Some days, you never know what you are going to wake up to.
The other morning, the cows came home… but we don’t have any cows.
So, some mornings I sleep in a little. It’s nice and I enjoy it. After spending so much of my life waking up between 2 and 6 am, a little extra sleep on days I can afford it is great. If our @little-peppers beat me up (that’s wake up first not physically abuse me) they will frequently get the chores started.
When they went out to check on the animals, they found some extra animals. A few large cows were in the yard, eating grass and dropping cowpies.
Judging from the large cowpie right in the middle of my “garden” at least one took a stroll in there too. Thankfully my garden is haphazard enough this year that they apparently didn’t touch much. With this news to share the @little-peppers came running right back in the house to let us know that there were cows in the yard.
This has happened before, and was not exactly a strange event for us. Perhaps if a few large bovine were standing in your yard when you woke up it may be a bigger deal, but maybe not. I went out and checked on them, and we let the neighbors know. Soon, we rounded them up and put them back in the fence. The whole ordeal only lasted a few minutes, and other than stepping in a cowpie, nothing bad really happened.
THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
The situation does remind me of some advice that homesteaders often give. The advice is to invest in some good fencing. If you put up some fencing that will actually keep your animals in, you will be able to avoid wasting a lot of time chasing stray animals around the area.
Both @bluerthangreen and @papa-pepper are planning on making sure that our fences are in order. We both plan on fencing in our entire properties and then having specific places for specific animals inside of that perimeter fence. If they get out of "their area" then they will still be fenced in on our property. Not only will that save the neighbors some trouble, but we will spend a lot less time tracking them down. One step at a time.
I'm heading back down to the land in a minute to work on clearing stumps some more so I can get in some road base and my shipping container soon, but I'll check back later to reply to more comments. Thanks everyone!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-cows
Until next time…
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Hello @papa-pepper. I translated this post in Russian. Translation here:
https://steemit.com/life/@igor-steem/kogda-k-tebe-domoi-prikhodyat-korovy-a-ty-ne-fermer . Thank you! Investments in the fence can result in losses for buying mineral fertilizers. Be carefully!
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Good translation @igor-steem ! I liked the post, the cows and even the cowpies :-)
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It seems to me that @papa-pepper does not like cows and pies. @papa-pepper likes pepper!
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I would take them to the butcher tight away. No fense, more beef with pepper. Right, @papa-pepper?
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I think so too.
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I can argue. @papa-pepper likes snakes, too.
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There is a saying that luck comes when you step on a shit in Korean proverb : )
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Back on the farm, our cows and our neighbor's cows took turns getting out and into the others corn fields. For some reason, they never went into their owner's fields, just the neighbors. Far more early morning roundups than should have been necessary. Good times.
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i guess the corn is always sweeter on the other side ;) hahaha!
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Lol, good times!
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I feel your pain @papa-pepper, I told you of my visitors The wandering Thanksgiving day Donkey and the herd of cattle. Even had a bull on my back porch one day. There have been many other visitors roll down my dirt road which include but are not limited too, hundreds of dogs, a pot bellied pig, a pigmy goat and to top it off an Emu!
Always something fun out in the middle of nowhere!
Keep those great posts coming!
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Your pictures are amazing. Cows play a vital role in our daily life @papa-pepper. Without them no milk, meat and other derivative products from them for our consumption. So we have to protect them and give them all the love they deserve from us.
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We enjoy seeing them around, and may even get one of our own one day.
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Oh no! I'll have to remember that!
Let the sharks free range and keep the cows in the pen. Thanks!
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In planning for my own homestead (that I'll never have) I too thought about fencing. Fencing is expensive and take a lot of work to put in and maintain. And then the cows go and rub themselves on it and push it over. (and they will lick the paintwork off your car too!)
So how about having an organic fence? String up blackberry etc on a lattice using the trees that are already there for supports. you get really nice barrier, especially if to make it several feet wide, that no-one will want to cross, and you also get berries for your icecream. :-)
It might take a couple of years for it to be fully established, but once it is there it will just keep on getting higher and thicker, and more full of berries.
Just a thought.
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Great idea @trevor.george, don't use gorse though....it's horrible OR barberry...they are the curse of the NZ countryside. Berries are all good :)
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or boxthorn!!! Those things will go right through the sole of your boot!
I spent a bunch of time on my aunt's farm when I was a kid ripping out boxthorn hedges.
Nasty stuff!
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That was an udderly mooving post.
:-)
I couldn't resist.
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Hahaha! The cowpies will be great for the plants mate!
Cheers
@progressivechef
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cow is a very usefull animal.we all should understand this...
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I think so too. They are very useful!
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Yes, no animal wants to die to become a food for another! Burgers can surely go vegan to save these lovely cows. Cows would never be a burger if we don't cook them into one.
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Don't step in the cow patty thinking it's a tree stump like I did when I was a young kid!! Awesome photos brother! Treat all animals with loving kindness. Much respect
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"Ya gotta watch your step when the chips are down.
Yippee ki yay! Cow Patti."
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Yippee I O Kai AY?
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I usually pick up cow cowpies and spray on my garden. It has high manure content and my crops like it alot. Thanks for sharing @papa-pepper
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They certainly can provide some good fertilizer for the garden. We mostly use rabbit manure because it is a "cold manure" and can be applied right away, but fertilizer is fertilizer, and all natural is best.
