Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Sentry is outside tonight. He's been outside all day too. My boy is back.

Took the granddaughters to meet my DD at my sister's house. We had a fun week, and I can't wait for them to come back.

 

[Mike CHS]

I am so happy that he is back to normal.

 

[Baymule]

I am so happy that he is back to normal.

Me too! I thought I was gonna pay a big vet bill and pick up a dead dog. I’m so grateful to have him back and being himself. He did NOT want me to leave yesterday and followed my car to the end of the driveway. I got out a couple of times to reassure him, but he was very anxious. When I got home, I stopped the car, got out and gave him and Miss Jealous Sheba lots of petting.

 

[Baymule]

I left this morning for PT and Sentry cried. I felt like a rat. He was so anxious and upset, he cried. I told him I’d be back, but dogs deal with the here and now, so he cried to see me leaving him and I was a rat.

I go home, went in the gate and gave both dogs lots of attention, then brought Sentry in for he and I to have a late breakfast. Carson is outside on the porch, crying. I’m a rat again. I went out and gave him lots of attention, but the bottom line is he is outside and Sentry is inside. Mommy’s a rat.

 

[SageHill]

I left this morning for PT and Sentry cried. I felt like a rat. He was so anxious and upset, he cried. I told him I’d be back, but dogs deal with the here and now, so he cried to see me leaving him and I was a rat.

I go home, went in the gate and gave both dogs lots of attention, then brought Sentry in for he and I to have a late breakfast. Carson is outside on the porch, crying. I’m a rat again. I went out and gave him lots of attention, but the bottom line is he is outside and Sentry is inside. Mommy’s a rat.

kind of a - but I get it. Can't ever make them all happy all the time. Well maybe when dishing out treats.

 

[Baymule]

Dessa is so smart. She puts a hoof in the fence, then bites/scratches her foot and leg. Then she switches and sticks the other hoof in the fence.

Bennet has sold most of his cattle, keeping the heifer herd and Peggy’s pet cow. Pet cow came to the fence this morning.

Got a treat for me? I gave her a twist of alfalfa.

I tried to get a side picture of this Appaloosa cow, but she kept following me. Isn’t she pretty?

Hello! I’m Cow, who are you?

 

[Mini Horses]

So calming...just walking about and interacting with the animals.

 

[farmerjan]

Has it been long enough for Dessa to cycle? Maybe good sign she is bred finally????.

Love the speckled brahma cow. The heifer I kept out of the Longhorn has some speckles and they are more noticeable as she has matured. I am going to keep her even though there is a good chance she will throw "colored up" calves. But if I continue to breed her to a homo polled bull she will only throw polled calves so they will be more saleable. I dislike dehorning. If I use a bull that has any recessive genes for horns then she could have a horned calf. But will worry about that down the road. 99% of the angus bulls are homo polled... but there are a few surprises back in the woodpile in some of the bloodlines that people that were doing breeding years ago were not 100% honest about. Back when the angus got so tall and big, there were some that I "know" were using some chianina semen on but you would not see it in the pedigrees... it has gone on since time immortal... every single breed of animal has had some "manipulating" by some breeders...

I think they sold their cows a year too early..... the prices are trending up and are going to be higher next year with some of the drought disasters being eased. But a bird in the hand is better than 2 in the bush so I don't think they got hurt. They have some nice looking heifers....I like brahma's to look at. Closest I will come is the longhorn.... just NO market here and cannot justify taking up pasture with them when they just won't sell enough to even pay for the grass....

 

[Baymule]

They said they lose on the steers, but make up for it with their heifers. Tiger stripe heifers are in big demand here, cross of a Brahma and a Hereford. They are good mammas and have longevity.

These heifers are all he has now. He’s got bad knees, bad shoulders and doesn’t want to care for cattle all winter. I told him I know a top notch surgeon……..

 

[Ridgetop]

That is a pretty speckled cow. Easy to see why she is Peggy's pet. I don't blame him for wanting to cut down his labor and feed costs over the winter. Did he keep his big black Brahma bull for the heifers or are they too young to breed?

So glad that Sentry has recovered. And that Carson is becoming an "LGD". LOL I wonder if the winter rain means that the summer drought of last year is over.