New Animals

Now, the animals news I talked about in my last post. Our neighbors to the east, Mark and Michelle, have a nice pasture (approx. 6 acres or so) that has not been being used. The grass is pretty good on it and the past couple years they have just had to brushhog it to keep it down. They are working on putting up fence in hopes of getting their horses and possibly some cows to put on their land. Their grass is starting to get kind of high this year, so we told them if they wanted us to and did not mind we could put up an electric fence around the pasture area and put some cows in there to keep the grass down until they got their barb wire fences finished so they did not have to mow it. They said they did not mind, so this past week Margo and I put up some electric fence around their main pasture (feel free to come pee on it anytime) and then we bought 4 calves from a guy in Farmington and he delivered them yesterday. Our plan is to keep them throughout the summer and let them grow a lot and then sell them in the fall to make some money off of them. Anyway, we are happy about being able to have some more calves for a while.

Here they are enjoying the grass