The cows came back to the sheep pasture today after 6 weeks. Since late August, the cows have been on a counter clockwise trip around the farm grazing on hay fields, starting at the back ridge and working over to the bowl. Then after eating hay in the bowl until the first good freeze, they went back around in a clockwise direction until they came back to the sheep pasture today. The did surprisingly well on the trip back, especially on the back ridge where they grazed for 4 days compared to 8 days back in September. Some rainy days helped make the grass more palatable.
There is some beautiful bluegrass in the wild apple orchard west of the driveway now as you can see in the following photo taken looking northeast towards the driveway. We hope the grass will stop the erosion from the draw that runs through there. Also, the cows should keep back the prickly ash and sumac under the power line. The electric co-op wants the brush kept clear if we don't want them spraying herbicides.
There is some good orchard grass in the sheep pasture. Hopefully the cold weather is
suppressing the parasites.
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