Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

Sunday.... sunny, started out at 26 up to the low 50's and probably going to hit 60's but there is a breeze so not too warm.

Bad day yesterday.... DS called and said a neighbor called and it looked like a cow trying to calve. I was loading meters and stuff for the testing. Went up to the pasture, he had called another friend when he didn't get me right off.... they said they didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but hadn't gone in the field... just had binocs looking.... someone said that there might have been a dog in there.... So, I went in, riding through the field..... one of the new bought heifers has a prolapse. She is laying down, I am not going to make her get up but it looked uterine. So, I called DS told him the vet needed to come out.... he was all hot and mad... I said point blank, this is beyond my capabilities. So he called the one vet, and I went back to the house, finished getting my work stuff.... called him and asked if I needed to stay home and call the farmer... who would understand a prolapse situation.... he said no, go to work. So half way to work, he calls and is really mad because no one has called him back from the vets after 45 min..... I said that I could call the other vet (that I prefer) and said please.... so I called them, of course this is all after hours so you get the answering service.... and they will relay the call.... to the vet on call. So, I get to work, get the stuff set up in the barn, and he texts me & says that the one vet finally got back to him.... I test and he finally texts me and says that they got it put back, she is in rough shape.... he found the calf which I hadn't found because I didn't have much time to look for anyway, and it sucked the heifer while she was lying down so got colostrum... then she got up and it sucked some more...
He did say that "my vet" did call him back right after he had heard from the first vet.....
Let's hope that the last 3 bought ones, calve okay and soon....
He and GF were out last evening and went by and checked the heifer.... she died.... so they got the calf and took it to the barn. Called and asked if maybe my jer/hol nurse cow would take the calf? I said, try her.... I had just sold her 3 calves on Friday... so about 36 hours since she had been nursed.... he got her in the barn, gave her some grain, and the calf went on her and she really didn't seem to mind. So the calf got some more milk.... I said that I would go up this morning and get her in for the calf. Bless her, she ate grain and only once picked up her leg to halfway kick/push the calf away.... the calf got on 3 quarters and I know got 2 nursed out....

DS bitched about the "dam#" hol milk cow when we brought her to the barn with the calves from the nurse cow field, because she tends to get in the way when you are sorting cattle, having to make her go back cuz she is always at the gate when you don't want her there.... but here she is taking care of "his" calf so far.....

I have another jer/hol cross first calf heifer I was going to maybe take to the farm where my other ones are... she is getting quite an udder and is due most anytime.... I think I will try to get this calf on her with her own when she calves and just let her raise the 2.... if she will take it. I have no idea if she will....
If not, then good old "801" will get to raise this calf..... I promised her a rest after these last 3, she had gotten thin this winter, without getting much grain all last year with the ankle/boot/rehab crap.... I am not even sure if she is bred back yet.... she is supposed to get checked.... but she will tolerate it once it gets some milk through it's system... she kept smelling it's butt and then looking at me as if to say, this is not mine and you promised me a break......
Going up to again check the cows at the nurse cow field... if she has has calved, I will probably call DS to come help get her and the new calf in the barn lot, then bring the black one up too.... I can keep the calves in the lot and let the cow in to feed them for a few days/week until she accepts them.... I can manage one cow with the knees.... and if she will let them both nurse, then she will be able to take them out and I will grain her once a day to keep her coming in to keep a check on them. FIRST things first... get her calved and in the pen....
Also have to get the sucking cow out of there with her calf... she is going to doug's barn to the small lot with just her and her calf in there until she gets sold....so she can't keep sucking other cows....

So he lost a $1300 heifer, and the $300 vet fee for the prolapse..... but so far we have the calf. Nice bull calf.... a little big for a heifer so even though she had it on her own, and then she prolapsed, she might have gotten messed up inside or been bleeding internally when she prolapsed... it is bigger than the ones our easy calving bull puts on the ground.... HOPEFULLY there won't be too many problems with him by at least getting the colostrum from the heifer....

DS says he thinks it is a lifter in the car making the little tapping noise... not as disastrous as it could be.... put some additive and told me to run a little heavier oil.... will see if it will help. Ran a truck for 4 years with a bad lifter.... so it is useable....

Going in to get something to eat, then going back up to the pasture to check the heifer... I might see if I can get her in now and just have to feed her in there for a few days so she calves in there....she is close..... hate to have to haul water and hay to her since there is no hay in the barn from when they got into the feed room & ate and tore everything apart.... need to see if we are going to preg check those other 5 or 6 still at doug's barn that the calves came off of........

