Cattle out of yard

I knew the cattle wouldn't be in the yard for long this time, but it was a bit shorter than expected.  This morning when I walked out to move the irrigation pipes most of the cattle followed me into the corral.  I got mooing from them like they wanted a new place to go.  They had eaten much of the yard grass but there was still a little left to eat.  I had planned on driving to get groceries later and would have moved the cattle out the yard at that time.  But since you are 'self-deporting' yourselves from the yard now I will close the gate. Less effort for me now than if I waited later.  Two cows were still eating in the yard and I left them be for now.  I moved them later when it was time for me to go uptown.

The cattle of course had tested their limits when they were in the yard overnight.  They had taken off one of the rain gutter downspouts and flattened part of it.  Here is one part of the gutter.

For one of the hazelnuts bushes they had tipped/removed the protection from the bush and ate a lot of the bush.  I had several metal stakes holding the wire cage in place.  I had removed the stakes before I thought of taking the photo.

Here are the other two hazelnut bushes.  These cages held in place.

The wire fence held in place and protected the walnut trees.  Last year the wire fence for the small walnut tree didn't hold and much of that tree was eaten by the cattle.  It is good that this tree is coming back.

The first photo was taken in early July.  I had trimmed part of the tree before putting the wire fence around it.

The larger walnut tree.

My stack of logs to be split later got partially knocked over by the cattle.

In the afternoon after I got back from the grocery store I let the cattle into the part of the corral they hadn't been in since Spring.  The grass had really grown and it was time for a trim.