Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We only knew the cat was there because another lady getting ready to pull out of the parking lot saw it and called to Teresa.

Besides the usual vitamins, we are both taking a pill that is called Immune Active that Teresa's Nurse Practitioner really likes. She is really holistic and surprisingly, our son in laws Father recommends the same thing. He is a Pharmacist at a hospital in California and according to him, they are using it out there.. Quertcetin, NAC, zinc, EGCG, and vitamin C. I have no idea what a couple of those things are I'll take Teresa's word for it.

 

[farmerjan]

The CDC also quit counting influenza deaths long before the season ended.... like before early April this year, when they used to count them until May. They even announced that. And how many of the "covdi-19" deaths were actually other things that the person also caught the virus and it exacerbated the death? Since MANY (not all) of the serious cases, and deaths are due to people with many other compromising issues, you cannot blame c-19 alone. Several states have also done some "readjusting of their numbers" of the covid deaths. Because they get paid more for them from Medicare, they are claiming everything is a covid death. That has been shown in several states.

@Mike CHS there are a couple of different ImmuneActive ones listed when I searched. What is the company that makes them?

 

[Mike CHS]

@Mike CHS there are a couple of different ImmuneActive ones listed when I searched. What is the company that makes them?

The maker is Metagenics. Cathy had been trying to order them for a couple of months before this all started so evidently the supply is less than the demand.

 

[farmerjan]

The maker is Metagenics. Cathy had been trying to order them for a couple of months before this all started so evidently the supply is less than the demand.

Thanks. I am going to look into it. I saw a couple other brands when I was searching....

 

[Mike CHS]

We brought the ewes in again this morning to check condition and pull fecals on a couple that we haven't done in awhile. The 6 that we pulled last week were clean except for one that had a single egg. We did hooves on a half dozen of them then walked them back to another paddock. We showered and was going to eat some lunch but since I was going to do a batch of gumbo for dinner, I went ahead and made it for lunch.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had 7 more fecal samples to look at today but decided after doing three of them that we will wait a couple of weeks and pull some random samples since everything we checked had zero eggs except the one I mentioned earlier and she had a single egg in her sample.

Putting the ewes up in the chair to do hooves, I checked my #54 girl pretty close and I'm betting she is already pregnant so either I didn't pull Max soon enough or he got her through the fence. She was barely at breeding weight last season to the point that we almost didn't breed her but she weighed in at 142 pounds and is in prime condition now. She is about as tame as you can want and her dam is exactly the same.

 

[farmerjan]

If their condition is good they will breed back faster than you believe. I have a couple of first calf heifers that I think are bred back.... 30-45 day calves on them. Hadn't pulled the bull out yet which we should have,, back in March but with my surgery and then recovery and then the virus crap, things just got busy and here it is June and he should have been out for a 3 month break. He was going to go back in and breed them after the first of July, May as well leave him in there and get out some of the bred ones, and then pull the calves off the ones that calved last fall and give the cows a break before they start again in the fall. Most are in pretty good shape except 2 that have a several sucking off them. They need a break from the calves.

 

[Mike CHS]

If their condition is good they will breed back faster than you believe.

This ewe stays in prime condition all year so evidently she was ready. We are letting the ram in next week so we will just have one earlier than planned.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I've been meaning to ask ya about the red crabgrass and your thoughts on your pro&cons on it?.....also, if ya have sown anything else lately?....

 

[farmerjan]

Great results on the fecals. The rotations you are doing are certainly working out well. Plus you are not overgrazing and that is one way to get a higher concentration of worms.... they will go up on the stems and often in the bottom 6 inches.... so if the grass isn't "eaten down to the roots" there is less chance of the animals picking up the larvae off the lower stems.