One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

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We have a show here in a few weeks and I bet she will be there; I will be sure and look her up just so I can put the name to a face. I'll let you know if she is showing or judging this year. I'm sure your animals will be great.
 

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Maurine had to take two days off this week because she worked so many hours last week. She is part time after all.

Which worked out well, she went and picked up 20 bales of fresh cut alfalfa this morning and is getting 20 bales of fresh cut oat hay this afternoon. We picked up 3 large round bales of coastal the last part of March and it is about gone. There was really nothing local grown available and I had to pick up 15 bales of timothy/orchard last week to make sure we had some.
It's been cool and wet and no one had been able to cut anything.

Hopefully, my normal hay guy will have some round bales of oat hay soon, and I'll get 6 or so to last until some coastal is cut in late June.
 

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We have a show here in a few weeks and I bet she will be there; I will be sure and look her up just so I can put the name to a face. I'll let you know if she is showing or judging this year. I'm sure your animals will be great.

I hope so. They should have a good clip, we have a big show Memorial Day weekend :)
 

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Got 20 bales of alfalfa hay yesterday, and 15 bales of oat hay. Hopefully, my main supplier was able to cut this week and I'll get some round bales of oat or oat/rye blend.
We have a show and milk test Memorial Day weekend, so really timely getting the alfalfa.
It's like rocket fuel for my milkers.

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that's great! The person we get our hay from has been watching and waiting to cut- may have to offer to help when they bale ;)

when you feed the alfalfa to all your does or just the ones who have kidded and/or milking?
 

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that's great! The person we get our hay from has been watching and waiting to cut- may have to offer to help when they bale ;)

when you feed the alfalfa to all your does or just the ones who have kidded and/or milking?

It's good for the milkers, and it's good for the kids.
We only have a few that don't need it, but it's going to be hard to separate them. Hopefully, they won't get too fat.
 

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that's great! The person we get our hay from has been watching and waiting to cut- may have to offer to help when they bale ;)

when you feed the alfalfa to all your does or just the ones who have kidded and/or milking?

Like I said, this week was a good week for cutting. Today is the 7th straight day without rain.
But, there is a tropical storm going to make landfall sometime Saturday night or Sunday somewhere between North and South Carolina.
There are a number of different tracks it may take. Depending upon the path, we may get soaked, or very little.
 

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I heard about that on the news- hopefully just the right amount of rain!

we have had rain off and on here all week- suppose to get some tonight and then sunny tomorrow and rain again Sunday...never can tell.

the only doe that we worry about getting too fat is Maggie- we can give alfalfa to the other 2 does when they all are separated out at feeding time- they just don't get a lot then since they cant have it all the time.
 
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