Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

Funny you should say that @fuzzi ... we said the same thing that whatever went wrong we were lucky it happened where it did... not in the tunnel, in the pitch black, tight walls of the tunnel... we had lights in the car, but it was black in the tunnel.
No, no patience, and it was just stupid.... unless you HAD to be somewhere and that it was "life or death" type of thing... getting off to get an uber was just so stupid... What if we were up somewhere that there was not the convenience of the road, stores and intersection there... Why did they go on the ride to start with? I guess ought to be glad that they are spending their money on something that this company is trying to preserve... Did they hate who they came with so much that they couldn't sit and visit a little longer?
Oh well, whatever... I assume that they will give it bad reviews... and don't know if there will be any kind of concessions made or anything under the circumstances...

Well, we got some rain overnight... but total in the rain gauge was only .3..... so not much but a "sip" for the ground... This is like about 1/3 of what we normally we get and it has been like this for several months...

I am getting the samples packed to drop off when we go to son's dr appt. Paperwork done, computer stuff uploaded....
It is chilly out there. Was 42 to start. It is only up to 57 so very cool outside. Fall is here... even with the sun out.

 

[SageHill]

Yeah - when something like that happens, or stuck in traffic, or whatever that holds me up -- I say to myself perhaps there is a reason and it's keeping me from trouble. Sit back and breathe. So many are in such a rush, esp with the internet they've practically been programmed to go from one wreck to another at lightning speed.
Edit -- oh geeze do I remember my grandmother telling me to slow down when I was a kid??
OR slow down, you move to fast, got to make the morning last

 

[fuzzi]

Yeah - when something like that happens, or stuck in traffic, or whatever that holds me up -- I say to myself perhaps there is a reason and it's keeping me from trouble. Sit back and breathe. So many are in such a rush, esp with the internet they've practically been programmed to go from one wreck to another at lightning speed.
Edit -- oh geeze do I remember my grandmother telling me to slow down when I was a kid??
OR slow down, you move to fast, got to make the morning last

 

[farmerjan]

Tuesday morning... 41 overnight... we had a nice day yesterday... sun and a bit breezy... I wore a light sweatshirt for the trip to the dr office. DS decided to make it a combination trip... we normally go to the stockyard on the way home. It's a small stockyard, 100-500 head any week... but the prices are often close to the rest around here... sometimes can find a deal. We had that cow that had the bloated steer that died a year ago, was bred back, had a small calf and it was found dead out at pasture a couple weeks ago. Not a bad cow, but obviously she is not even paying her way, let alone making money. He brought her home from pasture with the couple of bred cows that needed to come back and the couple of big calves that we weaned off too. Anyway, she was going to get sold... and he decided to take her to that sale on the way through, not keep feeding her... she had been with the bull so was probably bred back... her cull value was about 1500 at the current cull cow market prices. So, figuring that she would bring probably as much there as anywhere, we took her. Dropped her off at the sale, went on to the dr appt then came on back. Ate lunch at the sale barn little lunchroom.... walked through and looked at calves/stock for sale...
The cow got offered in an early pen, they decided to sell her by the head as exposed to the bull, which was 100% correct... and she brought a little bit more than DS expected, so that was good. Maybe she will go on to raise a calf for someone else somewhere... she got bought by a dealer that buys alot of stuff there...
So on to the calves... They were off a bit. Had last Friday's market report that had just been posted and the prices last Friday were still up. So we watched quite a few, a few nice calves... then they brought in a "farm group"... so all one owner.... and they were 530 lb average BULL calves... but really nice. DS had said how nice they were back in the barn earlier.. He wound up buying them, and then bought one more single that was just about the same size. Paid less than he had in some of the ones he bought about 3 weeks ago.... that are smaller...
We will give them several days, but he said they went right to the bunk last evening... they are supposed to be weaned and it showed that they were very comfortable with coming in the barn to the bunk... We will give them this week to get comfortable, make sure none get sick, they are on a preventative antibiotic in the feed that we always do now when bringing in any new animals; and then work them through the chute over the weekend and make them steers and give some vaccs. Having them all (except the one) from one farm, means alot less "mixing" together several different farm germs and such....
These will be put together with our steers, make a couple groups of steers to sell I think... and unless the world collapses, we ought to make a bit on them and only have them for about 30-60 days...backgrounded, on feed, vacc, worked to make them steers.... ready to go.
I asked if there were any heifers from that same farm... I would be very interested in raising some from there for replacement heifers... the bull calves we got are really nice and uniform. He said that he was told the guy only brought in the bull calves and 1 heifer that was not very good. Maybe he has some at home to sell. DS is going to talk to the guy who works there, who told DS about these calves when he was looking at them... said they came off a farm near where he lives and the guy has nice cattle... Never know... might find some new, unrelated nice heifers to raise up... might not...
Part of the "game" of farming...

