Weekend Fun

I spent this past weekend back home on the farm. On Thursday afternoon I talked to my dad and he asked me to go home and help out on the ranch. He told me that there was kind of an emergency, but he didn't tell me what it was. When I arrived home I was welcomed by escaped cattle and dying chickens. While the chickens were a big deal, the escaped cattle had priority. For some reason, unknown by our help, 50 steers had escaped from the pasture that they were in. This means that there was 50 head of crazy cattle roaming the woods and highways around our farm. We got lucky because about 30 or 35 of the steers wandered their way back into the pasture when we put out feed, but this still meant that there were about 15 still out running through the woods. After a few hours of searching, night began to fall. This posed another problem, not being able to see. We decided that there was nothing we could do at night so we just went home. Well that next morning, as luck would have it, all of the cattle were back in the pasture. During the night, the steers that we already caught must have lured the escapees back. I was really excited to see that the cattle had returned, and I didn't have to do anything. I was then able to turn my attention to the dying chickens. There was really nothing that I could do about that either except for just turning on more fans and improving the air quality in the house.