Not exactly a Sunday drive in the country!

Our Sunday was spent in the country and we did drive....some cattle! We moved some of
our cow/steer pairs across three pastures to the next one in our grazing rotation.

This was the water stop about 1/2 way to the pasture "way over east". The darn prairie dogs

have tried to take over the water lot and two pastures next to it. The water lot and one pasture

are on our private land so we can use some control methods. The other pasture is on federal

land where we can't do much about them except see them eat the grass, make holes and

produce a weed infested,  highly erodible mess and of course reproduce.

Our final destination with this bunch. The cattle know the schedule thru out the year as we change pastures

which makes it easy to move them from place to place.

We also had been working on getting our bulls in and back home this week. Bart was the last hold-out

of the bunch. He got to be rather agressive this summer. The first few minutes when we we getting

him to the corral and trailer he was good. Things rapidly went downhill from there though. Bart decided he was going to go the way he wanted which was the opposite of the way he was supposed to go. He got crankier and crankier,finally refusing to move at all. With Doug and I urging him with the help of the dogs

he still wouldn't budge. Eventually he just got plain mad and came after Doug and Badger. He had done this before so he was on probation anyway.  Let's just say Bart made a wreck of the day for us. We don't keep agressive bulls or cows on our place so it's "bye, bye, Bart"