Cold and cattle

This morning the cattle were standing outside the corral.  They didn't eat all of the large hay bale already, did they?

I let the cattle into the corral and fed them several small hay bales.  I went out and checked and there still was a days worth of hay in the metal feeder.  While it was sunny, the temperature was in the teens and the wind was blowing hard.  It was cold. It felt like North Dakota or Minnesota in the Winter.  The cattle wanted into the corral and to the loafing shed.  Even just outside the corral it was more out of the wind than where the metal feeder sits.

The cattle stayed in the corral all day.  When not eating they laid in the loafing shed.  I fed them hay several more times, the last time being a half hour ago.

Before letting the cattle into the corral I spread some straw in the loafing shed for them to lay on.  It would have been easier to move and spread the straw if the cattle hadn't gotten into the straw earlier this Fall and broke a lot of bales apart.

This is Panda.  She was the cow that got out over to the neighbor's place a few weeks ago.