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Yeah 👍
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yeah! gotta love the rabbit poop
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We spent the summer WWOOFing and there is one lesson we learned more than any other. BEFORE you get animals make sure you have appropriate fencing for them! I spent hours chancing cows at one farm because the fencing was faulty.
More than fencing though make sure you have shelter, water, feed and any of their other needs in place before you get them. Often the haphazard things that get put in place after the animals have been brought in function well enough that they never get replaced with something that would function much better and save time.
As they say in the military:
Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
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@Papa-Pepper Prefers Proper Plans
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That's a new take on the 5 P's
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I completely understand. .... From a time my life when UPS didn't deliver the cow in my yard ... https://picsart.com/i/200097874000202
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Ha I had this happen one day too. I was working in my shop and looked out and saw 5 cows in my pasture. I finished what I was working on and those suckers had already made it back across the fence. I walked my fence line like 4 times and never found a hole. I am convinced that they jumped the fence!
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Some get very expert at opening gates...
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Very true, the dang goats do this too!
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Ha we are running 2 yearling heffers in our back yard . Had to chase them around a few times till we got the solar elec fence up. They didn't take out any gardens though luckily
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Nice photo
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That's happen often in my childhood villagge too, my bestfriend family have a cow and she going around other people houses when she escape XD
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my grandparents have a cow. I love drinking fresh milk. So tasty, 100% different from markets~
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Yet another good post - love the title!
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Congratulations for your excellent post, I invite you to follow us and we grow faster, greetings
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Cows are not exactly uncommon here in Nigeria, you'll find the Fulani people along with their cows almost everywhere there is grass. These cows have caused several communal clashes though.
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That is too funny! Get those fences fixed. :-)
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Is it true they have 11 stomachs? Cheers mike
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I believe it is 4 per cow.
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Your right I've just googled it , 1 rumen 2 reticulum 3 omasum 4 abomasum. Don't know where I got 11 from? Thanks for your reply cheers mike
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Hey @papa-pepper !!
awesome post as always........... and cow is useful animal but not easy to look after it:) i liked your post .........!!
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Haha, looks like it was a great day. You got some free cow's!!
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No, they went back to their owners, but at least they did not really mess anything up.
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Beautiful black Angus cows. We raised and showed them for a number of years but the ones the kids showed could never appear on the dinner table.
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In some states, you are supposed to put a fence around your cows.
In other states, you are supposed to put a fence around your house. (the cows were there first)
Fencing is expensive but worth it.
Some three board and wire fencing around what you really want to keep is good.
Barbed wire is mostly just to mark the edge of your area.
Cows will not cross it only because it is convenient not to.
I didn't see any markings or tags on those cows. It may be free beef on the hoof.
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Glad they could go back to their home. Fences are essential. Some rural areas in South Africa the people also don't have fences and the goats and cows wander in the streets.
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Cow's are great if you want to clear some land overgrown with weeds, they move through like locusts and what they leave behind manures the soil. Cows in the section can be a good thing, cow's running amok is not. :)
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Yeah don't step in the cow paddies!
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LOL that is pretty exciting thing to wake up to. I usually wake up to some kind of strange event every now in then in my salt water aquarium. Coral reefs that got up and moved to some strange place or new fish that had been hiding that we never knew where there, but never any cows in the yard lol. The other day we did have a few Hare's in the garden and that was pretty awesome though.
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That is so funny. Especially the last picture. My neighbors have chickens that come over to our house and visit sometimes. And he has a crazy dog that is big enough that it knocks over our big trash can for a bite to eat. I'd rather deal with cow patties over garbage all over the yard from my neighbor's dog.
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goooood wow
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https://giphy.com/gifs/cows-W4peoXsUecA1O
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There's really only 2 places you can live in West byGod Virginia, Yondernaholler and Uptharidge. When we lived Uptharidge, we would get proof-of-cows pretty much every day until they would get moved down to Yondernaholler for the winter...
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We don't have errant bovines...we have Pelibuey Sheep who when turned loose will eat everything and anything insight including fresh baked bread!
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The cowPIEs really should be under dessert hashtag. #dessert?
The cowpies really make this story stink.
The cowpies really make this a fertile story.
The cowpies ... OK, I'm done. . . .
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good post, the cow many benefit in our life
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Oh cows are the best! We used to have bottle calves and they were more like puppies until they got big enough to pin you against the wall! Awesome post:)
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Hehe those cows maybe looking for some salt. We have cows before and they love licking salt, at a minimum amount and not too much.
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Proof of cows LOL
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That's 3000 pounds of free beef jerky right there.
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We are always helping a neighbor to get there animal back to where they belong. Build a good fence and check it weekly, that's what we do and our animals stay put!
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Some nice steaks walking around on your farm :-)
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nice
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Gawo Vishwashya Matrah....(Holy Cow is the mother of entire universe).
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I see they left you some good composting material as a gift! Very funny!
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Next time, kill em and grill 'em. If the neighbor comes looking, just say: "Cows? I didn't see any cows". If he still seems suspicious and smells your BBQ, offer him a hot dog.
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LOL!
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