The grass IS greener!

The cows and horses out on Adventurer's Fen have been given back their whole roaming area again this week. They had been fenced into one half of it, whilst a new fence was built along the footpath. We let them out last week and now they are thoroughly enjoying the long grass that grew while they weren't grazing that area. When we let the fence down we called the cows through using a bucket of food. They have to use new crossing points and we thought if we led the cows through them with a bucket of food, the horses, who are not bucket trained, would soon get jealous and figure out how to get to the field where the grass was defiantly greener. The poor cows girls looked very confused when they reached the new fence! They had cantered down from two fields away, which in itself is an impressive sight (and the most active you will ever see those girls!), and then stopped suddenly when they realised there was a new fence in their way. We had driven the vehicle, along with the bucket of food, across the crossing point, and they looked at us, looked at the fence, looked at us again, looked at the fence again and then looked at each other as much as to say, " has this fence always been here?!". One of them eventually figured it out and then they all came thundering through to find food, though many of them were just as happy with the long, lush grazing on that side of the fence.

Magic Cows!

Its been fairly quiet with all the animals at the fen lately. The fight between the bulls has dropped off. Ewan and Billy seem to have made a new gang, and are avoiding Edmund and the rest of the herd. We are expecting the possibility of three new foals in the next few weeks, the mares having foaled around this time last year, so I shall keep you posted with them.
The only eventful, and slightly frustrating thing to happen is the mystery of the super flexible cows! We have had two troublesome cows find their way through some fencing, where to them, the grass definitely looks greener! They are mother and daughter, but are in different herds, and seem to be able to squeeze through any slightly slack fencing! I have spent a long while cow proofing a lot of fence lines and fighting with a lot of barbed wire and this, thankfully, has stopped them. Though we are at a loss as to how they managed to get through without leaving any hint of passage, or cow shaped holes in the fences! I think they may even have apperated there!