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Did you ever get that bg coop you bought moved to your place?
You can buy those grooved pieces at Lowes for the corrugted panels to fit on when roofing.
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@Ridgetop .... NO... the big coop is still not moved... I am trying not to blow my top over it... and with my truck needing DS to fix/work on the wheel situation... I have got to just bite my tongue right now.. That is the one I was referring to, "coop and run"....
The pieces for the corrugated roof panels to fit on... are not what I need... it is a piece of wood that the wavy roof piece fits into... it goes on the top of the panel ... this is special made for this particular poultry run... I have some of the wavy pieces to go under the metal roof sheets...
I did not get as much done today as I had thought. It was nasty chilly and damp with the fog...
Packed the samples to take to UPS, put in the car...
I went out and carried water and fed the cornish hens and the NH pen...
Got the several bags of stuff for the dumpster in the car... Got my list so I wouldn't forget anything...
Stopped at the dumpsters, went to town, dropped samples at UPS to go out tomorrow... one less thing to worry about when we are busy for the vet tomorrow.
Went to Walmart, got grapes, banana's, a couple of other things I thought of not on the list... looked in the outdoor/garden dept but none of the plastic hose "repair kits" ... nothing much interesting new there...
Went to Lowes and got the flat "plate" reinforcing pieces to use on the pen, got one nice sized T and then a few just flat ones... I have lots of L shaped ones to use on corners...both 90 degrees and over the ends of the 90 degree joints....I pick these things up when I see them in the clearance aisles... get them for less than half... then have them when I need them.... but the L shaped ones don't help in the middle of the flat boards on the side stretch....Plus metal keeps going up... even the little pkgs of the ones I got were expensive... Found the ends for the heavy duty extension cord, to repair that where I accidentally cut it with the mower...... got 2 more bundles of the 2x2's so I can add a couple to the wire roof top so I can put the vinyl on without it sagging.. the wire tops are like 4x6... with 1 board down the middle... Fine even to add a roof piece that is rigid... but the vinyl is not rigid...I want to add 2 more, half way on each side of the existing one.. just to give the vinyl something more to lay against... The wire is on the inside of the pen so nothing flat on the outside... vinyl sags a little on each side of the 2x2 that is there... this will just hold it up better off the wire... not essential, but I was there... and will want to put them on the 2 wire panels for this pen I have halfway done... The one's already up, I will have to cut to length and then get up on a ladder and add them.... but since these panels are basically all the same, I can precut them all and then add... not like I have to cut each one to different lengths.
Then went to TSC, 1/10th mile up the road... and did find 1 set of the plastic hose repair male and female ends... also they had some other "shut off" pieces and 2 y's that were heavy plastic (think they are actually a type of vinyl) that were marked down... so grabbed them... the packaging is different on the new ones and they are naturally "more costly".... I also got 2 cans of pyrethrin bug/wasp spray that were marked WAY down.....
So I took my time and there were not alot of people out shopping so that was good.
Finally got home and unloaded things. Had to put my sweatshirt on... I wore a long sleeved T shirt all day... The breeze had gotten up and it was a bit "cool"..
Filled the bird feeders since it is chilly again and not much is out yet for them to eat.....
Got the mower and the cart, went and got the big dog crate and brought it back to the house. Put in on the bottom and put the 5 chicks in their "crate" on the top... figure the leghorn did not need to be disturbed as much... Got some shredded paper and dried grass/leaf mixture from a bag.. she is used to that..
Then dumped a few planters of dirt in the cart... and it is sitting out there so I can dump more tomorrow.
I worked on a stretch of the netting , but did not take the weed eater... it was getting late afternoon/eve.. I did get the other stretch I had pulled up, neatly folded out so that it will be easy to lay it out for the next stretch of fence I put up...
Then I finally caught the leghorn, they have really torn her head up... not sure why since she is the one wanting to set and was staying away from them... and moved her into the crate for the night. Tomorrow I will add feed and water... there was only 1 egg again... not sure if she is laying it and the other 2 have stopped... but they no longer have her to pick on.
Candled the eggs under the langshan, does not look like they are fertile..
but I am going to leave them there.. IF they aren't growing at 2 weeks, then I will let her set and when some hatch out of the incubator, I will give her chicks... If they aren't fertile, then it is either the male is no good.... or with the fighting/chasing the langshan male, he may not have been able to breed her with the 2 NH males going after him...
It might be better if they aren't fertile, then break her up and see if she will start laying again, and have her and the langshan male together in their own separate smaller pen... try a second time to get some chicks... See how I feel about it in another week.
