Off to summer camp….

….that’s what Wooz tells our yearling heifers reassuringly as we load them on the trailer for the short trip to a neighbor’s farm.  Lindsay Sagstuen and John Dibble have generously shared their grass with us for several years now.

Of course, we think Ruby Red lawn mowers look a lot better than John Deere green.  And now that their neighbors, Don and Sue Ferro, have also granted us “grazing rights”  we can add a few more heifers to this “loan-a-cow program” and get more effective use of the grass.

A side benefit we have found is that both couples love the animals so much that not only do they thrive but, with all the attention and all the guests, these heifers are always the most socialized cows in our herd.  They return to our farm in the fall for breeding.