Thought I would share this funny little story about what happened to us the other night. It would be funnier, but since we have a definate hay shortage it is less humorous!
We were moving a round bale in with the cows off the trailer in the middle of our most recent snow storm when my husband and I were talking about how fat our 2 hopefully pregnant cows looked. I was thinking "boy they are huge for this early in pregnancy". Our biggest one was as big as a barrel. I had just looked closely at them a couple days before and they hadn't looked that big. I offered a handful of hay to her and she just sniffed it, which is totally unlike her.
My daughter and I went into the barn to get a look at the other one when I looked up and the big girl was heading up the aisle to the inside of the barn where the hay is stored! She looked over at me as if she was saying "oh s--- she saw me". I told my daughter to go get dad, quick! I jumped the fence and got in front of her not paying any attention to the hay bales we do have left. My husband came in and opened the door so they could back out. We got them out and looked at the stack of hay . . . partially demolished!
We don't think they ate as much as it looked like at first but it's hard to tell. No wonder they were fat and didn't want the round bale! Someone had either left the small door leading in there not latched all the way or we have cows that can unlatch a door. We now have a pile of hay to use out of for the miniature horses and goats instead of small bales.
I made my husband go out later just to make sure they hadn't gotten in there again!
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