Implement Cattle Shade and Water Access

heat stress in cattle as you guys can see it's super dry out I fed hay here yesterday here here this morning already and we've got several different little piles of hay the ground is so hard and dry right now it's just cracking up really really bad we've not had a significant rainfall in quite some time here on the Stony Ridge Farm we're in North Central North Carolina and the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains we're going to follow Tammy we can hear the cows over here in fact let's go ahead and give them our cattle call woo so if they don't respond to me and they don't call back that means they pretty happy pretty chill same scenario here guys the cows have access to shade this Valley right here also has a Creek in it the food is out here I want them to not be laying around lounging and pooping in their food so they Lounge over here and they eat out here they've got one more day in this padic before we move them across the farm to nice green grass which is right over there and we're going to give them access to about 40 acres so in the hottest part of the day the cattle tend to get over here in the shady area and you can see they're all basically lounging right here in the shade they will consume the leaves off of these trees they will eat up the canopy just like so and they'll lay down right here in this nice cool sandy soil down by the creek hey guys good morning everybody so let's talk about signs of heat stress in our animals guys and none of these animals are showing signs of heat stress one sign of heat stress would be panting their mouth would be wide open they would actually have drool or froth coming from them you can see their belly panting these cows are not under any heat stress whatsoever right here because they have a nice cool place to chill out now here on the Stony Ridge Farm I'm pretty much about keeping our animals out of waterways however I've had to make an exception to this and in the regenerative farming world we try to make exceptions to every rule I guess the cows need a cool place to chill out whether it's access to a pond in temperatures like this or access to a creek which we can see some of the cows are actually down here by the creek hey bud how you doing how you guys doing this morning hey good morning everybody you don't have to get up Daddy's just coming down through here so you can see there's a nice big water puddle down here this cow's standing in the water puddle and they're actually dispersing heat from their…