And they lumbered out of the brush just as I was loading the boys to go do an early chore at J&H’s place. Everything stopped while Ghost ran off to explain a few things. To his credit he herded them back the way they came and returned promptly to the Jeep for his ride.
I’m expecting a few bellyaches among the bovine gatecrashers…A few months ago I brought three bales of moldy alfalfa home and dumped it on the pile’o’mulch for Ian’s fruit trees. Yesterday, when I took this pic, the ruined hay was scattered around and half-gone. This morning it had been completely hoovered up. That stuff would have killed a horse. Are cows, with their more complex digestive systems, immune to major doses of mold? Time will tell – though it may not tell me.
Might be one way to keep ’em away. Or develop a herd of hallucinating heifers.
It won’t hurt the cows in the least. They can eat damned near anything. Yes, it is their four stage stomach digestion that makes it possible.
Now, if they were milk cows, the moldy hay could make the milk taste funny for a day or two, but it won’t hurt beef cattle.
cows can eat damn near anything. It didn’t hurt them. They probably loved it. Ever smelled silage? That would kill a horse dead, but there are cows that have never eaten anything BUT…