Good Morning!--Chat thread

[amysflock]

Oh, I see, so they might be over the bawling by the time DH returns from his fun fishing trip out at the coast?! Figures!

Kitty, great idea about baking something for the neighbors! I'll do that today!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

You timed that one wrong! Why should DH get out of all the fun?

I figure it can't hurt.

 

[amysflock]

Darn it. I thought it was too quiet. Annabel must have figured out the fence is dead and is now quietly nursing on her mama. :*( I read that first calf heifers and their calves can be the hardest to keep apart during weaning. They're proving me right.

Come on, hardware store, open, open!

In other news, one of the breeders who delivered the new bull yesterday wants to buy T-Bone as a breeding bull! DH is missing the fun research of feeling out a price (two other local bull calves are listed for $1800, but both were shown last year...although one is out of a mama with a really bad udder), AND the weaning thing!

 

[wynedot55]

have a price in mind.an then ask them what their offer is.your a new breeder.so you dont want to over price your bull calf.id say $1200 to $1500 for your bull calf is fair.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Darn it. I thought it was too quiet. Annabel must have figured out the fence is dead and is now quietly nursing on her mama. :*( I read that first calf heifers and their calves can be the hardest to keep apart during weaning. They're proving me right.

Come on, hardware store, open, open!

In other news, one of the breeders who delivered the new bull yesterday wants to buy T-Bone as a breeding bull! DH is missing the fun research of feeling out a price (two other local bull calves are listed for $1800, but both were shown last year...although one is out of a mama with a really bad udder), AND the weaning thing!

She just wants momma.

Hopefully, once the fence is charged she will respect it.

Good luck getting the price you want.

 

[amysflock]

I can't figure out the fence...I don't think the ground is set up right. It works fine during spring, fall and winter, of course, when we have a lot of rain, but we've had a pretty good dry spell, and our rocky soil doesn't hold much moisture. I led T-Bone back out through the yard into the paddock to be with the herd. I'll have to try weaning again when the fence is fixed. Right now I need to focus on either figuring the fence out or praying hard that no one escapes the pasture between now and Thursday night when DH returns.

That $$ range sounds good, wynedot55. I was thinking maybe asking $1400, but need to think it through. Our breeder suggested $1100 but emailed me today to tell me he's been accused of underpricing, so he thinks that his figure should be our bottom end price.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

If you have trouble putting the ground rod down far enough you can dig a trench and lay it sideways. It's the amount of ground contact and not the depth that's really needed. I hope this makes sense.

 

[amysflock]

Crisis over! I finally got off my pitty pot, caught a moment when everyone was napping (and the bull deepest in the barn stall, with T-Bone and Sheila in front of him), tiptoed past everyone and locked the gate behind me, then quickly went around and locked the other, trapping them in the paddock.

I walked the fenceline with my pruning shears, cutting anything touching the hotwire, and found the culprit! The neighbor's barbed wire twisted around our hotwire and shorted it out! As soon as I untwisted it I got a 2000V shock! YAY YAY YAY!!!!

DH is off the hook for now, and I can rest easy tonight knowing everyone is safe in the pasture.

 

[Thewife]

All done raking for the day, and I didn't break anything!

But some moron that will remain nameless, went out to rake hay and forgot to put on sun screen!
Her arm is pretty darn red!
I think she should be banned from working on sunny days!
(and rainy and cloudy days too)


Amy what do you mean the DH is off the hook? He was off fishing when you reeeeeally needed him, that should be worth at least a nice dinner!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Glad you found the problem with the fence. Does that mean you're going to upset babies and their mommas again?

thewife, glad to hear your done raking for the day. Tell that nameless someone to use aloe or an ice pack on the sunburn and get it cooled down as it will continue to burn even though someone is out of the sun now.