I set 48 in the incubator in the house... leghorn and NH eggs. These NH eggs are from both males in the pen with 4 hens... Of them there are 5 that I question... 3 are leghorn eggs, 2 are NH eggs. BUT, I also should have a better light as the brown shelled NH eggs are harder to see through. I put the eggs back in there in case... When I candle at 2+ weeks, then it will be VERY OBVIOUS if they are duds, or died early... as they should be quite dark/more solid looking... I am pretty sure the leghorn eggs are duds... but it won't hurt to leave them in there for another week...
Several of these were obviously fertile with the spiderwork of blood veins...easy to see through the white shelled leghorn eggs.
I will start saving some NH eggs from the 4 with just the one rooster, after I candle again in a week or so... need at least 10 days - 2 weeks, to be fairly sure that they will be fertile by this male and not a mix of the two... Maybe the leghorns will start laying again since they went from an average of 2 a day to only 1 the last 4 days... Really considering it is time to rethink having them... Maybe by the time I get chicks out and growing, and go to Columbus Ohio... I will be ready to make some changes. And maybe I will get some nicer, calmer chicks and still want to keep them too. But I definitely want some NH bantams and some more Langshans.
Plus I will be getting the Vorwerk setting eggs in 10 days when I go to test the farm down close to Roanoke on the 5th of May.... so will want to have some NH eggs from this mating with the single rooster, to set at the same time...
So, that was my day/evening...
Wow, didn't realize it was this late. I'm going to hit the hay...
The pieces for the corrugated roof panels to fit on... are not what I need... it is a piece of wood that the wavy roof piece fits into... it goes on the top of the panel ... this is special made for this particular poultry run... I have some of the wavy pieces to go under the metal roof sheets...
I did not get as much done today as I had thought. It was nasty chilly and damp with the fog...
Packed the samples to take to UPS, put in the car...
I went out and carried water and fed the cornish hens and the NH pen...
Got the several bags of stuff for the dumpster in the car... Got my list so I wouldn't forget anything...
Stopped at the dumpsters, went to town, dropped samples at UPS to go out tomorrow... one less thing to worry about when we are busy for the vet tomorrow.
Went to Walmart, got grapes, banana's, a couple of other things I thought of not on the list... looked in the outdoor/garden dept but none of the plastic hose "repair kits" ... nothing much interesting new there...
Went to Lowes and got the flat "plate" reinforcing pieces to use on the pen, got one nice sized T and then a few just flat ones... I have lots of L shaped ones to use on corners...both 90 degrees and over the ends of the 90 degree joints....I pick these things up when I see them in the clearance aisles... get them for less than half... then have them when I need them.... but the L shaped ones don't help in the middle of the flat boards on the side stretch....Plus metal keeps going up... even the little pkgs of the ones I got were expensive... Found the ends for the heavy duty extension cord, to repair that where I accidentally cut it with the mower...... got 2 more bundles of the 2x2's so I can add a couple to the wire roof top so I can put the vinyl on without it sagging.. the wire tops are like 4x6... with 1 board down the middle... Fine even to add a roof piece that is rigid... but the vinyl is not rigid...I want to add 2 more, half way on each side of the existing one.. just to give the vinyl something more to lay against... The wire is on the inside of the pen so nothing flat on the outside... vinyl sags a little on each side of the 2x2 that is there... this will just hold it up better off the wire... not essential, but I was there... and will want to put them on the 2 wire panels for this pen I have halfway done... The one's already up, I will have to cut to length and then get up on a ladder and add them.... but since these panels are basically all the same, I can precut them all and then add... not like I have to cut each one to different lengths.
Then went to TSC, 1/10th mile up the road... and did find 1 set of the plastic hose repair male and female ends... also they had some other "shut off" pieces and 2 y's that were heavy plastic (think they are actually a type of vinyl) that were marked down... so grabbed them... the packaging is different on the new ones and they are naturally "more costly".... I also got 2 cans of pyrethrin bug/wasp spray that were marked WAY down.....
So I took my time and there were not alot of people out shopping so that was good.
Finally got home and unloaded things. Had to put my sweatshirt on... I wore a long sleeved T shirt all day... The breeze had gotten up and it was a bit "cool"..
Filled the bird feeders since it is chilly again and not much is out yet for them to eat.....
Got the mower and the cart, went and got the big dog crate and brought it back to the house. Put in on the bottom and put the 5 chicks in their "crate" on the top... figure the leghorn did not need to be disturbed as much... Got some shredded paper and dried grass/leaf mixture from a bag.. she is used to that..
