Post by mtchick on Oct 25, 2021 20:06:02 GMT -5
I don't know what to do about Kyrie. She is always on the wrong side of the fence. I had thought about butchering her, but now she is in her 2nd trimester and I just have a thing about butchering pregnant anything.
So she isn't really out of the fence, just on the wrong side. For the winter the cows are on the West side of the barn and the horses on the East. Kyrie wants to be on the East. Its annoying, at first it was just her, now its her and her calf, and I don't want her getting the rest of the cows thinking they need to be on that side also although right now they don't much care.
I have checked the fence and checked the fence and checked the fence some more. I cannot find a place she can get out, but some of my land is not able to be fenced. There are deep ravines and solid rim rock and she would need to be a mountain goat to get down and back up, but I really think that's what she is doing and has now taught her calf to do the same thing. I think its because she is half Wagyu, they are way different than other cows, not as lazy and willing to stand around and eat hay.
Right now they are both locked in the pen that I wean my calves in, and I think her calf will go on the 1st load out with the steer calves that are ready to go, but now I can't wean Kyrie's heifer before she goes.
Part of the issue is that when she is where she belongs, I really do like her, she is sweet and friendly, kind of unflappable, nothing bothers her. I can touch her all over and if I wanted to she would let me milk her. She raised a great calf that is almost as tall her at 6 months.
I guess the question is, do I send the calf off and just put up with Kyrie being out for now, or do I send her down the road also. I think once we have snow and they have to eat hay, she will stay where she belongs because the cows get much better hay than the horses do, but what will she do come spring.
So she isn't really out of the fence, just on the wrong side. For the winter the cows are on the West side of the barn and the horses on the East. Kyrie wants to be on the East. Its annoying, at first it was just her, now its her and her calf, and I don't want her getting the rest of the cows thinking they need to be on that side also although right now they don't much care.
I have checked the fence and checked the fence and checked the fence some more. I cannot find a place she can get out, but some of my land is not able to be fenced. There are deep ravines and solid rim rock and she would need to be a mountain goat to get down and back up, but I really think that's what she is doing and has now taught her calf to do the same thing. I think its because she is half Wagyu, they are way different than other cows, not as lazy and willing to stand around and eat hay.
Right now they are both locked in the pen that I wean my calves in, and I think her calf will go on the 1st load out with the steer calves that are ready to go, but now I can't wean Kyrie's heifer before she goes.
Part of the issue is that when she is where she belongs, I really do like her, she is sweet and friendly, kind of unflappable, nothing bothers her. I can touch her all over and if I wanted to she would let me milk her. She raised a great calf that is almost as tall her at 6 months.
I guess the question is, do I send the calf off and just put up with Kyrie being out for now, or do I send her down the road also. I think once we have snow and they have to eat hay, she will stay where she belongs because the cows get much better hay than the horses do, but what will she do come spring.