More bovines

On today’s pre/post-rain walk, these four bovines were spotted up by our water tank. I think they’re the ones who routinely break through the fence down by the first gate, after their bull buddies wipe out the top barbed wire for them. As big and clumsy-looking as cows are, they are actually rather graceful when they dive over the remaining wires of the fence on their way out.

Once about a year ago we were herding a herd toward the gate which we had opened for them. There is a little dog-leg in the fence just before the gate. The lead cow saw that dog-leg and misinterpreted it as a corner, a trap. So she dove over the fence, getting her forelegs caught between the top and second wire. She did a complete back-flip and landed on her ample butt. The wires broke and she took off, leaving a nice hole in the fence for her buddies to hop over. Being an old fence, her mighty jerk popped the staples out of several of the cedar posts down the line, giving us plenty to do to fix the hole.

If it doesn’t snow too much tonight, maybe a fence-fixing mission is on for Sunday morning. (Hope it snows!)