Looked at 2.30. Found them in the same place as Martin (L10), now laying down in the bracken. Almost hidden from view. Checked trough all working OK.

31st May 13:15 All together

Lola and the boys were grazing in a tight group in L10.  Looking pretty relaxed.

FYI

I'm away next week so I won't be blogging /looker in till the following mon/Tues. X

Today at 1.30pm

All four looking great central right of the heath field. Grazing calmly and happily x

All fit and well and grazing in K5.  There was a lot of what looked like clumps of badger hair all along the tracks as we walked back to the car park from the cows.

All fine today.

Found all four cattle down opposite the trough taking advantage of the shade under the trees. All of them looking fit and well today.

At 1800 hrs, Lola in J5 grazing, the boys in K5 - Cantor and Cronus grazing and Clever Clogs browsing birch scrub.  All very fit, very clean and looking extremely well.

Today at 7.15om

All four grazing contentedly in G7, lola is being amazing, as a couple with some inquisitive dogs approached she headed the younguns into the gorse bushes and stood guard til they passed. Bless they seem to be doing really well. The trough was also fine. X

Names

Just to say I think the names are great and I'm soo pleased I've named a steer, clever clogs, and he is my favourite because of his black stripes on his neck. Thank you for choosing one of mine. X

Today 9.40am

All four grazing happily tip centre of the heath field. It's soo lush and green after the rain yesterday. Oh and the stone chats are back, chatting away in the top of the gorse in the heath field. Lovely x

Tuesday

All four were in the woods not far from the car park.  All laid up cudding looking happy enough!

Today at 2pm

All three in among the gorse just right of the central path that goes thro the heath field. All have a lie down, looking very tranquil. Trough fine x

All named

thanks for suggesting names,  the votes have been cast and the names decided.  See Current Situation,

Thanks

Elliott

At about 1100 hrs today all 4 lying in K4 in what looked like their overnight scrapes.  All fit and well. Lola very protective of the boys as she came out to check carefully on our new puppy that was quietly sat watching the cows.  Trough OK too.

On the possible names for the steers, starting with C - and possibly relating to mother's names:

Calluna and Cornus, for those whose mothers had the names of flowers
Cantor for Madrigal's offspring.

................just some ideas.................

They seem to have moved a long way since yesterday. Possibly due to army training in J16. Found all four at 3.30, under the trees, lying down quietly chewing cud in I3 near to the path. They seem quite relaxed . No obvious problems.

All 3 boys plus lady of the house under an oak in L14.

Hot one with plenty of flies. No issues or concerns with any. Trough working and on.

Names for the steers

The steers do not have names - so if any of you would like to suggest some please feel free.

They must begin with a C as we name them by the year they are born and they are all boys. We try (sometimes fail!) to name them something associated with their mothers so here are their mothers names

67 - Mum's name is Forget-me-Not
75 - Mum's name is Hebe
71 - Mum's name is Madrigal (or Maddi for short)

please let me know if you come up with anything!

Laura

All seen and all well today at 1315 hrs.  Led by Lola, with the youngsters in line astern, they were moving from G3 to the main gate then south.  Do the steers have names?

Today 7.30

After looking everywhere me and my girls split up and found the cows by the fence just along from the first gate, along from the car park. Lola approached us and very gently said hello, then OK you can go now, only by shaking her head (I know what that means). She's being very protective, it was lovely to see, bless her. She has dropped into her role amazingly well. Soo glad to find them after two failed missions xx

Looked early today at 10.am. Cows are OK Joanne - they must have been hiding in the trees. found all four in the open, around L6, moving quite fast towards the railway line, grazing grass as they went. All four moving OK no sign of any problems.

Today 3.45-5.10

Again today as yesterday, I can't find them, I had a really good look around. I'm a little concerned now. X

Today 3-4.15

Can't see them any where walked around alot, they are playing hide and seek with me and eventually won x

Checked today at 2.30. Found all four in the trees at E15. They were being "worried" by a dog which barked and ran around them.  The three boys started to run away but Lola moved in and chased the dog off. Good mum! Watched them for 10 minutes and they settled down and ended up grazing on the grass along the path at F14. The dog owner rescued the dog and put it on a lead. I explained that there were new young bullocks in the group and was assured that the dog would be on lead in future.
Checked trough - all OK

all good in M4

Hello all,

I checked on the cattle today and found them in literally exactly the same place as last week.  Upon opening the blog just now I wanted to check all of your posts to make sure they had actually moved around the site in the last week and was pleased to see that had been.

They were all good and calm and let me have a good look all the way around each of them.

Checked the trough on my way out and all was good

Elliott

2nd May 12:55 All well

All 4 grazing together in L3.