Mooooovin'

Here at the ranch, we have about 1300 cows on site.

During the summers, we kick out all the pregnant cows that aren't going to pop soon to the pastures. It cuts down our feed costs tremendously when we can kick 300 pregnant girls to grass that we can feed for free.

Even though we have the mama to be's out in pasture all summer long, we have to bring them in about once a week to check on them. We check them for Pink Eye, spray them for flies, deworm a few that are looking skinny, and check on their due dates. This usually takes a couple hours to go through the girls. After we are done checking them and cutting out ones we plan on keeping in the corrals, the Herdsman and I push them all back out to pasture.

We take the Herdman's "horse" (aka the 4-wheeler) and push the girls out to whichever pasture they're being put back in.

I shot this video of us pushing cows back out yesterday: