Thursday, November 21, 2024

Cows and mats

Tomorrow I will have to put out another large hay bale for the cows.  They love to eat the hay.  And some like to step in the feeder with their front legs.



Here is one of heifer calves I am keeping.



Of course hauling cattle, even for a short distance, means manure gets left on the mats in the stock trailer.  Since I only had Fritz I kept him in the back half of the trailer.  Only two mats got messed up - other than a little touch of manure on the end of the front mats.  I left those in the trailer.  These messier mats I took out and left by the water trough.  Too cold to use my pressure washer to clean them. Yesterday snow and cold.  I didn't do anything with the mats.  Today it was slightly warmer and above freezing.  So I cleaned the mats off with buckets of water and hung them to dry.   It is raining tonight and predicted rain and snow tomorrow.  I'll see if they get somewhat dry so I can place them back in the stock trailer.

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