Warming

It was 30 deegrees when I walked out about 6 to plug in the tractor. Yesterday I dug to the last stack yard of hay I hadn’t gotten to yet. Then in the afternoon when I hauled the trash out I could see yearling’s scattered and grazing. I will need to get hay in to replace what I have been feeding and what I will feed. But I’ve got some fairly close by that I can buy and a neighbor who will truck it in. And now the weather is supposed to warm up and into the 40’s and 50’s. I hope it melts all the snow off the flats and close to bare ground where the wind wipped it off, mostly. Most people don’t know that the wind is what made this cow country. The winds blow the snow to the southeast sides of the hills and leave the northwest sides almost bare. Thus there is little to no snow on top of the grass so the cattle could graze. And if you don’t pamper your cattle and make them dig for their dinner, they will. As soon as you start feeding them all the hay they need, they are content to strand around and beller at you to come feed them

Odd, we humans are so much like cattle! Or is it that cattle can be forced to act like humans?!

I love it when it warms up. Sorting the steers from the heifers in the coming slop will sure be fun!