Mini Horses
Herd Master
How you feeling? Better, I hope.
Uhhh, no....that's not allowed!! You'll feel better and weather is looking real goodYES, I am coming to the swap if it KILLS ME........
Crud about the jerk neighbor. He just wants to be āthe expertā and cause trouble. What if you wrote up a paper complete with photos of what good/average/and poor beef and then dairy cattle looked like (with internet links) and gave it to the land owner so he can see for himself and not what the jerk A wants him to see? Sure it would take time and effort to put together but it could save your leases. Even if he knows or you think he knows at least itās something. A pain in the a** to do, but once itās done you can use it over and over.Thanks @SageHill but no Amazon Prime, no video stuff... I know, I am missing so much... but somehow I just don't seem to "miss it" when I have never had it...
Nice 61 this morning, up to 81 today. Sun then mix of sun and clouds.. some showers around, more east and north... we didn't get anything.
Was supposed to go this morning to open a gate and check on some cows... that PITA neighbor to the one pasture is now angling to oust us from another place owned by the same owner.. telling the owner we really are not taking care of the cows properly, they are too thin, we are negligent in properly rotating pastures... and the owner went to the big farm and then sent DS a text last night that the cows needed to be moved out of pasture 3 because it is eaten down to nothing and the cows are thin...here we go again... DS wound up going early this morning and moving them into 2... We have to wait for the adjoining property owner to move his heifers out of the field that backs up to pasture 2 or there is going to be problems with the bulls wanting over the fence... went through it 2 years ago when their heifers were all in raging heats and walking/backing up to/and even riding the fences with our bulls next to them... so we have a deal worked out to rotate them around so that they do not share a fenceline... he was supposed to get them moved this past week... well he hadn't texted DS yet and we knew the cows were ready to be moved...
So owner goes in there and complains the cows were following the truck... well, DUH, they always follow the truck since we feed from our truck... and that the pasture is over grazed... NO.... they were being "forced" to eat the rougher stuff up on the top before we moved them so they were eating the real good stuff close to the ground... and there are 2 cows in there that have dairy in them (mine) so they are "thinner".... more angular...
DS said that owner has no idea of good condition on a cow except for fat or skinny... and this PITA neighbor now has bent his ear... says it looks like a matter of time before we lose both places... and it will hurt as we run 40 pairs at this place... we will see... They are moved into 2 and the neighbor with the heifers was moving them today....
But again, some of the little things are hurting DS by not keeping up with them... there are rolls of hay not moved all off the one hayfield... and he can't be bothered to give me a list of where he wants the rolls of hay that I had asked about the last time...If he wants to run this then instead of NOT communicating with me, he needs to say, need to get this this and that moved to here and there... I have moved all the hay as soon as he has said where..... nope, doesn't talk to me because he is too concerned with getting done and going home to her... again.....
I have a couple I am going to probably move to the nurse cow pasture.... and I think that I am going to cut my numbers... so when he has to make cuts, mine will not become an issue between us... I am just getting tired of this....
Spent several hours over there checking cow numbers and such, going around the fence in field 3, because there are a couple missing and the perimeter fence there is also not good on one side... and we have had cattle over on them and they have had cattle over on us in the past...not the guy with the heifers.... gave DS the numbers and he can check with the other neighbor... they do not keep a close check on their cattle and last year we had a regular trail where the cattle were going back and forth....had several stay with ours for awhile...
Didn't do much else today... was not in the mood.
Got a text from another farmer asking about possible days, and answered him with some choices, but have not heard back... was hoping he would take tomorrow eve and Friday morning... the farm is only 7 miles away... easy to do... set up ahead of time and then go test in the eve & back in the morning... I am going to send him another text and see if he wants to do it... was talking about trying to make it work when they weren't chopping... his corn looks pretty good... like to get it over with...
Need to make something to eat...