Paddock bashing!

When Tea first came to live with us, she spent a few days solely in her small enclosure.  After that, she had the run of our house paddock during the day.  We would let her out after "breakfast" and entice her back at afternoon feed time. 

Even though our house paddock is quite large, she would often camp on the doorstep and spend lots of time scratching on the wood table.  We had to keep our eye on her constantly as she wanted to eat all kinds of inappropriate matter!

At the beginning of July, when administering Tea's second immunisation, Nadia suggested our little calf was old enough for the bigger front paddock.  Tea's regime changed as a result.  We would lead her out of her enclosure into the paddock for her morning feeds - and do the reverse each afternoon.  As she grew, some other improvisations were necessary. 

Tea trampled a normal plastic bucket that was being used for her water.  Fortunately we had a sturdier bucket that became a replacement.  Until that point, her hay and calf pellets had been served in our camping wash-up "basin".  I wasn't keen for it to be destroyed so we found a $10.00 water barrel at the dump shop, which was cut down for use as a feed container.  (The top half wasn't wasted, it became a compost bin)!