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Lawn Care Country Style

These past few days "the man of the place" has been taking care of the end of the year lawn care, having the lawn mowed;
the bovine way

This is our new young Angus bull, isn't he handsome.

Now I would not reccomend this way for just anyone, you need to have a couple of well natured bovines, fenced in yard and patience, they are not fast.
And they just don't mow the yard but also fertilized at the same time.


Now I can not say that they do as well as the lawn mower, but it is environmentally friendly. I would imagine that the carbon footprint on this would be very low.

The only thing now to be done is the "the man of the place" needs to figure out how is going to spread the fertilizer around.

Till next time
Kat
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  1. DonieneOctober 15, 2011 at 7:31 AM

    Yeah, we love natural lawnmowers!! and the bull is very handsome fellow. Have a great weekend. Blessings

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  2. UnknownOctober 15, 2011 at 8:02 AM

    Are your lawn mowers friendly?
    Deb :)

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  3. KarenOctober 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM

    Love your new lawnmower! Maybe rain will help spread the fertilizer.

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  4. Rose Prairie Quilts and FarmOctober 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM

    Doniene, the bull is handsome and he is just 22 months old. He is going to be a dude.
    Deb, yes they are very friendly but I have learned that no matter how friendly they are still a lot bigger then me and I give them space.
    Karen, rain would be nice but the chicken found the piles and went through looking for bugs, so that did the job.

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  5. Farmgirl HeidiOctober 17, 2011 at 12:28 AM

    When I first read this I nearly fell outta my chair laughing. I wish my Hubby would get a few manual lawnmowers like yours, they're so quiet compared to the LOUD thing he does use. They're also so cute.

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