COW ATTACK!!! The Garden that is..

Could have been worse.. I could have lost the onions too. LOL. Bindy, the high headed soon to be hamburger, cow walked over a electric netting fence and into my garden and proceeded to eat it. Blasted BEAST!! She ate the beets and radishes the 1st day and some lettuce, which was mostly done anyway. I chased her out that day thinking that the fence was just unplugged and made sure it was on the next day, besides I really didn't think she'd eat the beans and broccoli!! She did. That night she was in there AGAIN eating the lettuce and Papa told me the fence wasn't hooked up so the next morning I had the boys watching her and she wasn't in the garden at all until we were waiting for Papa for a minute and then J yells 'Bindy's in the GARDEN' and I RAN out there (the plan was to move the fence when I had the time.) and she had already eaten the beans and the broccoli!! It couldn't have been more then 20 minutes!! She TOTALLY cleaned out the whole bed! And I needed to pick the 1st batch of beans this week!! ARG!! I LOVE beans and the cow ate them ALL!! Meanie!! LOL.

The radishes and lettuce bed.. eaten.. I never did get 'nice raised bed pictures' but they were BEAUTIFUL!!

Beets and onions. The black thing is the soaker hose!

Beans and broccoli!! I might get some broccoli yet as she did leave a few leaves. The white stuff on the end is my garden fabric that I used to lengthen the season. Works great!!

Bindy would be hamburger already if we didn't need her this fall to keep us in milk while Maggie is dry before she calves. Bindy has stepped on BOTH her front teats and WRECKED them both. So we are now milking her back two teats only and feeding all her milk to the animals, pigs and chicks, until any risk of infection in her front two teats is over. She gives 4 gallons out her her back two teats. Maggie gives 4 gallons from 4 teats. Bindy's bag has also 'blown' and hangs SUPER low. If we were milking by hand, we are using a machine now, we'd have to have her up on a stanchion of some kind so we could get a bucket under her! She is also teaching Maggie some bad habits along with the 'cow' that she's been able to teach her. As Maggie was more machine then 'cow' when we got her. Bindy's calf from this spring, Bullseye, is high headed just like her and so is her calf from two years ago, Billy, and as soon as they are gone that will be the last of 'high headed animals' on the place. We simply do not have the space or fences or WANT TOO to deal with them.