The cows go out to graze at last

hello everybody so today is the most exciting day of the year the day we all look forward to and probably even more so the day the cows look forward to so it is the afternoon of the 16th of April and finally after a very long winter the cows are going out into that field Over the Hedge imminently so dad has been out put up a fence uh kind of across the middle just to give him so as they don't run over the whole thing hopefully they won't go through it um they didn't last year worked out all right last year so we are about a week later than last year um but having but having had similar kind of wet March weather uh this year and last year um last year they went out a week earlier but we knew it was only temporary uh last year because we head run out of soilage and if you remember back last April we started at zero grazing bringing the grass into the cows cuz it was too wet for them to be out but this year we're a week later but to the forecast is set fair for as far as they can see so hopefully uh they'll stay out there is plenty of grass um and if necessary we do have plenty of soilage still in stock so there will be on a bit of soilage at night Grazing In the day so what we're going to do we're going to come to the far edge of the field just that in case they're run in there is just a bar wire fence there we don't want them to run and crash through the fence so we're just going to go there wait by the fence just to make sure nothing crashes into it and uh and then we get a good vantage point for filming as well so that's what we're going to do so the cows have seen D outputting the fence up they're now all excited they know what's going to happen you probably can't hear them but they are all shouting they're all looking over the gate already so they know it's coming and they are very excited for it ground condition very good look at the look at the soil here dry Dusty almost um so yeah they won't make a mess there's loads of grass out [Music] there let's get going let's let them go here we go gate is open they are thinking about it no they're going to go there here we go uh that was a bit tame they've all stayed over The Far Side they'll run a bit more yet hopefully you can see the fence line there that's where we want them just to stay left hand side of that fence line [Applause] grass up to their knees would have liked them to B out earlier just the weather wouldn't allow and get come to explore this side and they're off again Oh leaving you behind there we go they've all settled down just getting on a little bit of grez in uh it is late in the day they're not hungry they will pick a little bit little bit of fighting going on so there we go hopefully that is all set for a full season's grazing hopefully that's it so with better luck they won't come in till October now very late October but as ever we have no idea what's going to happen this summer um just the same as always so there we go finally they are out so thank you very much for watching just a little quick one today it's always it's never a long video when the caves go out but it's always the best one of the year so there we go so thanks very much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024