Then dumped a few planters of dirt in the cart... and it is sitting out there so I can dump more tomorrow.
I worked on a stretch of the netting , but did not take the weed eater... it was getting late afternoon/eve.. I did get the other stretch I had pulled up, neatly folded out so that it will be easy to lay it out for the next stretch of fence I put up...
Then I finally caught the leghorn, they have really torn her head up... not sure why since she is the one wanting to set and was staying away from them... and moved her into the crate for the night. Tomorrow I will add feed and water... there was only 1 egg again... not sure if she is laying it and the other 2 have stopped... but they no longer have her to pick on.
Candled the eggs under the langshan, does not look like they are fertile..
but I am going to leave them there.. IF they aren't growing at 2 weeks, then I will let her set and when some hatch out of the incubator, I will give her chicks... If they aren't fertile, then it is either the male is no good.... or with the fighting/chasing the langshan male, he may not have been able to breed her with the 2 NH males going after him...It might be better if they aren't fertile, then break her up and see if she will start laying again, and have her and the langshan male together in their own separate smaller pen... try a second time to get some chicks... See how I feel about it in another week.
I set 48 in the incubator in the house... leghorn and NH eggs. These NH eggs are from both males in the pen with 4 hens... Of them there are 5 that I question... 3 are leghorn eggs, 2 are NH eggs. BUT, I also should have a better light as the brown shelled NH eggs are harder to see through. I put the eggs back in there in case... When I candle at 2+ weeks, then it will be VERY OBVIOUS if they are duds, or died early... as they should be quite dark/more solid looking... I am pretty sure the leghorn eggs are duds... but it won't hurt to leave them in there for another week...
Several of these were obviously fertile with the spiderwork of blood veins...easy to see through the white shelled leghorn eggs.
I will start saving some NH eggs from the 4 with just the one rooster, after I candle again in a week or so... need at least 10 days - 2 weeks, to be fairly sure that they will be fertile by this male and not a mix of the two... Maybe the leghorns will start laying again since they went from an average of 2 a day to only 1 the last 4 days... Really considering it is time to rethink having them... Maybe by the time I get chicks out and growing, and go to Columbus Ohio... I will be ready to make some changes. And maybe I will get some nicer, calmer chicks and still want to keep them too. But I definitely want some NH bantams and some more Langshans.
Plus I will be getting the Vorwerk setting eggs in 10 days when I go to test the farm down close to Roanoke on the 5th of May.... so will want to have some NH eggs from this mating with the single rooster, to set at the same time...
So, that was my day/evening...
Wow, didn't realize it was this late. I'm going to hit the hay...
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Same here!
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BRRRR 42 overnight low ! Sun is coming over the hill across road... supposed to be partly cloudy, but sun looks good in as much it will warm up this chill.
Going to go out and get the feed and water in to the leghorn's crate... see if she still wants to be "clucky"... she is going to have to stay isolated until her head heals from the atrocious pecking she has suffered. If I had the other pen done, I would possibly move her and the 5 half grown chicks in it for company... but for now she is staying where she is. Hope she does decide to stay broody... If so, in a couple days, I will have about 7-10 eggs to give her... Have to see who is/isn't laying. Maybe the other 2 will start to lay... I need to catch them on the roost and check to see if they have recently laid any eggs.
Will check and fill, any feed and water and then go up and get Maggie in the catch pen at snyder's. DS was going to plug the truck in at the barn so it will start... it needs new glow plugs... another thing he hasn't gotten to. There are alot of things he just lets go with all this having to "go" places with her. Then Sunday after they got back late Sat night, he didn't feel good and after getting to his house, just stretched out in the recliner and took a nap/break... said his head was pounding... so he has to recover from their being gone and gets even less done. Went through all this several years ago.....
I need to make up the vet list and have that ready for this afternoon. Time to eat and get out the door. I did not put the feed or water back in with the chicks last night either when I moved their crate up on top of the one I put the hen in... so they need their stuff too...
Going to go out and get the feed and water in to the leghorn's crate... see if she still wants to be "clucky"... she is going to have to stay isolated until her head heals from the atrocious pecking she has suffered. If I had the other pen done, I would possibly move her and the 5 half grown chicks in it for company... but for now she is staying where she is. Hope she does decide to stay broody... If so, in a couple days, I will have about 7-10 eggs to give her... Have to see who is/isn't laying. Maybe the other 2 will start to lay... I need to catch them on the roost and check to see if they have recently laid any eggs.
