The poop piles around the cow shed had to be moved. They had migrated forward and it was time to get them out of the way, along with all the muck in the shed. We hired a guy with tractor, who cost less than renting a tractor ourselves. That's a winner!
The day started with getting the cows tied up out of the way. Beefy got excited as soon as he heard the tractor. He bucked and mooed. He stayed pretty wired the entire time and we had a hard time getting him tied up.
Christina just watched from a distance. When it was finished, the steers ran over and promptly climbed on top of the new pile. Beefy ran over to the feeder, got a bite of food, ran back to the pile, bite from the feeder, back to the pile. Goofy cow.
Several hours later when we went out to milk, we discovered that our daughters had failed to latch the gate that keeps the cows separated. They hadn't left it open, only unlatched, but that's all it took. All four cows were together and Christina was down 1.5 gallons in milk. While we milked, pepper didn't even get up, he just layed down.
I told them all that partying would get them in trouble. Sure enough, this morning pepper had diarrhea, probably from binging on milk. We gave him some probiotic and we'll keep an eye on him.
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