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The p-butter has been stolen off the trap twice so I know it is one of the littler field mice... they do that.. The bigger deer mice get caught more easily. I will get it set just right with next to no tension and catch it....
Yesterday's crazy weather got crazier... it cleared off late afternoon, and then clouded up and we got another rain shower for about 2 hours last night from looking at the radar... It was starting to rain again at 11 or so...
It is sunny out this morning... 39 overnight. 60's today? Then rain again tomorrow... and possible snow, or ice or "who knows what" on Tuesday...
It looks to be an every other day thing for weather of some sort all next week. UGH....
Going in to pack the samples... DS is meeting with the guy coming to look at the steers at 9:30...
We discussed the weaning of these calves off the cows we preg checked while I was driving home last eve.... I/we hate doing it with crazy weather swings...stress on the calves makes them much more vulnerable to getting sick....(of course, if they had been moved before all the crappy weather we could have worked around the wet weather).... but decided that if the guy does not want to take the calves or offer enough for them....... we will move all the cows that are bred more than the 5 months...dry them off..... keep the 4 that are shorter bred and my open cow, with the calves as "nannies" and so all the calves will be at the barn to come in the barn for a week to get started on the silage... the cows need to be out in the field we want them in to calve, and out of the mud and mess... 25 big cows are just churning everything up into mud with the rain we have had....plus they do NOT need the silage they are eating in the barn this far along in their pregnancy...
If the guy does not buy the steers, we are weaning them off the late trimester cows and will hold until March and have about 40-50 to sell...from 450-650 lbs so several groups... These calves need to be off the cows.... He said he might sell the 4 with the smaller calves at the bred cow sale next week.... breds/ cows with calves are bringing over $3,000 and these are out of synch with the rest that are due this spring....his cows and his decision... My open cow will get a 2nd shot and then go with her twins out to pasture and see if she gets straightened/cleaned out, and breeds back. I am not so upset about her being open... she will "lose 6 months" BUT.... there will be 2 calves to sell and although they are be smaller than a single to sell this year, it will be alot more income total than a single calf... so it will "pay" for her to get the extra few months hold over, considering what we figure it costs to keep a cow a year.
She is doing a pretty good job with the twins and they are the youngest calves that were out there anyway, so not surprising they are smaller.
Going to get some things done here...
Yesterday's crazy weather got crazier... it cleared off late afternoon, and then clouded up and we got another rain shower for about 2 hours last night from looking at the radar... It was starting to rain again at 11 or so...
It is sunny out this morning... 39 overnight. 60's today? Then rain again tomorrow... and possible snow, or ice or "who knows what" on Tuesday...
It looks to be an every other day thing for weather of some sort all next week. UGH....
Going in to pack the samples... DS is meeting with the guy coming to look at the steers at 9:30...
We discussed the weaning of these calves off the cows we preg checked while I was driving home last eve.... I/we hate doing it with crazy weather swings...stress on the calves makes them much more vulnerable to getting sick....(of course, if they had been moved before all the crappy weather we could have worked around the wet weather).... but decided that if the guy does not want to take the calves or offer enough for them....... we will move all the cows that are bred more than the 5 months...dry them off..... keep the 4 that are shorter bred and my open cow, with the calves as "nannies" and so all the calves will be at the barn to come in the barn for a week to get started on the silage... the cows need to be out in the field we want them in to calve, and out of the mud and mess... 25 big cows are just churning everything up into mud with the rain we have had....plus they do NOT need the silage they are eating in the barn this far along in their pregnancy...
If the guy does not buy the steers, we are weaning them off the late trimester cows and will hold until March and have about 40-50 to sell...from 450-650 lbs so several groups... These calves need to be off the cows.... He said he might sell the 4 with the smaller calves at the bred cow sale next week.... breds/ cows with calves are bringing over $3,000 and these are out of synch with the rest that are due this spring....his cows and his decision... My open cow will get a 2nd shot and then go with her twins out to pasture and see if she gets straightened/cleaned out, and breeds back. I am not so upset about her being open... she will "lose 6 months" BUT.... there will be 2 calves to sell and although they are be smaller than a single to sell this year, it will be alot more income total than a single calf... so it will "pay" for her to get the extra few months hold over, considering what we figure it costs to keep a cow a year.
She is doing a pretty good job with the twins and they are the youngest calves that were out there anyway, so not surprising they are smaller.
Going to get some things done here...
