Baymule
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I’m tired of fighting fence lines. We’re thinking of hiring a neighbor to spray them for us. We are not winning the battle. Twice a year we are cleaning fence row and I’m just tired of it.
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Need a couple of goats @Baymule ????
. At least you have the fences to keep them in.
Slow going this morning. I did check the rain gauge and we did get another .15 inch last night... so just over a full inch in the last 3 days...It is thundering to the west and the sky is very dark. Hoping it comes this way... even a hard thunderstorm would not be unwelcome. Last night in Roanoke, about 50-70 miles south of me... they got about 2-3 inches in about 2 hours... roads in the city flooded as the drains did not handle it. Lots of pictures of roads flooded and overwhelmed by the fast rain.
Was going to go to town to the stockyard and watch prices, but just decided to stay here. Have to take the samples down to the business where I leave them for UPS sometime before 4:30.
Eating a sandwich for lunch then going to get back to doing some stuff.
The Poultry Swap at Gilmanor farm, near Richmond, VA; is on Sept 18th. "Starts at 8 a.m." but there are people there from before daylight... and by noon 90% of the stuff is sold... Going to meet with @Mini Horses again this fall... any other people/members want to come... we can meet up for a lunch gab fest....and you can come and look and buy more breeds/varieties/species for your farms!!!!!
. At least you have the fences to keep them in.Slow going this morning. I did check the rain gauge and we did get another .15 inch last night... so just over a full inch in the last 3 days...It is thundering to the west and the sky is very dark. Hoping it comes this way... even a hard thunderstorm would not be unwelcome. Last night in Roanoke, about 50-70 miles south of me... they got about 2-3 inches in about 2 hours... roads in the city flooded as the drains did not handle it. Lots of pictures of roads flooded and overwhelmed by the fast rain.
Was going to go to town to the stockyard and watch prices, but just decided to stay here. Have to take the samples down to the business where I leave them for UPS sometime before 4:30.
Eating a sandwich for lunch then going to get back to doing some stuff.
The Poultry Swap at Gilmanor farm, near Richmond, VA; is on Sept 18th. "Starts at 8 a.m." but there are people there from before daylight... and by noon 90% of the stuff is sold... Going to meet with @Mini Horses again this fall... any other people/members want to come... we can meet up for a lunch gab fest....and you can come and look and buy more breeds/varieties/species for your farms!!!!!
Ridgetop
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By - Don't your sheep clear the fence lines? Try putting s couple of them in where you want the fences cleared and don't feed them. They should clear the fences. Maybe use the wethers (bottle babies) for that?
Ridgetop
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Heard on the news last night that some people waiting for transplants were being removed from transplant lists if they didn't get Covid vaccine. One guy's doctor told him NOT to get it and he knows he will die now since they ignored the doctors letter and removed him from transplant list!
Better get in for your knee replacements fast!
Better get in for your knee replacements fast!
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Doctor said not to get the covid shot anytime near the surgery if I was thinking about it. In fact when he asked if I had gotten it, I said, no, and that I had no intention of getting it. He said that was fine. I imagine he is trying to not say anything else one way or another.
Yeah, I am hoping that this will come soon.... unless they shut down elective surgeries ; which I have heard they have done in SC.... don't know if that is true. May not be able to go into the allowed rehab center if they require it... Will find out more when I go for the CAT scan on the knees and all the blood work, end of Sept.
Yeah, I am hoping that this will come soon.... unless they shut down elective surgeries ; which I have heard they have done in SC.... don't know if that is true. May not be able to go into the allowed rehab center if they require it... Will find out more when I go for the CAT scan on the knees and all the blood work, end of Sept.
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Hope you can get surgery.
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Got my glass door panel a little bit ago.... GOD BLESS the guy who had it and sent it and it was well packed and all in one piece. Going to see about getting it in the door....
Think I might try dehydrating the peaches... going to get the Fruit Fresh tomorrow.... Once I get the stove door fixed, and in the house, then I will be able to do some canning too.... But I will be gone for 6-7 hours tomorrow for testing so it will have to wait....
And CDC has put out that there is concerning evidence about people that have gotten vaccinated early and that it looks like they are risk for increased disease.... just heard it on the radio by a woman putting out a statement from the CDC.... can't find anything on it yet....but the announcement also said that people were showing that the protection that the vaccine was supposed to offer has proven to not be as reliable as it was said to be.
Think I might try dehydrating the peaches... going to get the Fruit Fresh tomorrow.... Once I get the stove door fixed, and in the house, then I will be able to do some canning too.... But I will be gone for 6-7 hours tomorrow for testing so it will have to wait....
