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No kidding... well at least he had a dust mask on. I hope he went straight into the truck wash after that! :-o

Thanks all. We do have some old cattle panels. I’ll figure a way to use one of those. Maybe strap or chain or wire some posts to it. About adding lime... the grass is good now, but I didn’t realize having cattle on it would make the soil too acid. Since we are in the middle of the Black Hills...

Thanks, Greybeard! That’s a great idea. I’m going to try that as soon as the ground dries up a bit from this most recent rain/snow episode.

Thanks, FarmerJan! We have 12.5 acres plus a rented pond, all zoned “limited ag,” surrounded by USFS land. The USFS land is “leased” to a rancher for grazing his Black Angus herd in summer. Otherwise no neighbors. We’ve only had the cows since September 8th, so not that much manure yet...

What? Me? Spoil the wee coo beasties??? :love

When you have cows, you have lots of poo. I knew this when I decided I had to have them of course, but the magnitude of the thing somehow eluded me... So, what do I do about it? Harrow it in? Will spreading it around make the grass inedible to the cows? I just got them this fall (yes, I know...

They’re Scottish Highland heifers—pretty girls. :love Eden is 19 months old and Brynn & Cait are 18 mo. They’re supposed to be full size... I wanted minis, but the price wasn’t working for me, nor the availability factor. So I’ll talk to the vet and maybe get semen from mini Highland bulls for...

Thanks Rammy! Sorry to be so long responding, but I only just saw this. Here are two of them; Eden & Brynn. You can just see Cait in the right background. She’s the smallest and wildest of them, and something of a bully to Eden. Brynn is the boss cow, usually nice to the others. Here is their...

Thanks! My DH was afraid it would harm them. It’s hard to say though, as they won’t go near it in any case. You have reassured him, which is a very good thing. :thumbsup Thanks so much!

We just set up a braided poly wire temporary fence for our Scottish Highland cattle. The poultry netting we had them in before registered at most 5 KV. We checked the poly braid, and it registers 9.9 kV. Is that too much? If it is, how can we fix it? The Patriot solar energizer we are using...

One more thing... I’d put the wire in flexible conduit to go through the aluminum siding. It will be sharp and could damage the insulation on the wires. At the least you should use one of those round conduit connectors used to attach conduit to utility boxes, etc. That would cover the sharp...

Thanks everyone! Very helpful. :thumbsup

Off to get lumber for their shed... Apparently there IS a hurry on that. Heckuva summer we’ve been having here.

We just had a nasty surprise hail storm. :hit Poor babies.:( We gave them sweet feed. I hope that was right. Except for Cait (she’s the mean one) because she wouldn’t take it. The blond girl is now Alana (the biggest one) The middle one (in the back) is Bridget, and Cait, the smallest, is up front.

I just brought home three heifers of varying sizes. Scottish Highlands. The biggest one was a bottle baby raised in the house because she was found on a cold, cold day, nearly frozen. The littlest one is bullying her and sometimes the middle one joins in. Is there any way I can mitigate this?

Thanks guys! Got my pretty girls today. When the sun comes up tomorrow I’ll get a photo. :love

Hi everyone! My husband and I live on 12.5 acres in the central Black Hills, western South Dakota. I’m enjoying my new little chickens so much that I decided I needed some cows to keep them company. Besides which I really, really want Scottish Highland cattle because they’re so dang CUTE...