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  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

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    egghill
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    Branding time for calves. The day is bright and sunny, hot but not too hot, dusty, lots and lots of mamas mooing and calves mooing because they are separated from mama. Approximately 250 calves are being branded today and earlier in the day were rounded up by the cowboys and put into corrals. The horses were calmly resting…

  • Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

    Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

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    Whenever I give myself extra time for my many road trips, I use the ‘no highways’ option in Google Maps. In doing that last year, I passed a number of huge dairies and many head of Holstein cows happily grazing their way through hay. They were the first dairies I’d encountered in Southern California; being…