And CDC has put out that there is concerning evidence about people that have gotten vaccinated early and that it looks like they are risk for increased disease.... just heard it on the radio by a woman putting out a statement from the CDC.... can't find anything on it yet....but the announcement also said that people were showing that the protection that the vaccine was supposed to offer has proven to not be as reliable as it was said to be.
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Went and tested this afternoon. They are milking more cows than ever... going through the parlor... 255 through the parlor... I ache.... the last hour was not fun. Then had computer issues, AGAIN.... have these weird pain in the butt issues with the billing not getting updated when you update the whole herd info.... When I imported his herd into my computer as I normally do; so he doesn't have to take the tower home since there is no internet connection there...it wouldn't let me do what I needed to do to close it out by requiring the billing update... so rather than do the milk weight input on mine... I just exported it back to his and did everything on his computer....and then he was taking it home with him this evening and going to do the update on the billing, and put in some identification infor he was missing on some of the newly calved heifers... and I sorta talked him through it and and wrote a "cheat sheet" on how to do the closeout... and told him to call me if he needed to .... hopefully he can do it on his own... I was at least able to print the racking list of all the samples in order to pack....
Came down through a couple mile stretch that it must have rained pretty good... roads wet, big puddles everywhere... Got close here and nothing. But just 5 minutes ago, it was thundering & lightning and it just started to really rain a good hard shower. Hope it lasts a bit.... YAY
Going to take a shower, wash off the cow manure and put sweaty dirty clothes in the washer.... run them through and soak with the other jeans and then hang tomorrow... slight chance but not much... I don't care if they get rain water rinsed for 2 days....
Forgot to stop and get the fruit fresh, so will run down to the store in the morning... would rather the peaches don't get too dark while drying... Gotta stop and check the other ones out tomorrow... I will take the truck since I drive in the real tall grass/weeds in between the rows of trees. I did the horse on the way home.....done for the night.
Came down through a couple mile stretch that it must have rained pretty good... roads wet, big puddles everywhere... Got close here and nothing. But just 5 minutes ago, it was thundering & lightning and it just started to really rain a good hard shower. Hope it lasts a bit.... YAY
Going to take a shower, wash off the cow manure and put sweaty dirty clothes in the washer.... run them through and soak with the other jeans and then hang tomorrow... slight chance but not much... I don't care if they get rain water rinsed for 2 days....
Forgot to stop and get the fruit fresh, so will run down to the store in the morning... would rather the peaches don't get too dark while drying... Gotta stop and check the other ones out tomorrow... I will take the truck since I drive in the real tall grass/weeds in between the rows of trees. I did the horse on the way home.....done for the night.
Mini Horses
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I hope it just poured for you!! Pastures are key for your numbers. We've just been blessed with so much, so often....it's boots every morning or soaked feet. Tried to mow late yesterday and just too wet. Hadn't even rained. Sadly some of the corn fields In the area will have poor production with no rain at right times, depending on planting dates.
Does the "milking computer" get used just for that? I know some groups have various units in the field with their reps that are set up for "their" use. I take my own tablet for my job but use it for info and reporting the work order questions and pictures. Many use their smart phone and appropriate app.....a little different from one on my tablet. We have some jobs that require we scan products, I just don't do any of those.
I'm impressed that there is a farm who is expanding herd size. So many are going in opposite direction, or just selling out. Are they required to test on some specific periodic basis? Would think so, to meet food chain requirements.
They tried to kill me last week with work! But I'm tough and still kicking.
didn't make it to the goat auction yesterday. Couldn't get it all together to round up, load, etc. Another one next month! So will get all of them repositioned in places to feed up and load easily during the week before. Gonna sell a couple of the does I've kept from last yr and a couple from this spring. Want to just cut numbers for a while.....reorganize me. 
I have to get two fields roughed and seeded for some winter green. I need some time to do that and it needs to be very soon! 
we all have time problems.
Does the "milking computer" get used just for that? I know some groups have various units in the field with their reps that are set up for "their" use. I take my own tablet for my job but use it for info and reporting the work order questions and pictures. Many use their smart phone and appropriate app.....a little different from one on my tablet. We have some jobs that require we scan products, I just don't do any of those.
I'm impressed that there is a farm who is expanding herd size. So many are going in opposite direction, or just selling out. Are they required to test on some specific periodic basis? Would think so, to meet food chain requirements.
They tried to kill me last week with work! But I'm tough and still kicking.
didn't make it to the goat auction yesterday. Couldn't get it all together to round up, load, etc. Another one next month! So will get all of them repositioned in places to feed up and load easily during the week before. Gonna sell a couple of the does I've kept from last yr and a couple from this spring. Want to just cut numbers for a while.....reorganize me. I have to get two fields roughed and seeded for some winter green. I need some time to do that and it needs to be very soon! we all have time problems.
