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They're loading up bales now. Ran one to sq bale now another tractOr with this amazing accumulater, stacker. Looks pretty & green. Several hundred bales. Father (retired) & son (whose a fireman) work together. About 120 acre they hay on this Rd. Maybe 30 of their own land included.

It's well kept fields. Not grazed either, so usually 3 cuts.

 

[farmerjan]

Just a quick post.... Been on a couple times, a few comments but not much sit down time.

Fred's bull is no pet but he is quiet and calm... Honestly, I hope he fails his BSE test so he will get rid of him and quit wasting time and open cows.... it isn't like he cannot afford to sell this fat bull... for probably over $2500-3000 just at cull price.... and go buy another decent younger breeding age bull with better feet... Yes People can be so stupid....

Saturday went to the stockyards with some odd ball stuff... Have a friend that wants the holstein so didn't take him... I'll get a decent price, not as much as he might bring up there, but no commissions... and he will be gone by this weekend too. Sold the black steer off Jess/longhorn, the set of twins.... DS sold a heifer that had a high headed attitude problem, one that was just small and nothing we wanted to keep, a couple idiot steers, the 1305 "stupid" cow... and a dall ram that had next to no horns... They did good... He had Colt all day but he found a couple of other boys that were 6 and 7... so the 3 of them ran around on the catwalks and played in the head chute after all the weighins were done and everything... Bought back one steer that looked bloated, and he got wormed and will go out with some heifers for the summer probably. Prices were pretty darn good...Heifers brought in the 3-3.25 range and the steers were bigger but all brought in the 3-3.75 range. Not often heifers bring nearly as much as the steers...

DS bought 2 char crosses... one heifer that is supposed to be bred... nice but she cost 1900... another young looking one that looks like she might have lost a calf... little bit thin... probably 4-5 yrs old by teeth.... we'll see how they do... like 1100 at cull price... will get them preg checked with the next group to see status...

Got home around 9... long day.

Sunday; we took the 5 heifers the guy wanted to the pasture down the road... we worked the 2 cows through the chute, wormed and vacc.. turned them out at the barn with the 5 heifers still there..Wormed and turned the steer calf out with a few others there. I pulled staples off 3 posts that DS had pulled out of the jumbled pile... he was not feeling real great....

Of course GF and all the rest of the family were at her parents and DS is not welcome there by the father... who is a total A hole... so he talked to his father and decided to meet at Cracker Barrel later for Easter Dinner... DS fed out hay at a couple places, and I got laundry off the line, did a few little things, and DS and I went and met his father for supper... Make' s it easier for DS . Plus it helped me because I mentioned these roosters.. and EX called this morning, and he has a guy that is interested if I can bring them to ex's house, Wed aft. So that works for me... Hate to get rid of them in a way... but they are of no use really... and they chase and try to tread the little NH rooster all the time... Got to stop at the cardboard dumpster at the truck stop, and hopefully get a couple of boxes to put them in....

Got a farm this aft.. one tomorrow... 2 already set up for next week.... waiting to hear from the 500 cow herd... got 2 more to try to fit in... like I said, feast or famine.

Had to go to farm this morning... had a bigger steer out... plus 3 little baby calves that are in the lane now... gate was open at the end of the lane... and they were out... I get so perturbed at DS not keeping that gate shut until he gets the new wire up to replace the crap that is soooooo bad there along the lane, they get through the crap wire there..... but it seems he just doesn't bother to keep it shut. Have NO idea where the bigger steer got out, but he is in the field with the holsteins since he went down by the pond and around the small barn there on Linda's place... easy to get him in that gate. He can stay there with the holsteins and the lame steer until DS gets back; they have hay and water etc.

Leaving in a few to head to north to jersey farm that the farmer had had the surgery... going to go by and check the bred heifers DS moved there on Friday... then the bank and a couple errands on the way.

Time to get going...

 

[fuzzi]

Yippee, Stupid Cow is gone!

 

[Ridgetop]