Will check and fill, any feed and water and then go up and get Maggie in the catch pen at snyder's. DS was going to plug the truck in at the barn so it will start... it needs new glow plugs... another thing he hasn't gotten to. There are alot of things he just lets go with all this having to "go" places with her. Then Sunday after they got back late Sat night, he didn't feel good and after getting to his house, just stretched out in the recliner and took a nap/break... said his head was pounding... so he has to recover from their being gone and gets even less done. Went through all this several years ago.....
I need to make up the vet list and have that ready for this afternoon. Time to eat and get out the door. I did not put the feed or water back in with the chicks last night either when I moved their crate up on top of the one I put the hen in... so they need their stuff too...
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Sounds like you got a lot done Sunday. Sorry about DS's problms - both health and GF. Such a shame that a nice guy like that got sucked into that relationship.
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Monday night, late... It was 42 to start and up to 71... comfortable... Light breeze...
Leghorn hen has made herself a nest so I am going to set her in a couple days... she is going to be quarantined from the other ones for the way they have torn her head up... may as well set on some eggs for me...
got everyone situated with feed, talked to DS and he had gone and gotten Buck this morning.. and he was working on the fence row there along the dirt road behind me, at Grants... I went up and got Maggie in the barn at snyder's around 10... DS said he would come get her after he got some other things done... maybe around 12:30. I said fine, I was going to do some things at the house.
I first put the reinforcing T and the straight flat plate on the panel for the poultry pen and got it put on... Then as I was getting the little "truss pieces" .. realized that I attached the panel upside down... and did the one on the other side upside down too... there are bolt holes and I did not see them .... they are for the truss pieces, and they have to be on the top, not the bottom... SOOOO, I will have to take the screws out, and then put them in with the bolt holes UP.... Not a huge deal... just a pain... My own fault... I had forgotten ...so for right now, it is together which gives it more strength than if there were separate pieces and the wind could take them down.. Maybe tomorrow.... there is supposed to be a line of showers/storms that is coming from the west, across KY and TN right now... and looks like there might actually be a little rain in it... Be gone through before noon, then sunny and then a second batch coming through for early Wed morning and through some of the day... Here's hoping
Then I put the putty on 3 sides of the last 2 window panes in that window sash... got the center piece of wood more stable that separates the panes... so I felt that putting the putty would be okay... Give them a couple days, and on another fairly warm day. flip it upside down and do the 4th side of all the 8 panes of glass... and that one will be done. The other one is not dry yet... but it feels "firmer" so guess it is getting there.
DS had gotten the cows and calves down into the barn..... from the field behind the barn at dougs, where we moved them after the calves kept getting out at grants; when he opened the gate and called all it took was 1, that thought there was something special in the barn....and they all headed right down .... He came and got Maggie about 12:30-1:00... and I followed him down to the barn and we unloaded her... was going to do her first... BUT.... vet looked at her and said he really felt she needs to be done by a hoof trimmer...put her on a table and they could trim and even grind them down some to get them "right".... looks like she may have foundered as the hooves have "grooves" and he said he just is not that good... but that her toes were all long and it could be putting pressure on the tendons and causing some of her lameness/pain... So, DS said he would trim them some after we were done with the preg check...
So then he went up to feed a little silage to the calving field behind the equipment shed... across the driveway... and we got a bunch of them out into the long alley and got the heifer out of there that somehow got through a fence or something and got in with them... She should've been preg checked a month ago with the rest...
Then we sorted the cows and calves... and in a bit the vet came... he was due at 2.. it was a little after...
Did the heifer first... and she was OPEN... not a good surprise... she was one of the younger ones, so she is going back with a bull... Then got started on the cows... had 2 preg then another open and DS was getting really upset already... but then we had mostly all preg... did a total of 28 cows and the heifer...= 29..
had a total of 5 open... the heifer, one old cow with NO TEETH... and 2 first calf heifers and 1 other cow...
So, not real bad... It was 4 from grants and the heifer...
Then DS cut Maggie's toes back some...cut one too short and she bled so we wrapped it... and he kept saying that no other cow would just stand there as good as she did... but this will take some of the length off, so she is not walking with her heels so far down because of the toe being so long... I will find another dairy that is going to have the hoof trimmer and make arrangements to take her... should have just gone to the dairy last week... but with him not here, me having so much trouble getting the truck started.. and all that, I hated to have to do it by myself...
He also made an appt to take the truck in to get the glow plugs replaced and all so it will start again...
