Our front paddocks haven’t been grazed for a long time, and have become pretty overgrown. When we put our cows in one of the paddocks a couple of days ago, the grass was nearly over their heads! Fortunately, the cows take their job of mowing down the grass very seriously. We need to get the grass in those front paddocks under control and include them in the regular grazing cycle. Since the cows get most nutrition from the new growing tips of the grass, and don’t do so well on old rank growth, it’s better to graze an area reasonably regularly and not let the grass get so long.
Hungry heifer, Rosy
Before we could put the animals in the front paddocks, we had to pull away ropes of kikuyu grass that had grown over the electric fence. As I took a step forward to tug on an especially big rope of grass, something caught my gaze — something small and green and wonderful. There, on a big lush leaf sat a little green frog. I called Kevin, and we spent a good while admiring this fine creature. We have a stream and several boggy areas on the Farmlet, which should be good frog habitats, but this is the first time we’ve actually seen a frog here. We hope we’ll see more as time goes on. Since we’ve fenced the cows out of the stream area now, it should become an increasingly attractive wildlife habitat.
Green and Golden Bell Frog