One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

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We are doing a validation milk test tomorrow for the Toggs because Climate Control still has a chance to make the Top 10 for fat
Both she and Freeday will star in fat, protein, and volume

Shea and Opal who starred for fat and protein but missed for volume as FF look like they will pretty easily make volume this time

Dee and Molasses should star in all 3 categories as FF
Molasses is on track to be our highest volume ever as a FF she is forecasted to hit 926 lbs.

Poor Cookie isn't going to make it for volume
Single kids every time has really held her back I think
 

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Cancelled the test this morning.
Turned cold last night and Climate didn't react well to the change in climate.
 

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That's too bad. Can it be rescheduled in the near future?

Yes, but we wanted to do it before the state fair this weekend.
You get them out of their routine and this late in lactation you let them fill over 12 hours to get a good show fill.
All can throw them off.
 

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We are doing a validation milk test tomorrow for the Toggs because Climate Control still has a chance to make the Top 10 for fat
Both she and Freeday will star in fat, protein, and volume

Shea and Opal who starred for fat and protein but missed for volume as FF look like they will pretty easily make volume this time

Dee and Molasses should star in all 3 categories as FF
Molasses is on track to be our highest volume ever as a FF she is forecasted to hit 926 lbs.

Poor Cookie isn't going to make it for volume
Single kids every time has really held her back I think

Sounds like your Toggs are doing great.

That's great for Molasses. Congrats! Will you milk her the full 305 days?

Do you milk cookie daily too? It's never as effective as multiple kids, but it worked on ours with a single. Of coarse her 9 month old got called "overfleshed" at our last show and she's as big as her dam. So- she might be nursing as much as triplets! (Drinian daughter)
 

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Sounds like your Toggs are doing great.

That's great for Molasses. Congrats! Will you milk her the full 305 days?

Do you milk cookie daily too? It's never as effective as multiple kids, but it worked on ours with a single. Of coarse her 9 month old got called "overfleshed" at our last show and she's as big as her dam. So- she might be nursing as much as triplets! (Drinian daughter)
Cookie has been milked twice a day
 

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Have you tasted the Togg milk yet? Glad your buck responded well to the meds. That is a pretty high temp.
 

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Have you tasted the Togg milk yet? Glad your buck responded well to the meds. That is a pretty high temp.

Yes on the Togg milk, I put something on here right after we got them. Did a side by side taste test with Nigerian milk.

The Togg milk wasn't bad like I had always heard. It reminds me of the milk I drank growing up, my grandmother had dairy goats.

It isn't as good as the Nigerian milk. We use the Nigerian milk for drinking and cereal.

Yeah, Vivaldi bounced back pretty quick. He bred Joy yesterday.
 

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So tomorrow should be a good day
Maybe a very good day
People are coming to pick up Bamm Bamm and Moonshine at 8 am
The guy buying them is a student in animal science at Mt Olive University
Just like Mt Olive pickles
Mt Olive, NC is the pickle capital of the world
Our good friend is the professor/chair of the AS program there and says he is a good young man
She is actually coming with him to get them
They have a fall break and she is going to his family"s farm to do a cattle AI clinic


So that's a done deal

Tomorrow afternoon someone is coming to look at the Rosemary × Valiant buckling
They are coming from 2 hours away so hope he goes home with them
 
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