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Yesterday morning was spent at La Contie where we are renting 20 hectares of pasture for our cows to munch on and hay to be made. An electric fence was erected, over hanging branches and undergrowth cut down with an assessment of escape routes and fencing in place to keep part of our herd happy for the summer.

This afternoon after the rain had stopped Mona, our eldest cow, her steer and two other steers were off on a holiday. They had split from the herd and kept in the hanger for a few days to settle them down before going in the trailer. It took two hours to get them as being large animals if they don't want to move its pretty hard work.

Finally in the trailer we left them to calm down while feeding the pigs where we found 4 pigs out of their enclosures,one of three was easily put back in with a bucket of food, the other group of three also were easily moved into a new enclosure, which they were going to go into anyway so i guess it wasn't too much of a pain.

Farmer J took the trailer off with me following with sticks, posts and essential kit in case the fence wasn't working. As we arrived the old farmer was there so helped off load them as they ran off to munch, happy cows once again.
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