So then Buck came to the barn, he had DS's other truck... and DS was going to take him home and stop and get a "buggy" with fertilizer on the way back... make the trip count as he wanted to get fertilizer on some pasture ground... especially if we get some rain... So DS started the truck,,,and we loaded Maggie and the heifer and I took them to snyder's and let them out... there are a couple other heifers there, plus my BWF her/hol crossed that are going to get a bull put with them in Mid June... Maggie and the other jersey first calf heifer, will get bred to the angus this time... unless I see them in heat before he gets put in there and I breed them AI first...
Not bad 12 of 14 first calf heifers were pregnant... and 13 of 15 cows were pregnant. Plus the heifer that was not where she should have been when the rest were checked...
The one old cow that is open will get sold when he pulls all the calves off the cows; she has a small steer calf...... For now she will just go out with the rest of the cows like she was....The other 3 that were open, I kept in with their calves... One of the calves will get sold, he is a big steer calf... the other 2 were heifer calves and DS is deciding whether to give them another chance... I also sorted off and kept 4 others in with bigger steer calves on them...
He got there just as I was getting one heifer calf in that lost her eartag... put in a replacement tag... so she could go back with her momma.
Moved them back up where they had been , left the 3 that were open, and the other 4 with bigger calves and put them in the lot at the end of the barn.
The other barn lot is empty for the cattle that are coming from VT...
Then we rolled out a roll of hay to the cows with spring calves, then took another roll and rode up to look at the other group of cows with the fall calves up in the back... set it up with the vet to come back next Tuesday... 10:30 a.m. to preg check them... DS wants to bring them in and pull the bigger steer calves off them also... between the 2 groups there ought to be 10 or so steer calves to sell...
Prices last Friday were still quite high... $5-6.00 a pound... for under 500 lb weights.. most of these will bring that... AND if we get them off the cows, the cows will dry up, and they will be eating less as well as the calves gone that are eating some grass. too...Take a little pressure off the pastures, and off the hay "bill" too...
So all in all it was not a bad day... not as good as the last preg check, but not that bad either..
Finally got home, collected 3 NH eggs, and no leghorn eggs... they better start laying again... and unhooked the mower from the cart and put it in... calling for that rain in the morning, then dry off for the rest of the day, then rain starting again early Wed morning... If it does dry off, I will try to do some more stuff outside... "fix" the panels on the pen and maybe get the truss pieces on... whatever hits me....
It's late, I'm going to bed...
Leghorn hen has made herself a nest so I am going to set her in a couple days... she is going to be quarantined from the other ones for the way they have torn her head up... may as well set on some eggs for me...
got everyone situated with feed, talked to DS and he had gone and gotten Buck this morning.. and he was working on the fence row there along the dirt road behind me, at Grants... I went up and got Maggie in the barn at snyder's around 10... DS said he would come get her after he got some other things done... maybe around 12:30. I said fine, I was going to do some things at the house.
I first put the reinforcing T and the straight flat plate on the panel for the poultry pen and got it put on... Then as I was getting the little "truss pieces" .. realized that I attached the panel upside down... and did the one on the other side upside down too... there are bolt holes and I did not see them .... they are for the truss pieces, and they have to be on the top, not the bottom... SOOOO, I will have to take the screws out, and then put them in with the bolt holes UP.... Not a huge deal... just a pain... My own fault... I had forgotten ...so for right now, it is together which gives it more strength than if there were separate pieces and the wind could take them down.. Maybe tomorrow.... there is supposed to be a line of showers/storms that is coming from the west, across KY and TN right now... and looks like there might actually be a little rain in it... Be gone through before noon, then sunny and then a second batch coming through for early Wed morning and through some of the day... Here's hoping
Then I put the putty on 3 sides of the last 2 window panes in that window sash... got the center piece of wood more stable that separates the panes... so I felt that putting the putty would be okay... Give them a couple days, and on another fairly warm day. flip it upside down and do the 4th side of all the 8 panes of glass... and that one will be done. The other one is not dry yet... but it feels "firmer" so guess it is getting there.
DS had gotten the cows and calves down into the barn..... from the field behind the barn at dougs, where we moved them after the calves kept getting out at grants; when he opened the gate and called all it took was 1, that thought there was something special in the barn....and they all headed right down .... He came and got Maggie about 12:30-1:00... and I followed him down to the barn and we unloaded her... was going to do her first... BUT.... vet looked at her and said he really felt she needs to be done by a hoof trimmer...put her on a table and they could trim and even grind them down some to get them "right".... looks like she may have foundered as the hooves have "grooves" and he said he just is not that good... but that her toes were all long and it could be putting pressure on the tendons and causing some of her lameness/pain... So, DS said he would trim them some after we were done with the preg check...
