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Got a pic of the “calf” that was in the road...
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Mike CHS
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I'm not a cattle person but that seems to be a pretty much filled out calf. 
Holy cow! some "calf"! 
some "calf"! Mini Horses
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Shame he didn't show up month or so ago -- he could have serviced your girls 
decent guy there....was a calf, once.
decent guy there....was a calf, once.
Bruce
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Yeah that is a calf, just "big boned"
Baymule
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Nice looking bull.
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I thought y’all would enjoy that “calf.”
DH and I knocked lots off our to-do list this weekend. I was supposed to work today but ended up on call so we just got even more done.
Yesterday I made homemade pancakes for breakfast, then we ended up unloading two hay wagons of square bales with help from DH’s dad. I’m more responsible for the kids than anything since throwing them into the loft doesn’t work well with that back injury I had back in January.
DH and his dad also Brandon unloaded and sorted a gooseneck trailer of tin off of a roof that a coworker gave him.
We washed and blowed 3 steers with our “sidekick’s” help. She showed a steer and heifer from our farm at the fair this past year and bought a steer from us again. We didn’t have a heifer for her but went to look at one they found and brought her here to break. We worked with her heifer in the big chute as she isn’t on the same level as the steers. Two are still for sale. Several people supposed to come look this week.
One of the steers that is for sale.
Queenie and Jewel were just completely worn out from watching us wash and blow!
Put collars on all of our female goats that didn’t have them yet.
Cleaned out and put down shavings in the lean-to to move the weaned calves out there. DH used the tractor for the majority but he and I had to fork/shovel the edges. He also tore out the pig pen that used to be down there.
We also did some practice walking with Sparkle and CeCe. DD1 is very interested in showing them.
Our kids were filthy by the end of the day!
In other news for yesterday, Sidekick’s grandfather bought 8 of my laying hens from my overcrowded pen. Just couldn’t get anything finalized to get them more space. Sidekick also took home my bottle kitten. I’ll miss her but she will have a great home and that puts us down to 9 cats. She brought us some zucchini bread from her first attempt making it and it was yummy. Her dad recently had knee surgery so hasn’t been coming over too but sent some ribs he’d made over for DH.
Today we put down two bales of straw in the chute pen to get it ready for the next round of weaning. After this set is done, we will clean it out with a borrowed skid steer and put down lime and then sawdust.
I relocated five chickens in two different pens to an outside pen. Two were Cuckoo Marans and had been set separated prior as I caught them picking on the others and in a moment of anger, pitched them in a mature pen. One lost a large portion of the skin on the back of her neck, feathers and all. Needless to say, I felt bad, caught them both, doctored her back to health, and attempting to reintegrate properly in a different pen. The other three were Buff Orpingtons. They are going to be in with a rooster we call “Henry.” He is an Americauna/Swedish Flower Hen Cross so I’m hoping for some interesting colored eggs if I can get my bator running or a broody to set.
Went to DH’s brother’s to give shots to 2 cows and a calf that needed vaccines and ended up getting the trailer to load them up and do it here in the big chute then took them home. That was a lot of loading and unloading kids!
Built a temporary barbed wire/electric fence in the front pasture to protect the wrapped bales. We then ran a hot wire from the shop to the front pasture since the underground one shorted out last year and we haven’t had a chance to rebury a new one properly. Cleaned up a barbed wire mess in the front pasture from Otis trying to get closer to the cows when they cycled.
Sorted out two cows and their calves to ship to market tomorrow. Reagan is my brother’s and he doesn’t have time to be out here anymore and has asked that we ship her. The other is Abby Jane and she’s the one that didn’t make milk well this year. Both have been bred back by the bulls we’ve had around so will be sold as such. The two bull calves will probably end up in someone’s feedlot. We weaned the remaining four calves into the chute pen. Three of the four are the heifers we are retaining. Mya (Sidekick’s bred heifer) got her vaccination booster and fly tags too. Everything is ready to move the cows across the driveway to the front pasture later in the week. They’ll be thrilled about some nice grass and we won’t have to feed hay!
Somewhere in there DD1 worked on and finished several things for school.