So, I have the bottles all ready for this afternoon, reports printed to drop off at another farm, list of a couple of errands to run going through town... some groc to pick up along the way also.
DS said he might mow some of the last hay we need to make so that it can get baled by the weekend. It is supposed to be nice pretty much all week even though chillier. Then next week is looking like some rain/showers all next week on the future forecast. We all know that can change... but better to have this stuff done while it is calling for dry this week.

So ready to go out the door and do chickens/turkeys... and no, the coop is not off the trailer yet... got to go feed the "13" at the pasture, check the one heifer still not fresh, who did not look like it will be for another week at least.... then come back get the outback and head to town and to work without having to rush today. Don't have to be there until 5, and won't get home until 10-11 p.m.

 

[farmerjan]

Oh, one more thing... although this is a part of @canesisters journal discussions over her kind heart wanting to help the disabled buzzard she found on the road... I don't want to clutter her thread again...

It was rather interesting that yesterday at the stockyard, there was a notice posted on the bulletin board... VDACS which is the official dept for Ag in Va, was issuing this notice. It seems that there has been a die off of some of the Mexican Black Buzzards... and with that, they have been testing them to find out why. They have discovered evidence of the VIRULENT AVIAN FLU virus in these buzzards... I am not sure which variety it is ... like the H1N1 or some number... But the notice was to warn all farmers of caution with them hanging around anywhere there might be poultry. The avian flu virus is what causes all the poultry house depopulations, causes all our poultry shows to be shut down... puts all the free range chickens and backyard flocks on the radar of the state and them wanting to regulate our backyard flocks... They advised for anyone with poultry to be especially aware of the buzzards and to not allow contact with their poultry. To not handle any dead and to dispose of them through incineration...

So, please, anyone with chickens, be vigilant... these avian flu strains are really bad... and we know they are in some of the waterfowl populations, especially the migrating ones... now it is in these miserable buzzards. We have them hanging around the farm this time of year... they seem to gather in the fall and I have counted 10-40 at a time in groups. We try to discourage them to fly off elsewhere... plus the worry about calving cows right now.

 

[SageHill]

Geeze - I didn't even think of that. Dead birds around here are tested often. Though mostly crows and ravens. Still avian flu is nothing to mess with.

 

[Baymule]

It stands to reason they would be carriers. They eat dead things. So now is there a bounty on their black heads? Stop the spread of Avian Flu!! Shoot 10 black head vultures today!

 

[canesisters]

Oh, one more thing... although this is a part of @canesisters journal discussions over her kind heart wanting to help the disabled buzzard she found on the road... I don't want to clutter her thread again...

It was rather interesting that yesterday at the stockyard, there was a notice posted on the bulletin board... VDACS which is the official dept for Ag in Va, was issuing this notice. It seems that there has been a die off of some of the Mexican Black Buzzards... and with that, they have been testing them to find out why. They have discovered evidence of the VIRULENT AVIAN FLU virus in these buzzards... I am not sure which variety it is ... like the H1N1 or some number... But the notice was to warn all farmers of caution with them hanging around anywhere there might be poultry. The avian flu virus is what causes all the poultry house depopulations, causes all our poultry shows to be shut down... puts all the free range chickens and backyard flocks on the radar of the state and them wanting to regulate our backyard flocks... They advised for anyone with poultry to be especially aware of the buzzards and to not allow contact with their poultry. To not handle any dead and to dispose of them through incineration...

So, please, anyone with chickens, be vigilant... these avian flu strains are really bad... and we know they are in some of the waterfowl populations, especially the migrating ones... now it is in these miserable buzzards. We have them hanging around the farm this time of year... they seem to gather in the fall and I have counted 10-40 at a time in groups. We try to discourage them to fly off elsewhere... plus the worry about calving cows right now.

Yeah, I saw a post or two about that after I disposed off it.
I've got to admit that I thought it was 'funny' that after talking to several wildlife rehab folks that night plus a few animal control people that night and the one who showed up to get it.... no one mentioned anything about that.

 

[SageHill]

Yeah, I saw a post or two about that after I disposed off it.
I've got to admit that I thought it was 'funny' that after talking to several wildlife rehab folks that night plus a few animal control people that night and the one who showed up to get it.... no one mentioned anything about that.

Wow. Now that you mention that --- around here the county would've done a necropsy on it - to rule out or in Avian Flu.

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, I saw a post or two about that after I disposed off it.
I've got to admit that I thought it was 'funny' that after talking to several wildlife rehab folks that night plus a few animal control people that night and the one who showed up to get it.... no one mentioned anything about that.

SHHHHHH........... be vewy vewy quiet..........