So then he went up to feed a little silage to the calving field behind the equipment shed... across the driveway... and we got a bunch of them out into the long alley and got the heifer out of there that somehow got through a fence or something and got in with them... She should've been preg checked a month ago with the rest...
Then we sorted the cows and calves... and in a bit the vet came... he was due at 2.. it was a little after...
Did the heifer first... and she was OPEN... not a good surprise... she was one of the younger ones, so she is going back with a bull... Then got started on the cows... had 2 preg then another open and DS was getting really upset already... but then we had mostly all preg... did a total of 28 cows and the heifer...= 29..
had a total of 5 open... the heifer, one old cow with NO TEETH... and 2 first calf heifers and 1 other cow...
So, not real bad... It was 4 from grants and the heifer...
Then DS cut Maggie's toes back some...cut one too short and she bled so we wrapped it... and he kept saying that no other cow would just stand there as good as she did... but this will take some of the length off, so she is not walking with her heels so far down because of the toe being so long... I will find another dairy that is going to have the hoof trimmer and make arrangements to take her... should have just gone to the dairy last week... but with him not here, me having so much trouble getting the truck started.. and all that, I hated to have to do it by myself...
He also made an appt to take the truck in to get the glow plugs replaced and all so it will start again...
So then Buck came to the barn, he had DS's other truck... and DS was going to take him home and stop and get a "buggy" with fertilizer on the way back... make the trip count as he wanted to get fertilizer on some pasture ground... especially if we get some rain... So DS started the truck,,,and we loaded Maggie and the heifer and I took them to snyder's and let them out... there are a couple other heifers there, plus my BWF her/hol crossed that are going to get a bull put with them in Mid June... Maggie and the other jersey first calf heifer, will get bred to the angus this time... unless I see them in heat before he gets put in there and I breed them AI first...
Not bad 12 of 14 first calf heifers were pregnant... and 13 of 15 cows were pregnant. Plus the heifer that was not where she should have been when the rest were checked...
The one old cow that is open will get sold when he pulls all the calves off the cows; she has a small steer calf...... For now she will just go out with the rest of the cows like she was....The other 3 that were open, I kept in with their calves... One of the calves will get sold, he is a big steer calf... the other 2 were heifer calves and DS is deciding whether to give them another chance... I also sorted off and kept 4 others in with bigger steer calves on them...
He got there just as I was getting one heifer calf in that lost her eartag... put in a replacement tag... so she could go back with her momma.
Moved them back up where they had been , left the 3 that were open, and the other 4 with bigger calves and put them in the lot at the end of the barn.
The other barn lot is empty for the cattle that are coming from VT...
Then we rolled out a roll of hay to the cows with spring calves, then took another roll and rode up to look at the other group of cows with the fall calves up in the back... set it up with the vet to come back next Tuesday... 10:30 a.m. to preg check them... DS wants to bring them in and pull the bigger steer calves off them also... between the 2 groups there ought to be 10 or so steer calves to sell...
Prices last Friday were still quite high... $5-6.00 a pound... for under 500 lb weights.. most of these will bring that... AND if we get them off the cows, the cows will dry up, and they will be eating less as well as the calves gone that are eating some grass. too...Take a little pressure off the pastures, and off the hay "bill" too...
So all in all it was not a bad day... not as good as the last preg check, but not that bad either..
Finally got home, collected 3 NH eggs, and no leghorn eggs... they better start laying again... and unhooked the mower from the cart and put it in... calling for that rain in the morning, then dry off for the rest of the day, then rain starting again early Wed morning... If it does dry off, I will try to do some more stuff outside... "fix" the panels on the pen and maybe get the truss pieces on... whatever hits me....
It's late, I'm going to bed...
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47 to start out... and it is WET.... have not been out to the rain gauges, but looked at the past 6 hours radar and it came in around 3-4a.m., looks like we got a bit... anything measurable in the rain gauge would be good. Supposed to stop by 10, it is barely sprinkling now... and then sun later on. It is quite breezy out, so feels really chilly right now. More to come in tonight or tomorrow and might be a bit more significant; we sure need it.
Going to take the explorer and go by the co-op and see if there is a line... if not, I will see about getting the oil changed... the message came on that says oil needs to be changed soon... Next week have to make the trip to Blacksburg for Dr appt for DS ... ought to get it done before that.
