The Bovine Bugle

Don't Fence Me In

Once grazing season begins we are repairing and replacing fence off and on for the next month. The last couple of days we had been working on replacing some worn out barbed wire behind the house with high-tensile electric fence. This was in preparation to move the older heifers and steers across the road and into their summer paddocks behind our house. I guess we weren't going fast enough for them because three of them had to go through the fence of the pasture they were in and wander down to our neighbor's house. Getting a phone call from your neighbor to say your cows are out is not fun, but these three came back pretty easily.

--Jonathan, Howmars Farm
Franklin, Vermont