Baymule
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We used hot wire in Lindale to keep Paris from digging out, climbing and jumping the fence. We used the wire run through a piece of water hose in a couple of places. It worked just fine.
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canesisters
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Counting down to next heat cycle - somewhere between 19th & 25th.
I wasn't exactly sure when the last one was, just a vague guess. I'll get this one on the calendar & then call the AI folks.
I'm assuming that if she IS pining for company - sending her to a friend's herd for a month to meet their bull would only make things worse?
Fence news, I'm checking it every few days & both the paddock & pasture are maxing out the checker with a strong flash at the 7000 reading.
I did manage to run separate lead-out lines so the paddock & pasture are totally separate from each other but running off the same charger.
This looks like a hot mess... but what I did was take a piece of heavy gage wire & make a zig-zag. Then I can easily drop a hook from each lead-out onto it - or take each one off easily without having to unplug the whole system.
I wasn't exactly sure when the last one was, just a vague guess. I'll get this one on the calendar & then call the AI folks.
I'm assuming that if she IS pining for company - sending her to a friend's herd for a month to meet their bull would only make things worse?
Fence news, I'm checking it every few days & both the paddock & pasture are maxing out the checker with a strong flash at the 7000 reading.
I did manage to run separate lead-out lines so the paddock & pasture are totally separate from each other but running off the same charger.
This looks like a hot mess... but what I did was take a piece of heavy gage wire & make a zig-zag. Then I can easily drop a hook from each lead-out onto it - or take each one off easily without having to unplug the whole system.
Mini Horses
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If it works, don't "fix" it!! 
That's a good option
That's a good option
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I like the way you accommodated each line... ingenuity... if it gives you a full charge on each side... who cares... Like @Mini Horses said, if it works......Good idea actually....
Her "pining for company" is as much related to her hormones as anything... sending her to get bred will not make it worse if she gets settled (pregnant)... send her 2-3 days before anticipated heat...leave her a month... that gives her 2 possible heats with the bull, in case he doesn't catch her on the first one.... lots of "family cows" live solitary lives for a good part of their time... it is the "hormones" that sends them looking... they don't want "company" as much as they need to have their "itched, scratched"....
Her "pining for company" is as much related to her hormones as anything... sending her to get bred will not make it worse if she gets settled (pregnant)... send her 2-3 days before anticipated heat...leave her a month... that gives her 2 possible heats with the bull, in case he doesn't catch her on the first one.... lots of "family cows" live solitary lives for a good part of their time... it is the "hormones" that sends them looking... they don't want "company" as much as they need to have their "itched, scratched"....
Baymule
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I had a cow bust out, go 3 miles dow the road to a neighbors yard. She was trying to get in his field so he opened the gate. He figured someone would come along looking for her and it would keep her off the road. His bull bred her. To take her back home, my daughter and I sat on a truck tailgate with a bucket of cubes. Neighbor turned her out in his yard and we shook the bucket. She happily trotted behind the truck with us giving her cubes. We met oncoming traffic, it was a rural country road. Our friend driving the truck said all he saw was teeth, from people laughing. 
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Baymule
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Ain’t that the truth!
I make lists of things I need to do. Sometimes I break a chore down in steps. I cross off each chore when completed, it makes me feel accomplished. So on a big chore, that may take awhile, crossing off the small steps shows me what I’ve accomplished at the end of the day.
I get side tracked and veer off on things not on my list. So I write them on the list and cross them off.
I make lists of things I need to do. Sometimes I break a chore down in steps. I cross off each chore when completed, it makes me feel accomplished. So on a big chore, that may take awhile, crossing off the small steps shows me what I’ve accomplished at the end of the day.
I get side tracked and veer off on things not on my list. So I write them on the list and cross them off.
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canesisters
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No heat yet. She's happily laying in her fav spot on the back side of the pasture chewing cud.
Work Drama.
We have a new plant Mgr & he's flexing his authority and justifying his hire by 'fixing' everything all the others didn't/couldn't/wouldn't.
The latest is to suddenly add 15mins onto everyone's day (7-7:15 instead of 7-7) with the expectation that we'll eventually be running 24hrs non-stop - handing off a running machine from crew to crew. What has been happening is that we turn off the machine at 6:45. My creel crew immediately walks off & spends 15mins smoking by the door & waiting to clock out. I spend most of it closing down my station, finalizing the computer log & cleaning up.
I agree that management SHOULD be aggravated seeing a dozen employees smoking, eating, changing clothes, socializing, wandering the parking lot, etc EVERY day while waiting 15-20mins to clock out.
But he didn't bother to even consider if any of the 'infrastructure' could do it. The computer automatically changes shift at 6:50. After asking several times what we were supposed to do about that .... I stood there this AM - being watched by my supervisor & the mgr - with the machine running right past the computer's switch over & watched all of the data on the last roll vanish at 6:50. 1400meters of product & 4 employees working nearly 3hrs, gone.
Then, after closing up my station, I had to interrupt the safety meeting going on in the breakroom in order to get my bag, jacket & food out of the fridge.....
Nobody likes change, but thoughtless poorly planned changes for the sake of change isn't going to go over well... and in this place, might end up getting someone hurt.
Work Drama.
We have a new plant Mgr & he's flexing his authority and justifying his hire by 'fixing' everything all the others didn't/couldn't/wouldn't.
The latest is to suddenly add 15mins onto everyone's day (7-7:15 instead of 7-7) with the expectation that we'll eventually be running 24hrs non-stop - handing off a running machine from crew to crew. What has been happening is that we turn off the machine at 6:45. My creel crew immediately walks off & spends 15mins smoking by the door & waiting to clock out. I spend most of it closing down my station, finalizing the computer log & cleaning up.
I agree that management SHOULD be aggravated seeing a dozen employees smoking, eating, changing clothes, socializing, wandering the parking lot, etc EVERY day while waiting 15-20mins to clock out.
But he didn't bother to even consider if any of the 'infrastructure' could do it. The computer automatically changes shift at 6:50. After asking several times what we were supposed to do about that .... I stood there this AM - being watched by my supervisor & the mgr - with the machine running right past the computer's switch over & watched all of the data on the last roll vanish at 6:50. 1400meters of product & 4 employees working nearly 3hrs, gone.
Then, after closing up my station, I had to interrupt the safety meeting going on in the breakroom in order to get my bag, jacket & food out of the fridge.....
Nobody likes change, but thoughtless poorly planned changes for the sake of change isn't going to go over well... and in this place, might end up getting someone hurt.
