Drystock -How often do you herd

Checking, looking at or feeding

I’d check mine twice a day, morning and evenings. Find it’s good for suckler calves to be walking around them every day so there used to you. Mad how the days you wear a different colour jacket they do be on edge or very flighty.

I’d bring 1/2 a packet of digestive biscuits (60c in Tesco) for the cows, or a head of lettuce.. cheaper than a bucket of nuts and great to get there attention.. they’d come running to you when they see you coming.

I'm a fan of Tesco's Milk Chocolate Oaties myself.😁 I dunno if I would I run for them though.

I walk mine every morning and evening, enjoy it tbh. With only a small herd and im close to the farm so 15min in the morning & longer in the evening. I've sucklers so you have to keep an eye more so on the calves (scour etc) but with the cows i'd typically know if something if wrong with how they behave.

There would always be someone around or passing who would be looking over the ditch so if something is wrong id get a call. One advantage of having nosey neighbors

Herding, or 'doing the herding'.

Checking /counting cattle. All checked every morning and eldest lad goes through the sucklers in the evening. Edited to say was always drummed into me how important water is,so check that too

All cattle would be counted once a day. Then sucklers would be twice a day to check for anything abulling or often you ll see a calf a little off in the morning then when you look at him in the evening checking to see is the cow drank and that, as 24 hrs is a long time on young animals... I love just walk through my cattle giving each one a good looking at if the weather allows. I do have my hand out looking for them to lick it or rub the odd one. Sometimes I ll break an ash branch off the ditch to give it to them. It's all to try and keep them quite and easy managed. I ll usually have 1 of the kids with me & I get them to do the same. That way both the cattle & the kids are used of one another... I think its important that children understand and respect cattle...

do the sucklers here twice a day for ai purposes. Any stock getting meal would be seen once a day and year old stock every 2days is fine for me.

I glad you feel superior to the rest of us who in your eyes are neglecting our stock.

The freedom is great. No landmines. No War.No Famine .No desert or lack of water.Grateful indeed.

Off through the fields with the dog, although he is keeping his distance from the 2yr old cattle!!Peace and quiet.Will I scale the wire (risky) or use the gap? Walk through an old double ditch where the cattle scratch, rub and shelter Get a stick from the ground and rub it on the bullocks crown until the dust rises through the hair. After a while, the bullock is doing the scratching and I hold the stick steady.

Mainly aa, hex and fr. 1 limousin.Different temperament altogether. He is always ready to take off. The eyes are less trusting.

Head back again after the short but long adventure with the dog bobbing up and down in the long meadow grass. The Snipe long gone.

What were you wearing in bed !!!

The noxious weed act 1936 was updated last month...never heard of anyone being prosecuted for docks & ragwort

@Bass Reeves it's not a self build if you're managing it I hope your not spoiling them. Only joking.

I've invested heavily in fencin, water etc to ensure if cattle aren't seen everyday it's not an issue. Bigger issues in life and farming than not seeing the cattle everyday