At least with the sun, and the wind, the ground is drying good on top so tomorrow should not be a problem to get the freezer delivered and in the house. Then I can get it plugged in, and work on getting the contents moved and another one cleaned out at the house....
PT at 8 in the morning....

 

[Baymule]

Wow, sorry about the cow, but at least you were able to save the calf. Good thing you had the nurse cow. Haha, I guess your DS isn’t griping about your cow now.

 

[Mike CHS]

The best part of all this is that BJ is finally getting excited about the sheep, going to auction and wanting to learn more. He now sees why I want better ewes, registered ewes and is on board with that.

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I'm glad to see him getting excited. That should help in more than a few ways. Our sale barn also has a sale at the end of the season that is registered sheep only and is by invitation. They only invite producers that have a history with them.

 

[farmerjan]

I am just going to post this because I spent alot of time looking at, then researching this info. There are 2 different videos that need to be watched and LISTENED to about the whole COVID-19 situation.
banthis.tv/watch?id=60526699c9e6cc4a10a52dfb this is a Dr. Steve Hotze. There are several sites that call him a quack, he has a less than perfect standing on the LBGTQ... what ever all the initials are now.... But he is saying the same thing as many other doctors in America's Frontline doctors....
and Dr. Ryan Cole of Idaho that is a pathologist and immunologist and whatever else "ologist" ....he has several different references if you go on a search... Capitol Clarity has a you tube video... it is also referenced on Aletho News.... about "There is no such thing as Flu season, just low Vitamin D season....."
Both tout the lack of a healthy immune system, low levels of some critical vitamins..... AND the overall positive results in studies all over the WORLD on IVERMECTIN.......
Dr. Cole also goes into the whole "covid vaccine" is NOT a TRUE VACCINE.... by the CDC's own definition of a vaccine. And he gives a good slide show and talk about it.
AND how mRNA vaccines have been total failures in animal trials and how it super sensitizes your system to OVER REACT to future exposures to corona viruses. There are also many references to counter reactions and health related problems with these covid "vaccines", that are not true vaccines because they DO NOT PREVENT you from getting the disease.....
Put Dr Hotze down as a quack, call some of the ones that said early on, that this was a treatable disease LIKE THE FLU, some that are part of America's Frontline Drs..... but the irrefutable evidence keeps piling up that we have NOT been told the truth in order to keep us under the thumb and control of those that are trying to make us into more obediant sheeple.... there are hundreds of studies of MILLIONS of people in the European and African nations where Ivermectin has been PROVEN to stop this virus from replicating so that symptoms are often mitigated in 36 hours.

And even if you think they are all a little looney...... why are there continuing cases of people with blood clots and other problems showing up quickly after getting shots..... there have got to be some reasons.... it is not coincidence that this is happening in so many different places to random people.....

Remember how many drugs that were deemed safe that after several years of very heavy use that they were pulled because there were too many incidences of problems.....
We each should be allowed to make our own choice and not get all this flak for doing so.....

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't accepted the lies from the start of all of this. What settled it for us was a visit to our health care provider (that we have a lot of respect for) a couple of weeks ago. Teresa asked her if they were planning on getting the shot and the answer was 'none of us are'.

 

[farmerjan]

I haven't accepted the lies from the start of all of this. What settled it for us was a visit to our health care provider (that we have a lot of respect for) a couple of weeks ago. Teresa asked her if they were planning on getting the shot and the answer was 'none of us are'.

Thank you God .... from the mouths of sensible health care professionals.

 

[Mini Horses]

I have always felt a good immune system was the BEST defense for most any illness. Since I have had nothing but a couple days of runny nose in spring pollen season, for over 25 yrs, it was never my intention to get whatever "they" offered, it's been a mute point for me. Just my choice. Didn't even have to think about it. Never have had any flu shot, not starting now.

 

[farmerjan]

Going to head down the hill. I'm tired still.... Have to set the alarm for early to go to PT... and I have to do the cow and calf.....
The other one is still holding on but I don't know why. I am not sure about transferring this calf over now.... DS did her this afternoon and said she stood there at the gate talking to the calf.... and he just let them out in the little lot in front of the barn together and the calf went right over on her and she stood there..... I hate to take it away from her if she is bonding with it.... she is such a good dispositioned cow overall....
Guess I may have to find a couple calves to go on the other one when she has hers.....
I hope that 801 is only like 2-3 months pregnant.... she can have this one and then go dry later on for a fall calf.... gotta get her checked....got those others to preg check too.

