Tuesday 10th June - Staff Check

All four girls lying down chewing the cud in E9 this morning (11.08) 

All content and well. 

Just to let you know that I am away w/c 16th June for two weeks. My colleagues will cover lookering duties for me. With thanks for your continued time to help look after the girls. If you know any friends or neighbours that might be interested please do send them our way, we could do with one or two more people. 

Many thanks! 

Friday 6th June

Visited at 2.15pm but only just able to blog. All OK as Zoe reported. 

216's marks I saw last week have all gone/healed.

W3W: dignity.blockage.unfounded

Friday 6th June - Staff Check

All four girls have put on some nice condition since I last saw them and are looking great. 

A couple came up for head scratches and are being bothered by some ginormous horse flies so I'll check when they were last fly treated. 

Tuesday 3rd June - All good

 By the gate in the new paddock towards the ford, looking very happy 

Monday 2nd June - Cow Move

Opened the gate separating canal/corral section today. The girls are very happy with their fresh grazing arrangement. Gate will remain open for time being  so they can pass freely between the two sections. 

Kind Regards 

All good

 Making it easy by being by the fence towards the canal

Sat 31st May - staff update

114 escaped into the old bottle dump under the pine trees on Friday evening, discovered and called in by Michael. It was getting dark and she was showing no signs of venturing away from the fenceline so I decided to extend the boundary to give her more space and wait until morning.

I managed to lead her back into the pasture area this morning and have repaired the fence breach (W3W: intro.request.ownership). She's showing no ill effects from her night out and immediately rejoined the other 3 once she was back in.

Thursday 29th May

 Found all 4 munching grass at W3W: locating.booth.coil 11.30am

216 seems to have a small graze and small dark 'bump' on her side, near her left front leg. Possibly a tic? Surrounded by lots of flies. She wasn't keen for me to get close, so these are the best photos I could get. 

Visited today as unable to visit on Friday as usual.

Tuesday 27th May - Staff Check

All four girls seen and came up to say hello. Two of them then decided to have a wrestling match so I left them to it...! 

All good

 If a little moist 

Sunday 26th May - All Good

 All happily munching this evening in the twilight 

Friday 23rd May

Found 216, 235 and 108 near the canal. No sign of 114. All looking good and eating. Some bothersome flies around.

12.30pm W3W: Stitching.unscrew.expectant

Thursday 22nd PM - Staff Check

All four girls grazing in the grassy area near the old fire site. Great to see them slowly putting on condition. 

I've bashed in some new fence posts and re stapled everything, as they were pushing their heads through to graze the grass on the other side 🙄 

I've also brought the no fence fencline further into the site to prevent them doing this and other things like scratching themselves on the field gate/people feeding them from the gate.  

 The GPS signal here is not 100% accurate but we need to train them that fenceline = no go,  they probably will be receiving warnings via their collars over the next few days as they adjust to it and it may be a few metres in front of the physical fencline. I'll be monitoring via the app but just to let you know. 

Monday 19th May - Staff Check

All dozing by the field gate entrance this morning at 9am. All looking well. 

I notice they've been pushing on the fenceline next to the field gate. Ive tweaked the nofence pasture boundary to see if this helps but I'll come back in the next few days to strengthen the fence with new posts. 

Friday 16th May

Easily located today with the help of Nofence - thank you.

All 4 sunning themselves and chewing the cud. Quite a few pesky flies around. 114 has a slight red smear between their shoulders - probably as a result of a scratch.

Does anyone know their names? (114, 216, 225 and 108).

W3W: muted.dice.valley   11.10am

Wednesday 14th May - Staff Check

All four happily grazing and on the move. They've put on a bit of condition which is great to see and seem very happy here.  They followed me back to the gate, calling and attracting the attention of several passers by stopped to talk about them. 

I'll probably get a sign to remind people not to feed them to put on the field gate. Nobody was today, but given they are quite friendly cows that attract a lot of attention it seems like a good idea. 

Cheers 

Zoe 

2 good, 2 deep bushes

 2 were deep in the bushes but were happily munching, unusually the two groups were quite a distance apart

All good

 Seen up close by gate, appears very content 

Friday 9th May

Spotted all 4 at W3W: demand.fittingly.mammoth at 11.30am. Couldn't get very close but they were clearly busy eating and walking around. 

All good

 Looking very content!

Wed 7th May - staff check

All 4 seen well on canal side

All good

 All four happily munching 

Sun 4th may all sleepy