The second cutting is not as tall as the first cutting. I had thought it would only take me a little over a day to cut the hay. Wrong. The hay is thick and the plants are full of moisture inside them. I drove in the slowest speed to cut the area I last irrigated as in some spots it was still a little moist. Otherwise I could only really drive in the second slowest speed; not the third lowest as I had expected I could.
I think I had started around the same time of the day as I did when I made first cutting last month, but I have to move irrigation pipe in the evening, and it gets dark earlier now. So I had to quit cutting at 7:30 pm instead of 10 pm. Two and one half hours less of cutting. Still, I think I was able to cut more hay this time. I cut somewhere between a third to half of the field. So I may not finish until Sunday.
The cattle were taking a siesta for a few hours as I cut.
The black cow and the red cow are both licking salt blocks. The pipe is the third irrigation sprinkler line. In the evening when I went to move irrigation pipes I noticed the wooden salt feeder was flipped over and the salt blocks were under the feeder. I don't know why the cows like to flip the feeder over. They don't want to share the salt with the other cows?
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