Everyone Has Their Own Animals They Love, For Me It’s Cows

Everyone loves animals don’t they? I certainly love animals, I love all sorts of animals but I do have a favorite.

I really love my cows. They’re such  animals, almost a half ton in weight but ever so gentle. I’ve never seen an aggressive cow. Bulls perhaps, but not cows. Even my kids can pat them as long as they’re feeding them at the same time, the cows don’t necessarily like being patted  but they’ll stand there and be patted if they’re getting fed well. They just pull back a little when you try and pat them because they’re nervous.

The best time to pat cows is when you feed them hay. They just love their hay, and when the grass growth is getting slow because winter is coming you need to in crease their feed with hay or something else. I have hay to give them.

Now that means of course  that youre committed to feeding your cows each and every day. Once there’s no feed in the field then they need hay to eat each day without fail. So you can’t just go away for a few days and leave them or they starve to death. So you’re committed to it.

I feed them all  myself. I like my holidays though so when you go away you have to have something so that the cows are fed. I do this myself.

I have a really good system. I keep a 2 of my paddocks fenced off with the gate closed so that when one has some good grass in it I can keep it that way. The cows all eat my hay until I have to go away and then I can open their gate and let them in there and they have plenty of food for a week and I can go away knowing my cows aren’t starving to death.

And the cows aren’t silly either, they know that there is grass in there somewhere when they look through th e gate so once I open the gate they’re right in there as fast as they can go.

And then when the holiday is over I take the cows all back into the main paddock, close the gates and feed them their hay all over again.

I feed my cows right after my own breakfast. They know when I’m going to feed them and they’re right there sitting in front of the shed in the mornings when I come out to feed them all. They get their hay right in front of the shed for breakfast. Usually 1 1/2 bales of hay for them. But on a cold day I give them more.

I gave them 2 bales of hay this morning as it was cold. But it’s getting warmer and the grass is getting longer, it’s growing dast. And that’s good because my hay is getting short, I have a shed for hay and it’s pretty empty as of now. (more…)

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Why Do I Love Writing? Who Knows?

Writing is fun, it’s why I do this website. Since I was a kid I’ve always loved writing stuff.

It’s my way of telling the world about my life, right here. Writing is cathartic.

I really love it, though I’m not all convinced that I’m much good at it really. I have been into writing for many years, in  fact I remember when I was really young in primary school I wrote stories one after another. I wrote them then gave them to my preps teacher who read them all. I suspect she got a little bored with it all. I can’t believe  I wrote so many stories when I was young like that.

When I got older I did a degree in Arts but never concentrated on writing, and now I wish I had done so. If I had my time all over again I would take my time to study what I loved to do, writing,  and I still love it.

It’s an interesting question  about whether or not I could ever have become good enough at writing to make money from it. Who knows. But if I had the chance then I should have tried it, after all if you don’t try you never know if you can really do it. I should have tried it.

I’m quite convinced writing is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Of course not everyone can learn it because there’s other important things to learn as well. For example I think it’s essential that you love to do it yourself. That’s like anything at all. If you don’t love it you’re not going to keep at it long enough to learn the skill.

If you really like it then you’ll take the time you need to take to develop it till you’re really good at it. It really will take some time but I’m sure it can be done. You need to work every day but if you love doing it then that’s no problem. Every  day is fine.
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