Observing Cattle's Preference for Charcoal

unbelievable right into that charcoal rubbing eating gobbling up charcoal this cow here is off separate from the rest of them number 38 she will calf very soon that's my feeling she's starting to show in her bag and she's starting to show on her back in there a little bit and the ones that were stragglers are coming on through here guys [Music] thank you [Music] right here count number 213 is a little bit more woolly than the rest of the cows you see some of the shots of the rest of the cows that don't have quite as much hair this is a sign this is indicative of a little bit of parasite load in other words this cow probably has a little bit of worm load going on you can see she's over here she's rubbing she's scratching she's licking she's consuming that charcoal and the proof is in the pudding look at her she's just chewing it right up guys the proof is in the pudding here you know what I mean proof's into putting these cows need to be dewormed and they're deworming themselves naturally so what we do is we build slash piles in individual pastures throughout the farm and as the cows migrate through and it's not every single Paddock or every single pasture but it's probably once every week or so they'll go through a field that has a burnt slash pile that has charcoal available for them to deworm themselves the cows that have the higher worm load like this cow right here will go go for the slash file immediately the other cows we get out here in Grays and they'll also visit as you can see in the footage most of the cows in this pasture went to the ash within the first 10