Well, had a good day. Got up, went and met DS and all, and turns out Fred's sons were visiting, so they got "roped into" coming out to help... so lots of people and the cows just decided that going in the gate to the little catch pen was better than "can I run out between those people " because normally there are fewer people, so bigger gap in space to get through... It went good... got all the cows in the barn, then let all the cows out through the one barn door as DS used the pour on ivermectin on them... Had all the calves in the little barn lot... and the one cow that keeps getting out that I was going to preg check... Backed the trailer up, got some gates situated... loaded all the calves and the cow and on to the barn. Got them in our barn, run them down the chute a couple at a time, in the head catch... banded bulls, vacc for blackleg and injectible wormer on the calves... flytags in their ears... Kept the 2 biggest bull calves; born later last fall so now in the 500 lb size... banded them with the "big bander"... Callicrate one not the little "cheerio type bands" and kept one big heifer there at the barn... and I "armed" the cow and feel nothing(preg) in her... so the 3 calves and the cow stayed there. There was another bigger heifer, but she has pinkeye, so she got treated, a patch on her eye, and went back to Fred's with the smaller calves... she can get sold in the fall when these calves get sold... hopefully the eye will heal up with little or no spot in it... heifer would get "hurt" , price wise, if he were to sell her now with the pinkeye... The cow and the 3 calves will get sold ... probably next week... we will run the calves through the chute again, the sacks should be cold and can be cut off so they will be "steers", and the cow will get put in the cull pen...
DS didn't really want to keep them there for a couple weeks... and we won't have everyone of ours there to sell next week... so he will take these 4 of Fred's to the sale, next Friday... got to feed them for a week.... and then ours will go the following week or 2 after...., or as soon as we get the rest of the bigger calves to the barn. DS said we are also going to look over the group of cows that were open, that we put back with the bull with their big calves... and where we are going to pull the calves off since it is getting so dry.... and see if any of them have "eh- just so-so " calves... they will only be 1-2 months bred back... and if some of them did not raise that great a calf... they might get culled too...
The drought conditions have really got DS spooked.... he called about some other hay for sale too....going to go look at it I guess... or maybe go buy a trailer load and them decide if he likes it enough to commit to the rest of it.. We may be feeding some hay here soon if we don't get some rain....
The spring is doing okay at the nurse cow pasture but the grass is very short... there are more animals there than we normally keep, but they are getting bred. May have to supplement with some hay if we do not get any rain.....
He did get the last hay baled... called me and it made more than he thought it might... about normal amount... but it had poultry litter put on it... so more yield... which was good... so we are ahead there...
PRAYING that the called for storms and such do come tomorrow.... wouldn't get too upset even if we get some hail since our corn is short still so it would be minimal leaf damage.... they are saying possible severe winds... if it brings moisture we will deal with it.
After I got back, I wound up going to the store since I badly wanted to get some more of these frozen Iced Coffee flavored sherbet popsicles.... I got a box to try, the other day when I went by there, and they are FANTASTIC.... so I went back and they had only 8 boxes left and I got them all... stuck in the freezer... also got a choc covered banana and a strawberry one to try... They are distributed by "Klein's Real Kosher Ice Cream" out of Brooklyn NY... Made in Israel... by Israel-American Food & Ice Cream Co.... THEY ARE REALLY REALLY GOOD.... will try the other flavors... but these coffee flavored ones are just soooooo good...
And I don't drink coffee... but love coffee flavored ice cream and "mocha" flavored stuff...
Got some discounted "potato buns" and a couple other things... came home... Got that all in the freezer...
Got the clothes out on the line to dry too... the breeze is really blowing and they were half dry by the time I got the last of the stuff hung...
Too hot to work in the garden... so came in, finally made an egg salad sandwich on a bun for lunch. Sat down and am working on the samples and stuff from yesterday... Taking a break to go on here, checking the forecast for the "possible storms" tomorrow...
Got to get the stuff in the car for tomorrow... I am going to take the explorer since all the meters are in the outback for Friday's testing. Not going to unload all that to fit all the boxes of bottles... I will get what I need in the explorer later this afternoon...
Hope I can get in the garden later.... put down some more of the newspapers and hay on top to stop the weeds before they start.
Going to haul a couple of 15 gal barrels of water to the calves later too... haven't gotten the hol bull calves moved here to the house yet... maybe get that done this weekend...
Well, back to the testing stuff.....