Ate eggs for breakfast.. going to get my butt in gear and go do something.
Going to take the explorer and go by the co-op and see if there is a line... if not, I will see about getting the oil changed... the message came on that says oil needs to be changed soon... Next week have to make the trip to Blacksburg for Dr appt for DS ... ought to get it done before that.
Ate eggs for breakfast.. going to get my butt in gear and go do something.
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This dark gray sky isnt helping for motivation. But there is always a lot to be done. Pray his appointment went well.
I passed up on the Hempler bacon at costco, even though is is cheaper to buy it there, it is still so expensive-
I may , next time Iam in town, get some , divide it up into freezer bags and only have it once or twice a week.
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Saw this today & thought about you
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@canesisters ... thank you for thinking of me... This is the tip of the iceberg... and it is growing.
Some people do develop such severe symptoms like being allergic to the dander in the hair... getting even a couple drops of saliva or milk on your skin...
And it is true... every single person has some similar reactions, and most have varied ones...
My initial was the feeling like the flu, hard to breathe, constant nose running, coughing, exhausted and having to PUSH myself to do anything.... then feeling like I was going to drown or suffocate when I laid down... kept thinking I had pneumonia... and then on top of that, severe EXPLOSIVE diarrhea and having no idea from what... BECAUSE... as stated in these articles... most reactions are 2-8 hours later... well, he//, you're not thinking something you ate at breakfast is affecting you at supper time...
Conventional doctors do NOT want to put enough credence into the fact that this is a real problem... and a SIMPLE blood test will reveal it... but most will not order it... UNLESS .... like I constantly was on the dr that there was something wrong and I noticed the symptoms right after I got the bulls eye rash from the tick bite..
They tested for Lyme but would not go any further even with my continually feeling worse and worse... then when I raised holy he//, she tested for the Tularemia which I had thought it might be... and did the Alpha gal test and Lyme AGAIN even though with the bulls eye rash I had tested negative to it twice... OF COURSE... it might have been nice to call me with the results of the tests so that I did not have to suffer another 3 months with it... and I was to the point that I was sure I had to have bronchial pneumonia because I could not get my breath, constant fluid... ALL because... "we post these results on the website MyChart that you can access... which I had told them I didn't use the computer much.....
EVEN SO, the dr's JOB is to take care of the patient.... and informing them of an ADVERSE DIAGNOSIS is part of that... So that is telling me that if I had a positive result to a test for cancer they would have expected me to find out from the my chart computer site????? Or if I tested positive for something else????
And when I don't feel good, I would eat more yogurt and pudding and "easy food" ..... just aggravating the condition worse...
I cannot imagine people that go for years and don't know why they feel soooo bad or so sick.....
I am thankful that handling the cattle does not seem to make it worse... although I did have more "allergy symptoms" after the preg check... nose blowing and coughing... so maybe it is causing more reactions...but allergy season is here with the abnormally warm crazy weather we have had.... The clinic I am going to, she said it could play havoc with my overall allergy symptoms and reactions... because my system is now over sensitive... like being on high alert so anything can set it off...
I am going to start carrying an epi-pen because of getting so out of breath so easily...I have an inhaler that I had never used in my life up to recently.....
This is not fun.... but at least I can take precautions... and although not mentioned anywhere in any of these related articles... I am hoping to do the acupuncture treatment as soon as I can build up the immune response to the glue/adhesive they use in surgical tape... that they cover these acupuncture needles with as they stay in for 3-5 weeks....
The NIH has recognized this SAAT treatment as being effective.... they no longer deny that MANY/MOST people get some relief with it...
BUT .... OH NO..... Let's not promote VOODOO medicine like acupuncture ... or herbalistic tinctures and such... they are only now accepting that Chiropractors do some good.....
BECAUSE they cannot patent it and pharmaceutical companies can not make money on it.... I have not looked into the treatment that was mentioned that costs thousands of dollars a month... and they will NOT do the trials to see how much can be done through these types of treatments. BECAUSE there is no money in it and they cannot control the outcomes by keeping people sick and pumping more medicine into them.
If anyone has any kind of symtoms like flu, diarrhea, shortness of breath, itchiness, rash, seeming to have more problems after eating some things you would not associate with it....nose running allergy type... get the blood test... better to eliminate it. "
I also tested positive to Rocky Mountain spotted fever... which is another Lone Star tick thing... and can be very very debilitating... which was probably part of my symptoms... but they wouldn't even talk about other tick diseases.
