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Consider a hat or shower cap for protection 
Farmerjan's journal - Weather
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Baymule
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So you’re saying that you got
at and hit?
at and hit?
fuzzi
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Sounds like what we got for rain, and since it was a steady rainfall it soaked in, which we needed!I got just a touch over 2"soaked right in. The first couple hrs of light drizzle helped to allow later to soak. Of course, overcast/chilly most all day. Sun just coming out at 3:30-4: it'll be dark soon
. But clear & warmer over weekend.
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Saturday eve. It was a very nice day out. 40 to start, up to 77 in the sun... Next to no wind so quite nice. Too bad I still had that "half-a$$ed " headache which translated into not feeling like doing alot.
I did get the big load of socks that had been soaking, run through and hung out. Weather was great to just be out there. Put in the dirty cow manure jeans and sweatshirt and another pair of real dirty jeans, in to soak tonight.
Went up to do the jersey and calves and after letting her eat grain, and fed the bottle to the holstein, I let her out for the aft/eve/night.
DS had set up the pen at the pasture where the one heifer keeps going through the hi-tensile sire... I went there, they were all down near the pen and the steer was up in the field. Fed them some, and called him and he slowly ambles his way down to the pen... Takes about 10-15 minutes.. he will come for me but has not come for DS. One reason he does not stay with the others is there are 2 that ram him and bully him terribly. One butted him into the panel of the pen while I was there. She is a B#@%h...... I made sure he got some grain too after coming for me. DS is at an auction today with another couple friends... I called to see if they had come home early but they didn't... so I said I would just go up there tomorrow and see about getting them in again... Since the calves know I have feed, I see no big deal to get them back in tomorrow.
I went to DS's house since he is not home, and took a shower and washed my hair. Nice to get a shower that has some decent water pressure. Maybe he will get to fixing mine one of these days.
Not getting done, what I need to accomplish, with this nice weather...with this headache.
Samples in the house to pack later, or tomorrow.
Not overly motivated to make supper... not really hungry.... Going to go to bed early, maybe I can sleep it off tonight.
I did get the big load of socks that had been soaking, run through and hung out. Weather was great to just be out there. Put in the dirty cow manure jeans and sweatshirt and another pair of real dirty jeans, in to soak tonight.
Went up to do the jersey and calves and after letting her eat grain, and fed the bottle to the holstein, I let her out for the aft/eve/night.
DS had set up the pen at the pasture where the one heifer keeps going through the hi-tensile sire... I went there, they were all down near the pen and the steer was up in the field. Fed them some, and called him and he slowly ambles his way down to the pen... Takes about 10-15 minutes.. he will come for me but has not come for DS. One reason he does not stay with the others is there are 2 that ram him and bully him terribly. One butted him into the panel of the pen while I was there. She is a B#@%h...... I made sure he got some grain too after coming for me. DS is at an auction today with another couple friends... I called to see if they had come home early but they didn't... so I said I would just go up there tomorrow and see about getting them in again... Since the calves know I have feed, I see no big deal to get them back in tomorrow.
I went to DS's house since he is not home, and took a shower and washed my hair. Nice to get a shower that has some decent water pressure. Maybe he will get to fixing mine one of these days.
Not getting done, what I need to accomplish, with this nice weather...with this headache.
Samples in the house to pack later, or tomorrow.
Not overly motivated to make supper... not really hungry.... Going to go to bed early, maybe I can sleep it off tonight.
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Oh, also about the cow manure splatters. When the cows are coming in and going out the parlor... they "have to" do manure it seems. When the protein levels are high, it is much looser than when not... and it hits the concrete floors and naturally splatters everywhere. The pit where we stand between the 2 sides where the cows are for milking is only 8 ft wide... not like you can get totally away from them...
Have worn a "farmer's cap" on occasion... but then my neck gets splattered worse... and a hooded sweatshirt does not work... the cows will refuse to come in the barn because it is "different".... winter time I sometimes will wear a knit cap... but I have to be able to see the ear tag numbers, and hear the farmer when he calls them out if I can't see them... and a hat affects my hearing some. I have noticed a little loss of hearing in the last year or 2... in part from all the years of being on tractors and such I am sure... background noise affects me more... I try to not have anything that will further hamper my hearing...
Some days are worse than others in the barns too. Some times you might get only a couple of cows during the whole milking, that "have to sh!t" going in or out of the parlor... some days there is one or 2 in every group that has to do it... Friday was just one of those "everyone had to" kind of days.
Dairy manure has a different smell than say a beef cow... alot of that is due to the high protein, high concentrate feed with the corn silage... it stinks... after it has gone through the cow's system. Beef cow manure is much firmer, and smells more "earthy" like the grass and hay... add to that the iodine and other teat dips used... the iodine permeates your clothes and everything smells like it when you get out of there.
Part of the job... just ticks me off with the water pressure situation here so that washing my hair is such a pita with so little water pressure to just get under a good hot stream of water... so going to DS's today was nice to get it done, and stop smelling like cow sh!t and iodine....
Have worn a "farmer's cap" on occasion... but then my neck gets splattered worse... and a hooded sweatshirt does not work... the cows will refuse to come in the barn because it is "different".... winter time I sometimes will wear a knit cap... but I have to be able to see the ear tag numbers, and hear the farmer when he calls them out if I can't see them... and a hat affects my hearing some. I have noticed a little loss of hearing in the last year or 2... in part from all the years of being on tractors and such I am sure... background noise affects me more... I try to not have anything that will further hamper my hearing...
Some days are worse than others in the barns too. Some times you might get only a couple of cows during the whole milking, that "have to sh!t" going in or out of the parlor... some days there is one or 2 in every group that has to do it... Friday was just one of those "everyone had to" kind of days.
Dairy manure has a different smell than say a beef cow... alot of that is due to the high protein, high concentrate feed with the corn silage... it stinks... after it has gone through the cow's system. Beef cow manure is much firmer, and smells more "earthy" like the grass and hay... add to that the iodine and other teat dips used... the iodine permeates your clothes and everything smells like it when you get out of there.
Part of the job... just ticks me off with the water pressure situation here so that washing my hair is such a pita with so little water pressure to just get under a good hot stream of water... so going to DS's today was nice to get it done, and stop smelling like cow sh!t and iodine....
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With these weather fronts, temp changes, etc., I have sinuses swell, runny nose, sneeze....headache. I take a sinus pill and it works wonders!! If headache is frontal, maybe try sinus meds to see if it helps. 
. Nothing to loose but pain.
. Nothing to loose but pain.
fuzzi
Loving the herd life
What sinus pill do you use?With these weather fronts, temp changes, etc., I have sinuses swell, runny nose, sneeze....headache. I take a sinus pill and it works wonders!! If headache is frontal, maybe try sinus meds to see if it helps.
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@fuzzi just a 4 hr pill, cheap, effective...usually just one clears it. If needed I'll take another, or on another day. It clears for me.
