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Friday morning... CHILLY 36 overnight... Sun's coming over the trees, that soon will not have any leaves left. Leaves have been changing, colors are not great due to the drought conditions. Many are turning brown and coming off the trees dried/dead rather than colored. Oh well...
Been a busy few days, have tested several farms... got a couple more already scheduled.. Sunday afternoon and the 500 cow herd next Wed... another dr appt for DS on Monday again.
Tested late Tuesday night... then another farm Wed eve. I spent a couple hours Wed, before going to test, helping DS scrape out the bottom of one of the silage feeder wagons... he was using a impact type thing with stiff metal brush thing to get off the corroded/rusted stuff so that he could get it painted... ACTUALLY getting this done AHEAD of needing these feeders...
. I was using a flat shovel to scoop stuff out, then the shop vac to get all the little stuff out... This was a bought feeder cart... and he had already done the other one... figure if he gets them painted and all they will last longer and not rust so bad...
He got the 10 heifers home from the neighbor's pasture... 1 in there has a weird dip in her back right about where her hips are... her tail head is high too... not a flat nice back.... when she is walking and when she stands a certain way... I told him "no way" to moving her to breed her with the other 9... she will get sold... Probably weighs in the 8-850 wt range...
So yesterday I packed the samples from the previous night's testing... got bottles and all to go test the farm yesterday afternoon... did the turkeys and chickens... and then I went to look at these heifers at the barn, so he can move them... Went from there after we looked them over, talked about what we were going to do... with the upheaval with Trump's comments about how "he saved the farmers".... and how the cattle market feeder future's prices hit the down limit again...
Got feed at the barn, then went to get the "13" in at pasture... and they came in like they have been since I have been feeding them there... and he came with the 9 to go out on that pasture... and bring the "13" back to the barn for us to look over... Originally there were 14, one is in the other field with the 18 bred ones that will get preg checked... of the original 14 there were 6 older and 8 younger... it is one of the older ones over in with the 18.... So, he loaded the 13 with no problem... the one that is a little high headed that I said needed to go was a little jumpy/nervous, but loaded pretty good... I left there to go to drop off the samples and then go on to work... he took them back to the barn and we will look through them but most will be getting sold... The plans are to go on and sell this Sat..... get them out of there, and the thinking is, the heifer prices have not seemed to suffer as much as the steer prices have from the upheaval in this past weeks' announcements and all this... Might try to go by the sale today to see how things look...
I worked on the computer work last night here because the milker had screwed up some of the ID numbers and I had to go back and CHANGE numbers back for over 30 calves... and you have to delete one in order to go back and then reassign the number to a different one... they got them wrong and so I had to like go "backwards".... it was a ROYAL PITA.... but I think I got it done... told them I would probably have to have them do it at the computer center today... but I worked on it backwards last night and got it done.. At least, I hope so... Was up until after 1 a.m..... couple more things are not recorded but I could do a scan so I can get the samples packed and sent out... then will get the information and fix it before I upload the test day information to the computer center... Samples will go out today... but won't get to the lab until Monday... so I have the weekend to get the last stuff fixed... I have to test Sunday aft... fairly close to there... so will run up there and get the couple things I need to fix it... and drop off the reports I have printed... and all their notebooks and stuff with their information.... and then close out the test day info and upload it to the processing center like normal..
Need to get the samples packed to go out...
So, I am going to go to the barn in a bit... DS is going to let me know when he is back there... we will look these heifers over, make a decision who is going, who is staying... and then I have to get the tractor and rake moved to the fields he cut... sorghum in one, hay in the other... and maybe start raking some of it later on when it warms up a bit... because tomorrow I won't be able to rake with going to the stockyard... unless I don't go and let him take them himself......I don't have to go but usually do.
Sunday I have to work so have to be gone by 2:30... that only leaves a couple hours to rake once the sun comes up and dries off any dew or frost...
Gotta get going...
Been a busy few days, have tested several farms... got a couple more already scheduled.. Sunday afternoon and the 500 cow herd next Wed... another dr appt for DS on Monday again.
Tested late Tuesday night... then another farm Wed eve. I spent a couple hours Wed, before going to test, helping DS scrape out the bottom of one of the silage feeder wagons... he was using a impact type thing with stiff metal brush thing to get off the corroded/rusted stuff so that he could get it painted... ACTUALLY getting this done AHEAD of needing these feeders...
. I was using a flat shovel to scoop stuff out, then the shop vac to get all the little stuff out... This was a bought feeder cart... and he had already done the other one... figure if he gets them painted and all they will last longer and not rust so bad...He got the 10 heifers home from the neighbor's pasture... 1 in there has a weird dip in her back right about where her hips are... her tail head is high too... not a flat nice back.... when she is walking and when she stands a certain way... I told him "no way" to moving her to breed her with the other 9... she will get sold... Probably weighs in the 8-850 wt range...
So yesterday I packed the samples from the previous night's testing... got bottles and all to go test the farm yesterday afternoon... did the turkeys and chickens... and then I went to look at these heifers at the barn, so he can move them... Went from there after we looked them over, talked about what we were going to do... with the upheaval with Trump's comments about how "he saved the farmers".... and how the cattle market feeder future's prices hit the down limit again...
Got feed at the barn, then went to get the "13" in at pasture... and they came in like they have been since I have been feeding them there... and he came with the 9 to go out on that pasture... and bring the "13" back to the barn for us to look over... Originally there were 14, one is in the other field with the 18 bred ones that will get preg checked... of the original 14 there were 6 older and 8 younger... it is one of the older ones over in with the 18.... So, he loaded the 13 with no problem... the one that is a little high headed that I said needed to go was a little jumpy/nervous, but loaded pretty good... I left there to go to drop off the samples and then go on to work... he took them back to the barn and we will look through them but most will be getting sold... The plans are to go on and sell this Sat..... get them out of there, and the thinking is, the heifer prices have not seemed to suffer as much as the steer prices have from the upheaval in this past weeks' announcements and all this... Might try to go by the sale today to see how things look...
I worked on the computer work last night here because the milker had screwed up some of the ID numbers and I had to go back and CHANGE numbers back for over 30 calves... and you have to delete one in order to go back and then reassign the number to a different one... they got them wrong and so I had to like go "backwards".... it was a ROYAL PITA.... but I think I got it done... told them I would probably have to have them do it at the computer center today... but I worked on it backwards last night and got it done.. At least, I hope so... Was up until after 1 a.m..... couple more things are not recorded but I could do a scan so I can get the samples packed and sent out... then will get the information and fix it before I upload the test day information to the computer center... Samples will go out today... but won't get to the lab until Monday... so I have the weekend to get the last stuff fixed... I have to test Sunday aft... fairly close to there... so will run up there and get the couple things I need to fix it... and drop off the reports I have printed... and all their notebooks and stuff with their information.... and then close out the test day info and upload it to the processing center like normal..
Need to get the samples packed to go out...
So, I am going to go to the barn in a bit... DS is going to let me know when he is back there... we will look these heifers over, make a decision who is going, who is staying... and then I have to get the tractor and rake moved to the fields he cut... sorghum in one, hay in the other... and maybe start raking some of it later on when it warms up a bit... because tomorrow I won't be able to rake with going to the stockyard... unless I don't go and let him take them himself......I don't have to go but usually do.
Sunday I have to work so have to be gone by 2:30... that only leaves a couple hours to rake once the sun comes up and dries off any dew or frost...
Gotta get going...
Hope your back is better.
