Well, I don't have the cow yet... but pretty sure I am going to get her... Things going to happen there at the farm this month... monthly dairy sale at the stockyard is 28th... so most of what he is splitting will be going there because brother is not interested in the milk cows, just "his half".... things are getting a little ugly I guess. Farm will be down to milking half of what he is now...
Hoping that I can just get a few more calves and get them all started on her at the same time... hoping she will co-operate also...
Fed the bottle and he is smart enough to stay in the barn out of the rain... he's in with the weaned steer calf that caught in the hay feeder a month ago... the leg has gotten infected so having to give shots every couple days... so moved him up there since there is a small head catch to use... leg is open and draining so that is good... he is getting used to putting his head in the head catch where I am feeding the grain.... tomorrow is 1st shot up there... he got the other one at the head catch at the barn the other day... wouldn't be so big a deal, but oxytet burns, so he is not going to like the shots... and vet said that will actually permeate into the bones so the infection can't get into the bone... if it was anything else it wouldn't be so bad cause it wouldn't "burn".... I am going to start closing the head lock on him (after the shot tomorrow) every time he goes in to eat grain so it is not a big deal... right now I was training him to "where" he was going to get grain...
Went to DS house to give dog his shot and some canned food he is feeding, trying to get him to put on a little weight... DS and GF went to NC to get a pickup bed she bought for her truck because her sister backed into her truck and bent it up a bunch.... sister is paying for it naturally... but they found one that is almost perfect... Dodge is known for rust in the beds... and it is the same color as a bonus... 4-5 hours down and same back so all day trip... nothing to do here in the rain anyway.
I did a "bad thing"... I texted farm and said I had some cows out and would not make it to the farm in time to test.... Yeah we had cows out... just not today.... I just did not feel like going to test in this wet... especially to have to set up meters and such... so I am not going.....I will have to make it up....
The farm that called to cancel testing the "morning of the scheduled test day"...last week..... texted me to see what I have available this week... well, between scheduled testing Mon and Tues afternoons, ....plus helping get the cows moved on Tuesday during the day, from the aug co pasture to the barn.... cow sale Wed that we will leave here by 4 or so....and I AM going to go to it.... Testing the 500 cow herd Thursday, then the vet check on Friday for these 40+ cows... I don't have anything available this whole week... and if I am fair, I should reschedule todays farm that I cancelled, for next Sat....
Got to get the steer in at snyder's on Sat or Sun (17 or 18)for butcher on Monday, 19th...... farm scheduled for Mon aft 19th... dr appt early tues morning and annual cattle assoc dinner Tues eve... I could do him Sun eve 18th or he will have to wait for Wed eve 21st... Thurs, 22nd, DS has dr appt in Blacksburg as make up for the one the dr cancelled back before Christmas when he (dr) was sick.... and I want to go to Rural King while we are there... I think they are doing some other shots in neck at this appt so DS will need me to drive anyway...
I am getting ready to eat something, now... The rain is letting up and should be mostly moving out of the area... Not that it is going to dry up or anything very fast... I am just glad to be in and not having to push...
Taking a day off because you felt like it? Oh No! Like we haven't all done that some time or another. After as busy as you are and having been sick for so long, I don't think it was a "bad thng" at all.
