We have COWS!!

Monday our cows were finally delivered. We were supposed to have them delivered last Wednesday but it rained all last week and most of the weekend. So we have been waiting patiently to have them delivered.

We got over to the farm and still needed to hook up the electric charger to the fence. We finally got the grounding rods in the ground (hit rock twice) and the wires connected. We got the charger attached to fence and grounding rods and Tanner flipped the switch. I got out the fence tester and nothing. Then we realized that is was so sunny we just couldn't see the lights blink.

Then I needed to get in the creek and clean the debris from the barbed wire that had collected after the rain. Wow, was that water cold and deep. I had just enough time to get my boots back on when the truck with the cows started down the road.

It was amazing watching them get out of the trailer. I just kept thinking, these are ours, we have cows!

We have 2 heifers (girls). One is the little red one (angus) that was looking at me, and the other is the tan one (in picture above). We also have a holstein heifer which will be a milker in a year or so.

Sampson was definitely NOT afraid of them. He walked around like he knew just what to do. Then he started eating their food. They came over to see what he was doing and just stood there staring at him for the longest time. We eventually had to pull him back off the food so they could have some.


Tanner was having fun feeding some of the smaller ones. After about 5 minutes he said "I want to chase my cows". We had to explain to him he couldn't do that. His response was a grunt.