Today was a beautiful day, so after some morning household chores it was time for some outside fix-ups. The pad around the south waterer has been deteriorating for a while now, and we thought we'd better get it fixed up before winter really hits. It is made of railroad ties laid side by side and joined together, and the outside ones were in bad shape. So we hauled all the stuff out there to pry out the old ones and put in new ones, and of course the cows all decided that would be the best time to come for a drink and some mineral. And then of course they thought they'd all better stick around to see what we were up to. It didn't seem to matter to them that they were really in the way of the tractor either, so after a few feeble attempts to move them the heck out of the way, I went up to the house to get Chili :o)
In short order Chili had gathered them all and had them heading out to pasture! She did a beautiful job of keeping them altogether until they got the gate into the 60 acre pasture. Right there are few turned right and headed up the fenceline instead of going thru the gate. Chili went thru the gateway, then headed up the fence on the opposite side from the renegades, got in front of them, turned them and headed them back down the fence and thru the gate. All without any direction from me what so ever! She took them part way out into the field and by this time I had made my way out to the field gate and called her back. We went back and helped Larry finish placing new ties around the water bowl, and just as he was nearly done, back the cows and calves came for round two! Once again Chili gathered them all and pushed them back out to pasture :) We finished up the pad and it is now ready for the gravel truck to bring a load of gravel in.......I think we'll close the gate when the truck comes so the cows don't come and supervise THAT job :)
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