Dad is getting out of the house for short periods of time and his pain is better controlled. DD2 seems to be doing well on her antibiotic. No more vomiting since Thursday morning.
DH and I knocked lots off our to-do list this weekend. I was supposed to work today but ended up on call so we just got even more done.
Yesterday I made homemade pancakes for breakfast, then we ended up unloading two hay wagons of square bales with help from DH’s dad. I’m more responsible for the kids than anything since throwing them into the loft doesn’t work well with that back injury I had back in January.
DH and his dad also Brandon unloaded and sorted a gooseneck trailer of tin off of a roof that a coworker gave him.
We washed and blowed 3 steers with our “sidekick’s” help. She showed a steer and heifer from our farm at the fair this past year and bought a steer from us again. We didn’t have a heifer for her but went to look at one they found and brought her here to break. We worked with her heifer in the big chute as she isn’t on the same level as the steers. Two are still for sale. Several people supposed to come look this week.
One of the steers that is for sale.
Queenie and Jewel were just completely worn out from watching us wash and blow!
Put collars on all of our female goats that didn’t have them yet.
Cleaned out and put down shavings in the lean-to to move the weaned calves out there. DH used the tractor for the majority but he and I had to fork/shovel the edges. He also tore out the pig pen that used to be down there.
We also did some practice walking with Sparkle and CeCe. DD1 is very interested in showing them.
Our kids were filthy by the end of the day!
In other news for yesterday, Sidekick’s grandfather bought 8 of my laying hens from my overcrowded pen. Just couldn’t get anything finalized to get them more space. Sidekick also took home my bottle kitten. I’ll miss her but she will have a great home and that puts us down to 9 cats. She brought us some zucchini bread from her first attempt making it and it was yummy. Her dad recently had knee surgery so hasn’t been coming over too but sent some ribs he’d made over for DH.
Today we put down two bales of straw in the chute pen to get it ready for the next round of weaning. After this set is done, we will clean it out with a borrowed skid steer and put down lime and then sawdust.
I relocated five chickens in two different pens to an outside pen. Two were Cuckoo Marans and had been set separated prior as I caught them picking on the others and in a moment of anger, pitched them in a mature pen. One lost a large portion of the skin on the back of her neck, feathers and all. Needless to say, I felt bad, caught them both, doctored her back to health, and attempting to reintegrate properly in a different pen. The other three were Buff Orpingtons. They are going to be in with a rooster we call “Henry.” He is an Americauna/Swedish Flower Hen Cross so I’m hoping for some interesting colored eggs if I can get my bator running or a broody to set.
Went to DH’s brother’s to give shots to 2 cows and a calf that needed vaccines and ended up getting the trailer to load them up and do it here in the big chute then took them home. That was a lot of loading and unloading kids!
Built a temporary barbed wire/electric fence in the front pasture to protect the wrapped bales. We then ran a hot wire from the shop to the front pasture since the underground one shorted out last year and we haven’t had a chance to rebury a new one properly. Cleaned up a barbed wire mess in the front pasture from Otis trying to get closer to the cows when they cycled.
Sorted out two cows and their calves to ship to market tomorrow. Reagan is my brother’s and he doesn’t have time to be out here anymore and has asked that we ship her. The other is Abby Jane and she’s the one that didn’t make milk well this year. Both have been bred back by the bulls we’ve had around so will be sold as such. The two bull calves will probably end up in someone’s feedlot. We weaned the remaining four calves into the chute pen. Three of the four are the heifers we are retaining. Mya (Sidekick’s bred heifer) got her vaccination booster and fly tags too. Everything is ready to move the cows across the driveway to the front pasture later in the week. They’ll be thrilled about some nice grass and we won’t have to feed hay!
Somewhere in there DD1 worked on and finished several things for school.
Dad is getting out of the house for short periods of time and his pain is better controlled. DD2 seems to be doing well on her antibiotic. No more vomiting since Thursday morning.
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Thank you! We bought what we could afford and didn’t pay over market for a single female. We bred up with bulls and semen from purchases to get our herd where it is today. It’s taken over 10 years but we have reached our goal of being able to raise our own calves for our kids to show and be competitive while maintaining a sound, functional animal.
