Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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So did the vet lance it? Just leave it be? Pics available? Glad you caught it and it's taken care of.
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Mike CHS
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I didn't take any pictures since it was late in the day when we got back home. The vet lanced it and flushed it then gave him penicillin along with the CDT booster. We will flush it every day for 5 days plus we are keeping him in a clean paddock with Thor for company. We probably could have lanced it but had no way to cut the hair in the area and it was close enough to his eye that I wasn't willing to risk it. I've had that boy too long to take chances with something like that.
misfitmorgan
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Glad to hear it wasnt anything to major.
What are your plans for the ag program, I didnt see a post actually saying what your doing. I gather something with an addition onto the barn?
What are your plans for the ag program, I didnt see a post actually saying what your doing. I gather something with an addition onto the barn?
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Mike CHS
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We will be adding a roof over our handling equipment. It will run on the end of our building and cover the area that will be 30'x14'.
greybeard
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I'd love to have my handling/working pen covered but at my age not going to go to the expense. I sometimes have to pen some up for awhile, and they can turn the place into a muddy area pretty quick, and a roof would help prevent that.
Tenn and Ky both have some pretty good cost share programs.
Tenn and Ky both have some pretty good cost share programs.
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Mike CHS
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They do. We jumped through all of the needed hoops to get the 50% cost share. If you didn't they would cover 25% but it only took a 4 day course to meet the requirements.
CntryBoy777
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Definitely time well spent.....
greybeard
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Do you have to complete CEUs farther down to line to stay in some kind of compliance or is it a once and done thing?
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Mike CHS
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There are quite a few things you can do to accumulate points and it is ongoing. We did the Master Ruminate Producer program this year and it is do again in just under three years to stay eligible. They have a series of training events going on now through February but it's all driven toward food and fruit production which doesn't do anything for us. I meant to mention also that there is a limit to the amount of $ you can get. Our project this time will pay up to 50% of the total but the max the state will reimburse is $3,500.
