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Got up to chilly temps.. down to 30 overnight. It is cloudy but forecast to clear off in a couple hours. Then the snow to start to come in and maybe start snowing here in the 6-10 a.m. range... Southwest Va will get the snow and icyness earlier... looks like we will be a mostly all snow event... still saying 4-8 inches here.
I am going in to get a couple of boxes of bottles, and put the bottles into racks as I take a couple empty boxes with me to this farm so we have places to put bottles so I can keep the numbers together... we put all the 7000 in one box, each of the number sequences.... 7100's, 7200's, etc in a separate box, so when I go to pack them at home in numerical order, I am only looking in 1 or maybe 2 boxes for the samples instead of having them scattered in 10 boxes... boxes hold 60 bottles so sometimes have, say the 7500's in 2 boxes.. As they calve out new heifers and cull the older cows, you get fewer and fewer of the 6000, 6100 etc., sequences and more of the higher numbers... so there are empty spaces in boxes that have fewer cows still milking in the lower numbers. I will double up and put 2 or more of the number sequences in a box of the lower numbers, where there are fewer of them... just makes packing at home later easier...
Plus I will need a couple racks of bottles for the Wed and Thursday herds if we test... so this gives me the bottles already racked up, some empty boxes to use at the 500 cow herd, and then when I get them packed in exact order and fill the boxes at home, the samples will fill the boxes to send and the empty boxes will be available for the bottles that are in the racks I normally use in the barn. The 500 cow herd I can use the bottles directly out of the boxes without them getting dirty/splattered with cow manure etc., but most farms there is not the room to spread out the boxes because the parlors are much "tighter" without extra space. Luckily this farm has extra space where we set up....
Time to eat something and get started on the list for today. Hoping the sun comes out and it warms up some to work on the poultry run... I will have to have help with the roof pieces...DS actually offered yesterday when he saw me out there, when he came to get the hay across the road... of course we all know how he says he will do things and then never gets it done. Will see about getting into another box to get a replacement panel for the one the termites/mice chewed up. Then see about getting a replacement piece of board made for it, for the next "run"... but want to get this one completely done in anticipation of getting the turkeys. If I don't like them then have it ready for the next project.
Then hopefully we can get the cow and calf moved up to the barn at the nurse cow pasture later on...
we'll see.
I am going in to get a couple of boxes of bottles, and put the bottles into racks as I take a couple empty boxes with me to this farm so we have places to put bottles so I can keep the numbers together... we put all the 7000 in one box, each of the number sequences.... 7100's, 7200's, etc in a separate box, so when I go to pack them at home in numerical order, I am only looking in 1 or maybe 2 boxes for the samples instead of having them scattered in 10 boxes... boxes hold 60 bottles so sometimes have, say the 7500's in 2 boxes.. As they calve out new heifers and cull the older cows, you get fewer and fewer of the 6000, 6100 etc., sequences and more of the higher numbers... so there are empty spaces in boxes that have fewer cows still milking in the lower numbers. I will double up and put 2 or more of the number sequences in a box of the lower numbers, where there are fewer of them... just makes packing at home later easier...
Plus I will need a couple racks of bottles for the Wed and Thursday herds if we test... so this gives me the bottles already racked up, some empty boxes to use at the 500 cow herd, and then when I get them packed in exact order and fill the boxes at home, the samples will fill the boxes to send and the empty boxes will be available for the bottles that are in the racks I normally use in the barn. The 500 cow herd I can use the bottles directly out of the boxes without them getting dirty/splattered with cow manure etc., but most farms there is not the room to spread out the boxes because the parlors are much "tighter" without extra space. Luckily this farm has extra space where we set up....
Time to eat something and get started on the list for today. Hoping the sun comes out and it warms up some to work on the poultry run... I will have to have help with the roof pieces...DS actually offered yesterday when he saw me out there, when he came to get the hay across the road... of course we all know how he says he will do things and then never gets it done. Will see about getting into another box to get a replacement panel for the one the termites/mice chewed up. Then see about getting a replacement piece of board made for it, for the next "run"... but want to get this one completely done in anticipation of getting the turkeys. If I don't like them then have it ready for the next project.
Then hopefully we can get the cow and calf moved up to the barn at the nurse cow pasture later on...
we'll see.
