The Cowboys are coming!

The farm here is divided by a road.  Not just any road, a commuter road.  It makes life interesting.

Especially interesting when you need to move 80+ head of cattle from the east fields to the west fields for grazing.  Guess what's between the east fields and west fields?  If you said, the road, you got it!
Usually Dear Farmer lets down the electric line and claps his hands and says,"Come on, ladies! Let's go!", and all the cows follow him.  But it's a little more hairy when you have an open road that you need the cows to cross before they get to the next field.  Who knows what one cow could decide to do?!
The eldest Farmer's Daughter works at a stable where cowboys board their horses.  When the cowboys found that Dear Farmer had cows, they were all excited.  They were thrilled when Dear Farmer said they could ride their horses among the herd, but their faces really lit up when Dear Farmer started talking about moving the herd across the road. All the possibilities of anything going wrong, all parties thought, could be solved if there were cowboys on horseback.   Aside from the great picture it makes(the Farmer's Daughter takes magnificent ones) it's actually very practical.  When a cow and a horse are together, the cow naturally will move away from the horse.  The horse is usually taller and more "in charge" than the cow.  (We are not talking about rodeos.) When a person ON a horse is among the cows, they will pretty much walk wherever they are told.  We move the cattle nice and slow (you don't want your meat running all day, makes for a tough steak) especially across the road, that's perfect.  Two cowboys flank the cows and stop traffic...and wow!  You should see traffic stop for a cowboy on a horse in the middle of the road!  Those cars don't even question or try to move around.  One cowboy moves the cattle across from behind and Dear Farmer stands in the front of the cows(on the other side of the road) clapping his hands and saying, "Come on, ladies! Let's go!"  It's definitely a team effort!  So far, everyone's doing the job great.  The Cowboys are happy.  Dear Farmer is happy.  And everything has gone fine.
Now when we prepare to move the herd across the road, we hear a little person excitedly shout, "The Cowboys are coming!"  And they do.