We raise beef cattle, but no one asks for a picture of a black beef cow. So I take pictures of black and white holsteins. Holsteins are bred to have black around their eyes because it keeps them from getting diseases of the eye. But you have to then overexpose the photographs to see their heads clearly. Look at the herds of black and white dairy cattle you pass. Do they have black around their eyes?
The cats are all ours except the 3 cats. When I went up to a barn with the camera ready they came out like fiercely protective watchdogs. Then the baby pigs started peeking out. The mother pigs without little ones were in the next field relaxing in the grass and taking mud baths. It looked like a pig spa--the big pigs looked very happy.
The sheep belong to our neighbors. I am told a really serious sheep farmer shears the mothers before they lamb. This makes it easier for the lambs to find milk and the sheep cuddle up to babies better because they are cold.
