Favorite part of the day

jon f mn · Oct 20, 2020

Got home early and it's snowing, so a perfect time to sit and watch and listen to the calves eat.

Don't know why, but I've always loved to sit and watch and listen while cattle eat. The perfect way to decompress after a day of driving in the snow. This is what it looks like outside now.

Must have at least 6" on the ground. I think it was 91 that we had the Halloween blizzard that left 3' of snow that never left that year. Hope this goes away, kinda early for it and I really need to get my ground fall plowed.

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

Holy cow 🐄 . I love to listen to cows and horses Eat but i cant stand listening to a human chomp

jon f mn · Oct 20, 2020

Amen to that

Cowboy2005 · Oct 20, 2020

We got around 5-6 inches as well. Too early for it in my opinion (im not ready!)

SweetFeet · Oct 20, 2020

Cattle munching is a nice sound.

Yeppers, way to early for accumulating whiteness on the ground!! We got some too... but you got more. Yuck.

DeltaSteve · Oct 20, 2020

75 degrees and sunny here in western Colorado.However,snow is forcast for the mountains this weedend.May or may not get any here in the valley.You can keep your snow....

JayinNY · Oct 20, 2020

I did the same in my friends barn when i took care of his cows for the winter, sit on a bale and listen, I liked the clanging of the chains on the tiestall pipes. Always nice and warm in the cow barn too, unlike the hoses barn!

retired farmer · Oct 20, 2020

That don't look like fun at all. Glad I don't drive truck any more. Last four years I drove, Casper to Rock Springs at night even if the roads were closed. Six hundred and seventy five miles round trip in eleven hours.

730virgil · Oct 20, 2020

i like watching the cows eating hay out round feeders. they eat most of the hay out one of feeder before they start on the other.

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 20, 2020

That road can be a Bugger in the summer let alone winter time,, never have cared for that part of my State to drive in much
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Olliejunkie · Oct 21, 2020

A friend was a sheep farmer. He usually had 1-200 head. In the winter during lambing season he would bring them in at night and feed. On a cold silent winter night it's amazing peaceful listening to that many sheep eat.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 21, 2020

That is a lot of snow. Been feeding cattle all my life, and it does make you smile when they all come to eat. And it gives the farmer the best opportunity to notice if one of the herd isn’t feeling well.

4520BW · Oct 21, 2020

my favorite thing as a kid was to go in the barn early in the morning and make the cows that were bedded down get up so I could hear them fart. ( think of all the ozone I destroyed!)

Bruce from Can. · Oct 21, 2020

You live on the wild side ! That can be a high risk activity, depending on what the cows have been eating

jon f mn · Oct 21, 2020

That was my thought too, first fresh corn silage in the fall and new spring pasture time. Lol

4520BW · Oct 21, 2020

ya we had to old apple tress that had the little green apples, they could s@1t thru a screen door at 10 feet when they got into those. ( I never got in with the cows just ran down the mangers)

David G · Oct 21, 2020

Agreed

larry@stinescorner · Oct 21, 2020

great pictures!thanks!!!

Bill(Wis) · Oct 21, 2020

Old neighbor used to strike one of those old farmer matches on the side seam of his bib overalls and light them off. He got his early morning flare that way.

coshoo · Oct 21, 2020

We bought a new place many years ago, and it was 70 acres of bare pasture land. The perimeter was fenced, so until we could get it cross fenced, we just put up an Arkansas gate across the entrance road. We moved in a mobile home, and about 30 head of cattle who could go wherever they wanted.

Woke up in the middle of the night to a sound we could not identify. Looked out, and they were all grazing right by the mobile. Of course, once we saw that, the sound made sense. I went out on the porch, and just listened for awhile.

John in Mich · Oct 21, 2020

Plow anyway. That is just a little moisture in a different form.

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