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Tuesday, 2 pm. I got up, went to pool PT and had a good day. SUN IS OUT ......BEAUTIFUL...... light breeze today but not near as much as yesterday. But that wind yesterday did help to get the ground a little dried off the top. It got down to 27 last night so ground was hard this morning. Then the sun has made it "greasy" on top.... but the sun looks and feels GOOD!!!!!
Well, calves aren't going to the sale until Friday morning. DS is still bringing them back to the barn Thursday. I got the paper for the pasture so he knows how many he needs to make sure there is. He did say he found a dead calf, small one. There were 4 cows put there that had been diagnosed open... and they were young cows, so they got put "back with a bull" there... with their calves that are now pretty big.... Well there must have been at least 2 that were short bred..... one has a nice little calf about 2 weeks old now, and then he found another dead one. Might have been born in the real crappy weather as he was feeding enough for 4-5 days at a time because it was so hard to get in and out with the truck...... So we will try to figure out who had it.... everyone had a calf when they went in there and the one with the new little calf has a big calf there too. But DS said that he has not seen the big calf around her so she must've weaned him off on her own. I don't know who the other was off of.... we will be able to figure it out as she will be open obviously. Since the weather is most likely to blame, she will get another chance if she is a younger cow.
So, I had to change my regular PT appt that was on friday. And that means I will have to get up early too as he will want to haul the cattle early. I think that he is going to spend tomorrow afternoon to figuring out how he wants to move calves around in the barn where we are feeding them, so he can then put the calves to get sold, into the cleaner - less muddy - field for Thursday night. We'll still preg check Thursday afternoon, and those cows will get moved out back or somewhere for calving. I am sure that most of the calves are weaned off since the cows wouldn't be making much milk anyway.
I have an approx list of the heifer calves at the barn and there are at least 4 or maybe 6 that are mine. I am not sure about where a couple are right off. More than I thought. There are maybe 2 steers that are mine, one already at the barn off a cow we dried up, and the charl x that will be getting moved Thurs.... there are 2 charl x steer calves at that pasture so hoping they are matched as far as size, so can get sold as a pair. So, I am going to go down the hill in a bit and work on packing more stuff into boxes. I have 3 boxes to move out of the hallway here, and then I can bring another load up and put in the hallway.
So, going to get some things done. Sun sure has made it more desirable to do some stuff. I ordered some potatoes from Irish eyes... some different ones that I want to put in some rows to do some comparisons. I can get the Kennebecs and Yukon Golds and Red Pontiacs here.... so trying some others. They are expensive, but hope to be able to keep some for seed potatoes next year of any that I like. Fingerlings are not very available around here. I like the Kenebecs as a good standard potato, the Yukon golds do not keep as well but are good eating. And I have always liked red skinned potatoes.... they seem to have a nice flesh for mashed potatoes. And look nice in potato salad when you make it with skin on potatoes.
Going to try hard to make time for a garden this year..... Lots of seeds at the farm bureau... going to look and see what I have that I bought at closeout last year. I will probably try pre-sprouting some this year to make sure that they will grow. Got to get someone to till the place where I want to have the garden. I am seriously wanting a tiller for the tractor, for my own use, to be able to till when where I want to. Going to be fighting grass like @Mini Horses is reclaiming pasture for a garden and I will be reclaiming lawn that they have been mowing for the last 10 years.
Haven't heard from the guy about the boxwoods/yard cleanup. Just thought of that. Well, the moving this month is priority. And still haven't heard back from the friend on the fruit tree movings. I am not going to say anything else, again. I am tired of promises... I will pay for a mini digger and get DS to do it when he gets P.O.ed with them in the field. Seems like you can't get anyone to do what they say they will do. I will have to mention it in front of GF because he jumps when she says things....so I will play on it. Learning to how to fight my battles.....
He did ask when I was wanting to move stuff..... If it stays dry, he will be able to get up closer to the door and maybe get the big stuff moved in about 2 weeks. Then I can get the last little stuff done, and cleaning done. So I need to get things done this next week or so. I have about 75% of the stuff done, out of the house, I think. Looks like alot but most of the stuff left, is bigger stuff. And the freezers. Next week I get the new one for the house, then can move stuff out of the one and get it cleaned. Thinking maybe he can help me move it then I can empty out the next one and get stuff moved up here and that one cleaned out.