I guess I am lucky because I knew when I got that bulls eye rash, knew that I started feeling things were off shortly after that... knew that both my mom and son had had Lyme disease and relapses... and I have taken ticks off me constantly with being outside with the animals and on the tractor making hay.... around the woody/brushy areas along the edges of hayfields... checking cows in the woods in the summer when they are getting out of the heat of the sun... have cats that were bringing them in occasionally...
I could have gone years like some people before I found out...
Thanks again @canesisters .....
Some people do develop such severe symptoms like being allergic to the dander in the hair... getting even a couple drops of saliva or milk on your skin...
And it is true... every single person has some similar reactions, and most have varied ones...
My initial was the feeling like the flu, hard to breathe, constant nose running, coughing, exhausted and having to PUSH myself to do anything.... then feeling like I was going to drown or suffocate when I laid down... kept thinking I had pneumonia... and then on top of that, severe EXPLOSIVE diarrhea and having no idea from what... BECAUSE... as stated in these articles... most reactions are 2-8 hours later... well, he//, you're not thinking something you ate at breakfast is affecting you at supper time...
Conventional doctors do NOT want to put enough credence into the fact that this is a real problem... and a SIMPLE blood test will reveal it... but most will not order it... UNLESS .... like I constantly was on the dr that there was something wrong and I noticed the symptoms right after I got the bulls eye rash from the tick bite..
They tested for Lyme but would not go any further even with my continually feeling worse and worse... then when I raised holy he//, she tested for the Tularemia which I had thought it might be... and did the Alpha gal test and Lyme AGAIN even though with the bulls eye rash I had tested negative to it twice... OF COURSE... it might have been nice to call me with the results of the tests so that I did not have to suffer another 3 months with it... and I was to the point that I was sure I had to have bronchial pneumonia because I could not get my breath, constant fluid... ALL because... "we post these results on the website MyChart that you can access... which I had told them I didn't use the computer much.....
EVEN SO, the dr's JOB is to take care of the patient.... and informing them of an ADVERSE DIAGNOSIS is part of that... So that is telling me that if I had a positive result to a test for cancer they would have expected me to find out from the my chart computer site????? Or if I tested positive for something else????
And when I don't feel good, I would eat more yogurt and pudding and "easy food" ..... just aggravating the condition worse...
I cannot imagine people that go for years and don't know why they feel soooo bad or so sick.....
I am thankful that handling the cattle does not seem to make it worse... although I did have more "allergy symptoms" after the preg check... nose blowing and coughing... so maybe it is causing more reactions...but allergy season is here with the abnormally warm crazy weather we have had.... The clinic I am going to, she said it could play havoc with my overall allergy symptoms and reactions... because my system is now over sensitive... like being on high alert so anything can set it off...
I am going to start carrying an epi-pen because of getting so out of breath so easily...I have an inhaler that I had never used in my life up to recently.....
This is not fun.... but at least I can take precautions... and although not mentioned anywhere in any of these related articles... I am hoping to do the acupuncture treatment as soon as I can build up the immune response to the glue/adhesive they use in surgical tape... that they cover these acupuncture needles with as they stay in for 3-5 weeks....
The NIH has recognized this SAAT treatment as being effective.... they no longer deny that MANY/MOST people get some relief with it...
BUT .... OH NO..... Let's not promote VOODOO medicine like acupuncture ... or herbalistic tinctures and such... they are only now accepting that Chiropractors do some good.....
BECAUSE they cannot patent it and pharmaceutical companies can not make money on it.... I have not looked into the treatment that was mentioned that costs thousands of dollars a month... and they will NOT do the trials to see how much can be done through these types of treatments. BECAUSE there is no money in it and they cannot control the outcomes by keeping people sick and pumping more medicine into them.
If anyone has any kind of symtoms like flu, diarrhea, shortness of breath, itchiness, rash, seeming to have more problems after eating some things you would not associate with it....nose running allergy type... get the blood test... better to eliminate it. "
I also tested positive to Rocky Mountain spotted fever... which is another Lone Star tick thing... and can be very very debilitating... which was probably part of my symptoms... but they wouldn't even talk about other tick diseases.
I guess I am lucky because I knew when I got that bulls eye rash, knew that I started feeling things were off shortly after that... knew that both my mom and son had had Lyme disease and relapses... and I have taken ticks off me constantly with being outside with the animals and on the tractor making hay.... around the woody/brushy areas along the edges of hayfields... checking cows in the woods in the summer when they are getting out of the heat of the sun... have cats that were bringing them in occasionally...
I could have gone years like some people before I found out...
Thanks again @canesisters .....
