Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[Ridgetop]

Just hope as I take the boxes "off" the top.... that maybe there will be enough readable info to match them up.

If you can get the manufacturer's name and the model number off one of the cartons, they might have an instruction sheet on line.

Hope you keepfeeling better. Good news on the Jersey making enough mik to mostly feed both calves.

 

[farmerjan]

Friday night... COLD.... and windy today. Started at 29 and got to 40 but with the wind felt like was low 30's.... It is already down to 28 and dropping...

There weren't alot of people at the Christmas tree lot... and they had closed up by 2. It was just terribly cold with the wind. Tomorrow is not supposed to break 40, but more sun and a little less wind... maybe they will be busier.

Went up to the cow this aft and put her in with the calves, fed the bottle, and put a sq bale of hay in the feed bunk. There was enough water to do her for the night.....about 25 gal in thye one trough.... the weaned hol jumped right into eating too.
The heifer that had the calf, that I kept there.... that obviously got bred by the bull out at pasture, and was 6+ months when the rest were 3 months, back awhile ago..... I have been trying to give a little extra feed to, if there aren't alot of other cows around. It was just her and the 2 holstein heifers, so I dumped some out on the ground for them. Her calf was around the other side of the barn, and came around with her, and went to eating a bit off the ground too... so I will have to make sure she gets a little in the pen as she comes in through the creep gate.. or maybe it's "he".... anyway... the hol heifers are pushy so will have to feed her outside in one of the feeders if they come in the barn... Hopefully the vet will be coming to do preg checks once we get the cows home from pasture in a couple of weeks... and they will be going and staying with kept heifers at the barn as I do not want them bred by the bull by accident... get bangs vacc and dehorned and all... then the little calf can come in the barn and eat and the weaned hol can go back over and get more to eat. It will be just those 2 "babies" there... Besides the 2 on the jersey... I am going to wean off the black steer from the longhorn and send it to the barn also... she needs a rest and he does not need to be coming in the catch pen either...

Have one of those "headaches" where it hurts to touch my head... and when I cough. Thankfully not near as often as I was.....

Going to go to bed here shortly.