Post by simplynaturalfarm on Jul 22, 2014 17:22:13 GMT -5
I have had more 2 AM tromps than I like to admit due to my hearing (but I am deaf in one ear and only 20% in the other so I think I"m over sensitive).
At the same time, I can tell by the sound of the moo that a cow is in the wrong place. We came home one night to hear a bull and I said "The moo is in the wrong place". The bull had pushed his way out of his pen and was only 40 feet to the north, but he'd taken out electric and panels to get in with the cows and then chased them all back through it and parked the herd by his bull pen.
And even this afternoon I heard something and said to hubby "there is a moo in the wrong place" (I was in the house LOL) Yup, there was calves in the front yard! He never notices these things.
Last night we went out to milk at midnight (my husband is THE world's best procrastinator and it doesn't help when you are putting off milking a witch of a cow!) and just as I put cow Moms in the headgates to nurse calves, DH says "The little girls are here!" (little girls is what we call our two American Guinea Hogs). We had 3 inches of rain and they had just walked out the electric net and come looking for us. Of course they went into the open chicken coop and I said 'Don't let them in the barn" because I figured the cows would go bonkers as they are not used to having the pigs around. SO what happens? Pigs peek at me through an open door and say "HEATHER!" and come trotting into the milking stanchion to say hello. I ran to the other barn door and DH called them and they ran up to him, I pushed them out the barn door and closed it and he locked them in the chicken coop overnight rather than try to fix their fence in the dark and mud (the posts we just popping out of the ground from all the moisture!)
But then we realized we had a short out and didn't want to wake up to bulls out, so while DH kept testing fences, I walked the 1200 feet back and forth connecting this one, disconnecting that, hollaring "How is it now?" til we came in at 2AM drenched and frozen and me muttering about stupid electric fences and pigs who NEVER stay in them when it rains. . . BUT we couldn't not fix it or else today we would have had other critters out!
SO, I would say you are in good company!
At the same time, I can tell by the sound of the moo that a cow is in the wrong place. We came home one night to hear a bull and I said "The moo is in the wrong place". The bull had pushed his way out of his pen and was only 40 feet to the north, but he'd taken out electric and panels to get in with the cows and then chased them all back through it and parked the herd by his bull pen.
And even this afternoon I heard something and said to hubby "there is a moo in the wrong place" (I was in the house LOL) Yup, there was calves in the front yard! He never notices these things.
Last night we went out to milk at midnight (my husband is THE world's best procrastinator and it doesn't help when you are putting off milking a witch of a cow!) and just as I put cow Moms in the headgates to nurse calves, DH says "The little girls are here!" (little girls is what we call our two American Guinea Hogs). We had 3 inches of rain and they had just walked out the electric net and come looking for us. Of course they went into the open chicken coop and I said 'Don't let them in the barn" because I figured the cows would go bonkers as they are not used to having the pigs around. SO what happens? Pigs peek at me through an open door and say "HEATHER!" and come trotting into the milking stanchion to say hello. I ran to the other barn door and DH called them and they ran up to him, I pushed them out the barn door and closed it and he locked them in the chicken coop overnight rather than try to fix their fence in the dark and mud (the posts we just popping out of the ground from all the moisture!)
But then we realized we had a short out and didn't want to wake up to bulls out, so while DH kept testing fences, I walked the 1200 feet back and forth connecting this one, disconnecting that, hollaring "How is it now?" til we came in at 2AM drenched and frozen and me muttering about stupid electric fences and pigs who NEVER stay in them when it rains. . . BUT we couldn't not fix it or else today we would have had other critters out!
SO, I would say you are in good company!