Upgrading two pastures….

….by adding all-weather water points.  These non-freeze waterers (if there is such a word) will give us greater flexibility to move our herd around.  Neighbor Herman Harlow is at the controls of the back hoe and I’m imitating a highway construction crew.

Herman has done a lot of site work for us over the years and I’m always fascinated by how precisely he can maneuver that big claw.  Even more amazing is how he can level the bottom of a deep hole from his perch in the back hoe.  I used to check with a level but no more.

After a good freeze, the nutritional value of our fescue grass actually improves.  But the cows won’t travel that far from their usual water supplies and leave their calves behind.  Or if they do, they forgot where they put the calves.  Unlike children, calves “stay put” where momma told them to hide.  They’re hard to find and harder to reunite.

So we’ll have healthier grass and healthier cows and calves.  Even healthier.