My husband put the cows in the field that we call "the Calf Pasture." As it is the only pasture surrounded by four wires of electrified fencing. He only expected them to be in there for a couple of hours as there didn't appear to be that much grass in there.
Boy were we wrong! At 11:00 AM I texted Danny, who was helping his dad that morning, and told him, "Don't hurry back, the cows still have piles of grass." And they did! Danny said that the pasture had about 90% clover and 10% fescue and bluegrass. Even when we took them out to milk there was still some uneaten grass in there. I looked at Danny and said, "if only all of our pastures produced like this one..." But for the most part we give the cows about 3 acres of grass for a 12 hour period, and right now we give them some supplemental hay to help it last until the next milking. We are on shale ground, so the fertility isn't the greatest and we are only ever ten days away from a drought. Meaning that if we don't get rain or precipitation for 10 days, the land already has a look of a drought to it, because the shale allows the soil to drain very quickly.
Here are some pictures of our cows enjoying the calf pasture.
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| 701 - a Milking Shorthorn/Holstein Cross |
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| 1005 - Jersey/Holstein Cross. Her sire is Kiwi Cross Northsea 190XD2 |
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| 757 - Jersey/Holstein Cross |
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| Everyone's favorite cow, Tubby! (an Ayrshire/Normande Cross - she is a NZ Ayrshire Challenge granddaughter) |
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| One last picture of 160 cows on one acre. |
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Blessings to you all in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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