Today I was out helping Josh shift the heifers to another block about 2km away. It is great as he now has his own stock truck which makes the exercise a lot easier.
So you would load and unload them from the truck rather than walk them for the 2 km? ( Don't mean to sound as if I am accusing you of being too lazy to walk, LOL just no idea of the normal way of doing these things and wondering how easy it would be to get the truck over fields to the new space.)
Good to have help Dianne…I know these farmers rely on us women for these jobs!, how many times have I been told to just stand in that gate mum! Your loading ramps are something else though…we don’t have them! Dogs are helping too!
@gardencat in the ‘old’ days they would have walked. Now the roads are too busy so they are loaded on the truck. The stock yards for loading/unloading are near the roadside.
@happypat ha - those labs are more of a hindrance than a help. The two of them race around crazily. The cattle very quickly get used to the loading ramps and these heifers are easy to manage.
Great collage telling a story Dianne, back in the day in Lincolnshire it was a very common sight to see cattle and sheep being herded to another field along the road:)
