Cows, calves and veterinary

Except for when it doesn't.
The dark line above is where the herd (70 cows) walked off the paddock in pouring rain two days ago. Having walked to the shed and back to the paddock often enough to make mud at the other gate also, they ran back to the paddock this morning over that same line of black. Just before it started raining. Now they're stuck, because that black line is called 'mild-moderate pugging'. They can't access either gate to the race without causing 'severe pugging' which means the grass on that area grows at half rate for the next several months. They're grazing against the gate into the next paddock (today's grazing - evidently these images were taken yesterday).
A few minutes later...
I is a wet cow.
And a wet Jersey grazing in the momentary sun.