A Photo a Week Challenge: Livestock
Nancy only photographs livestock on vacation. I only photograph them in the neighborhood, probably because this area is full of farms. Dairy farms and horse farms. A few llamas here and there and lots of chickens.
Photo: Garry Armstrong
The cows are my favorite. They are friendly and I think they like having their pictures taken. They always give me their best side!
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Wonderful photos, Garry and Marilyn! There isn’t a lack of livestock near where I live, I just only seem to photograph animals when I’m on vacation. I’m not sure why… 🙂 Thanks for joining the challenge!
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The cows REALLY like us. Secretly, I think it’s the apples and carrots 🙂
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Could be. 🙂
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No wonder there is so much music on the pastural theme.
Leslie
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You can practically hear Beethoven’s 6th.
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The ones I’ve met around here are rather shy but they are sometimes curious especially if I have Cindy with me. I wish I had a photo of the first time she saw a cow as a puppy. It was hilarious she was terrified and fascinated at the same time. Didn’t want to look but couldn’t help herself. I always keep her on the leash if I take her out. Apart from the traffic I’ve heard that cows can be a bit nasty with dogs.
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I think it depends on their prior experiences with dogs. We don’t take our dogs out much. They aren’t good walkers and Duke is a total wacko as dogs go. He scares ME.
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I used to walk our previous dogs a lot but we lived in the suburbs where there were footpaths, little traffic and a quiet beach we could go to. Here there are no footpaths and I have to walk on the verge of a road with a 100kph speed limit to get anywhere so I don’t like taking Cindy that way. She’s not as used to the leash as David used to take her to the leash free park in the car. I don’t drive and it is 3kms away so now we play fetch in the back yard for her exercise.
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Because we have a fenced yard and a doggy door, we haven’t bothered much with leash training. Oddly, they aren’t bad, except for tangling the lines and our feet and each other. But if we get them going in a line, they follow each other pretty well. But this is the country and three dogs are the wrong number to walk.
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A wonderfully peaceful scene, and red barn in the distance. They look like Jersey cows to me – lots of rich milk.
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And indeed, they are dairy cows. They spend winter in the barn, but as soon as the weather warms up, they are out in the meadows and sometimes, down by the stream — if it’s really hot. Very friendly, easy-going cattle. They live like cows SHOULD live and so rarely do.
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Thinking about it more, they probably ARE Jersey’s. They are the favorite milk cows around here. They may be mixed with some other local cow, but you see Jerseys’ everywhere you see dairy farms.
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They are perfect looking cows.
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And VERY friendly, especially if they smell apple or carrot!
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Cows can get very curious when they see a camera
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These cows are like yours. Very friendly. They expect you to have an apple or a carrot, too. They are well-treated and not afraid of anything.
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