It was a nice day today. Sunny, not as breezy so comfortable in a sweatshirt. Ground at pasture drying out on top nice. Got everything ready for them to bring the freezer tomorrow.... just have to put the seed potatoes back out from the hallway... it was 26 and then 24 last night so too cold to leave them out on the porch so I stuck them in the hallway. It is cooler there because I have the 3 doors closed off the hallway so no heat going out there and up the stairs in the upstairs hallway to be wasted. It stays in the downstairs rooms.... they all connect so I can keep the downstairs warmer without the hallway wasting the heat.
Took the meters out of the truck but will need 16 for Tuesday.... need the short hoses for that farm, this last one was the real long hoses.... took feed up to the nurse cow field and put in the bunk and couple of troughs for the calves inside the catch pen. The real bad wind took 3 sheets of the metal rooking off the barn there so DS will have to fix them..... asked him to not forget a fence board for the pen. He did not fix it the last time.... he had jim do it and he told him what needed to be done.... Said he has no idea why he did what he did there, as it was stupid like I said....and totally unnecessary to do the 2 boards around the bottom where maybe a 30 lb piglet could have wiggled out..... I just said that I was very worried that they would go through the junky pallet I had jury-rigged up there to keep them in when we were catching them to move them last week.

Glad they are gone..... I made more than I was expecting.... that will definitely give me the recliner here sometime this year. And pay for the tilling as soon as I find someone to do it.... then give me a chance to look at the possibility of one of my own.... paid off all the rest of the cc except the freezer as that is no interest for 12 months... I will ride that out a bit...make the payments I have to for a bit.....
Speaking of that, I just got a notice that Lowes had upped the limit on my CC..... it was 1,000 which was fine.... I was paying it off monthly.... got the DeWalt saw / drill set thing paid off... then put the freezer on it.... Well, I don't know what sparked this but they went from 1,000 limit to 4,000 ....didn't request an increase.... guess my credit score went up with paying everything off.... BUT WOW......looks good on my credit report too.... but I was floored. Don't have anything I want.... gives me a cushion for maybe doing the bathroom sometime in the next year....but I was speechless....

The new guy tried to call me about the tree/clearing/work one eve last week when we were doing cows. Saw the call late that night. No message.... no call back. I am going to call the other guy who said it would be about a month... I really think he just forgot to write it down.... I did call him and he was on another job but it was lunchtime. He has a chipper.... Want it done before the leaves get on the trees.....

Still no progress in getting the fruit trees moved. I am thinking that they are going to have to wait for the fall now.... except the 3 peach trees at the stone house.... he will cut them down if I don't get them moved.... they have buds for the flowers, so this year will be ruined....but gotta move them....

Called another moving guy.... left a message.... maybe?????? DS has been working on fencing when he can get help on Saturdays..... I can't help in the woods at all since I cannot walk halfway..... so I don't want to ask for too much here at the house.... plus he is so busy with her and the several kids/cousins etc....

Let's hope tomorrow is as nice as today....

 

[farmerjan]

@Mini Horses I have never gotten a flu shot or the pneumonia shot or the shingles shot.... not going to either..... I have a little cold/flu about once a year.... usually lasts 24-48 hours.... almost everytime it is when I am really tired out and pushing my hours.... plus getting wet and cold in the barn with the cows and stuff.... I just go to bed and rest and sleep it off....
My primary care physician, that I had to have for the ankle surgery for a reference for the record.... pushed that crap.... plus yearly mammograms and pap smears and this and that and the other.... I did get the tetanus booster, with working out around all the cattle and places to get puncture wounds and stuff....been 8-10 years probably since the last one....but NOT getting all that other crap. I will do what I HAVE to for the knee replacements, but not one thing more....
Now if I can just drop some weight....

 

[Baymule]

I read articles on ivermectin for Covid-from other countries. Ridiculous that we are subjected to all this BULLSHIRT on Covid. Yes, lots of people have died, but how many would die if given ivermectin, doxycycline, Vitamin D, and Zinc. We will never know. You can bet your sweet you know what there won't be any vaccine shots here.