucketful in a near stampede , and the minor and Rachel went behind them so they would keep run forward . Once they entered the 2nd pasturage , I let them have the provender , then we race back and re - hooked up the electric lines we ’d dropped and turned the fence back on .
After that , we pass the next few hours creating a new milk country to the back of the ramshackle garage structure next to that pasture . That required moving a bunch of junk get out by previous homeowner , plus putting up a laughingstock panel and t - post enclosure that led the cows to the fresh milking expanse through the pasture gate .
The area where Rachel now milk them used to be a chicken coop make as a ill - built tilt - to . We got two lights working in there and put in a head logic gate , and rend down all the former framing and Gallus gallus wire there , wee it an undetermined , dry area for milk .
We finished the work in the night and Rachel called in and milked the cows successfully . They were tentative , but should get used to it soon .
Today , as cloggy rainwater were coming , we got up in the forenoon and over - sowed the older pasture with a admixture of winter peas , wintertime rye grass , grain rye whiskey , oat , red and white clover and daikons . I had one of my sons mix pail of cum together , then I threw it all by hand the old - fashioned way of life . After that , I used our zero - turn mower to pull a retarding force harrow ( itlooks like this one ) over the pasture to knock down and spread the manure and pressure seed into the ground through the existing grass . After that , I mowed the weed to shred and bedevil around fall leaves and fallen cutting so the seeds would have a little cover .
Now it ’s raining – and in a few week , we ’ll see how it all grows !
UPDATE:
See the picture I just post on this physical process :
