I believe they were ...
"at least we'll be able to see today"
Got that a little wrong didn't I. When I left the house half an hour before this photo was taken it was clear blue sky, although there were some clouds building to the South. Then the day got even worse.
Visibility improved, but with in came sleety snow! You can see the "Bosses" cows coming down on the bottom left of the photo, very slowly as they didn't like coming into the snow showers.
Maid is the littlest black shape behind the 5 cows, who weren't keen on moving either
It is very hard to see, but my cows are just above the creek in the middle of the photo, and the Bosses mob is above the head of the creek and slightly to the left. Will mine kindly walk up to meet his? Maid is still behind pushing them, doing a great job as I am quite high up on the hill.
No they didn't! The 5 stopped just around the corner where I couldn't see them and wouldn't move, so I had to go down and help Maid, then I had this hill to climb up to get out. First hill of several for the day - it's still snow showers at this stage.
Up at the top, and guess what?? It's Murphy's Law in action again, now the job is almost finished it's clearing up.
We got another 58 cows. But know there are still 5 even further out, and one that beat me further down, and by then light was starting to fade, so I had to leave it and collect the bulk of them. It certainly paid off getting what we did of the mob off the hill before the big snow, as these last ones are much lighter in condition. They have also pushed into places looking for feed where they've not been before too.
The Boss said I would be home about 4.30pm, well I walked back into the kitchen at 7pm, and I was frozen as I'd taken sheep off their breaks on the way back.
So counting down the days until feeding out and break feeding finished - thankfully will be about the middle of next week. We just need the grass to grow now.
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