Got to get going.
Well, calves aren't going to the sale until Friday morning. DS is still bringing them back to the barn Thursday. I got the paper for the pasture so he knows how many he needs to make sure there is. He did say he found a dead calf, small one. There were 4 cows put there that had been diagnosed open... and they were young cows, so they got put "back with a bull" there... with their calves that are now pretty big.... Well there must have been at least 2 that were short bred..... one has a nice little calf about 2 weeks old now, and then he found another dead one. Might have been born in the real crappy weather as he was feeding enough for 4-5 days at a time because it was so hard to get in and out with the truck...... So we will try to figure out who had it.... everyone had a calf when they went in there and the one with the new little calf has a big calf there too. But DS said that he has not seen the big calf around her so she must've weaned him off on her own. I don't know who the other was off of.... we will be able to figure it out as she will be open obviously. Since the weather is most likely to blame, she will get another chance if she is a younger cow.
So, I had to change my regular PT appt that was on friday. And that means I will have to get up early too as he will want to haul the cattle early. I think that he is going to spend tomorrow afternoon to figuring out how he wants to move calves around in the barn where we are feeding them, so he can then put the calves to get sold, into the cleaner - less muddy - field for Thursday night. We'll still preg check Thursday afternoon, and those cows will get moved out back or somewhere for calving. I am sure that most of the calves are weaned off since the cows wouldn't be making much milk anyway.
I have an approx list of the heifer calves at the barn and there are at least 4 or maybe 6 that are mine. I am not sure about where a couple are right off. More than I thought. There are maybe 2 steers that are mine, one already at the barn off a cow we dried up, and the charl x that will be getting moved Thurs.... there are 2 charl x steer calves at that pasture so hoping they are matched as far as size, so can get sold as a pair. So, I am going to go down the hill in a bit and work on packing more stuff into boxes. I have 3 boxes to move out of the hallway here, and then I can bring another load up and put in the hallway.
So, going to get some things done. Sun sure has made it more desirable to do some stuff. I ordered some potatoes from Irish eyes... some different ones that I want to put in some rows to do some comparisons. I can get the Kennebecs and Yukon Golds and Red Pontiacs here.... so trying some others. They are expensive, but hope to be able to keep some for seed potatoes next year of any that I like. Fingerlings are not very available around here. I like the Kenebecs as a good standard potato, the Yukon golds do not keep as well but are good eating. And I have always liked red skinned potatoes.... they seem to have a nice flesh for mashed potatoes. And look nice in potato salad when you make it with skin on potatoes.
Going to try hard to make time for a garden this year..... Lots of seeds at the farm bureau... going to look and see what I have that I bought at closeout last year. I will probably try pre-sprouting some this year to make sure that they will grow. Got to get someone to till the place where I want to have the garden. I am seriously wanting a tiller for the tractor, for my own use, to be able to till when where I want to. Going to be fighting grass like @Mini Horses is reclaiming pasture for a garden and I will be reclaiming lawn that they have been mowing for the last 10 years.
Haven't heard from the guy about the boxwoods/yard cleanup. Just thought of that. Well, the moving this month is priority. And still haven't heard back from the friend on the fruit tree movings. I am not going to say anything else, again. I am tired of promises... I will pay for a mini digger and get DS to do it when he gets P.O.ed with them in the field. Seems like you can't get anyone to do what they say they will do. I will have to mention it in front of GF because he jumps when she says things....so I will play on it. Learning to how to fight my battles.....
He did ask when I was wanting to move stuff..... If it stays dry, he will be able to get up closer to the door and maybe get the big stuff moved in about 2 weeks. Then I can get the last little stuff done, and cleaning done. So I need to get things done this next week or so. I have about 75% of the stuff done, out of the house, I think. Looks like alot but most of the stuff left, is bigger stuff. And the freezers. Next week I get the new one for the house, then can move stuff out of the one and get it cleaned. Thinking maybe he can help me move it then I can empty out the next one and get stuff moved up here and that one cleaned out.
Got to get going.