Good Morning!--Chat thread

[Farmer Kitty]

Please remind me never to run out of formula. I just walked for the past hour and a half to the closest 24 hour Walgreens to buy some. My legs are killing me! (I don't drive and the hubby's at work)

I always kept a small can tucked away. I never counted it when I was figuring formula needs. That way if, something happened that I ran out, I had some.

Lol we have one of those but hubby moved it and I have no clue where it went

 

[wynedot55]

im up an going this morning but no hurry todo anything.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

We get the " barn" finished this weekend! Well, that's the plan and hopefully I'm not counting my chickens before they pip :bun

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Good luck getting the barn done! It's always so nice to get a big project finished and be able to say, "I/We did that!"

 

[amysflock]

Good morning! Kitty, thank you for sharing the "touch-calf-nose-to-hotwire" trick yesterday. I think it worked! Both calves have stayed where they're supposed to be since yesterday afternoon! What a relief. I was really starting to feel like one of those parents on "Nanny 911" who learn how to deal with toddlers who won't stay in bed at night...grab them by the hand, walk them back to their room, put them back in bed, walk away, they get up, grab them by the hand, walk them back to their room, put them back to bed, walk away, ad nauseum.

DH came home, fish look great (we'll have salmon tonight and he gave a couple packages to the neighbors next door...and she's mortified that I heard her "shaddup" Wednesday morning as she was sarcastically saying it so her husband would hear - but it was in regards to my bawling calves!) DH was saying how no loud noise could keep him awake, but as we went to bed in our room next to the pasture where the calves are AND with the window cracked so I could listen for escapes, he said, "OMG, they are SO loud!" He got up at 4:45 and went to work...I'll be curious to hear how he slept.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

You are welcome. I'm just glad it seems to have worked. Somehow, I have a feeling she hadn't investigated the fence with her nose to learn what it is.

Hmmm, glad DH got home in time to hear the complaints from the pasture. Sometimes those DHs really need to experience things for themselves before, they will believe. Glad his fishing trip went good.

 

[Thewife]

Good morning everybody!

Shhh...
Gotta be quiet so Hubby don't wake up! I need to do a little more raking this morning and I can't until he gets up and puts the rake on the tractor! So, we will just let him sleep!
The neighbors have about 380 bales to pick up today.
Hubby made a couple trips through one of our fields last night, so far my boys have about 90 bales to pick up!
My boys aren't going to be happy this year! These bales are a little bigger and a little heavier than the ones we made in the past!

Okiron, we really don't kow much about hay either! We had the fields, bought some equipment, worked up the fields, planted seed, bought more equipment and started making hay!
It's been a learn as we go type thing!

Amy, glad the calves are staying in! Hubby has no problem sleeping when we are weaning, I on the other hand wake up to every moo when we are not weaning! Needless to say, I don't sleep at all when we do wean!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

thewife, there is usually a way to adjust the bales. The spring tension, the cranks on top decide how tightly they are packed. The bar on the side that trips to tie the bale can be adjusted to determine the length.

 

[Thewife]

thewife, there is usually a way to adjust the bales. The spring tension, the cranks on top decide how tightly they are packed. The bar on the side that trips to tie the bale can be adjusted to determine the length.

Hubby has that part figured out! He played with it while doing the neighbors hay, so they have all the oddball sized bales! (That's not why he did theirs first, their field was ready to bale ours was not)

This baler makes them 2 inches bigger in the other directions and seems to be able to pack them better!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

thewife, there is usually a way to adjust the bales. The spring tension, the cranks on top decide how tightly they are packed. The bar on the side that trips to tie the bale can be adjusted to determine the length.

Hubby has that part figured out! He played with it while doing the neighbors hay, so they have all the oddball sized bales! (That's not why he did theirs first, their field was ready to bale ours was not)

This baler makes them 2 inches bigger in the other directions and seems to be able to pack them better!

And here I figured you were going to ask for pics to go with the explaination.

It may pack better due to being PTO driven instead of motor driven. Although some just pack better than others.