March

Scenes from March

050318 horses.jpg Grazing
050320 path A path where once there was none.
050320 cows Resting

The path clearance was along the outside of the eastern edge of "compartment 10" (below The Churchillian).
We created a new path outside a field that now has cattle, to offer an alternative route. A number of people passed through as we worked, commenting that they had "never known this path existed before".
Very true - it didn't :-)
It was cleared by the "sunday team", who are more accustomed to felling.

Another calf - 25th March

Rounded up to return to a barn in the farm

050325 calf 01 050325%20calf 02 050325%20calf 03

First cow-crossing - 16th March

Following the success with the horses (10th, below), the cows were (almost) as easy

050316 cow 01 Gathering before the crossing
050316%20cow 02 Easy does it...
050316%20cow 03 Ivy for encouragement

And finally -

050316 calf 01 Born today
050316%20calf 02 You want us to do what??
050316%20calf 03 Going home - to a barn

Inaugural road-crossing 16th March

Great excitement at our first usage of the holding pens and gates across Southwick Road...
something of a non-event, but good to get the practice :-)

050310%20horse 01 Gathering before the crossing
050310%20horse 02 Easy does it...
050310%20horse 03 Happily chomping in their new home

Cow-herding (or not) 9th March

3 of us having failed to lead the cattle to the pen last week, 12 volunteers spent the morning trying to herd them.
2 were collected, but 4 remain.

050309%20herd 01 heading off for the herd
050309%20herd 02 rounding them up....
050309%20herd 03 Wilma being the first under the tape, as they headed back to the scrub.

Poo picking

The site is getting covered..."Shit happens"

050309%20poo 01 sample site
050309%20poo 02 2 hours later
050309%20poo 03 8 garden sacks, and a builder's sack - bags of shit

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