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Posted: 5/1/2019 10:30:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:55:54 AM EDT
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Had quite a sunset the other night. This phone camera does not even begin to do the colors justice. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190424_200159_jpg-931284.JPG Made a handshake deal on 15 bred cows today. The good lord willing, we'll get the mommas home next week and have 15 new baby heifer calves on our farm come August/Sept  ETA- I took about 50 pics trying to get it. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190424_204821_jpg-931299.JPG Love your pics. Can't wait to see progress on your homestead! |
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Posted: 5/7/2019 9:10:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/8/2019 10:34:00 PM EDT
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I have ZERO intention to be alarmist in this situation.
But you do have beef cattle, and that does look like it might be fescue growing tall. Don't get worried, but if you don't already know, do spend a little time educating yourself about fescue toxicity so you can make sure you don't end up with it. 
Here is one article.. Beef and fescue toxicity ETA: Cows are much more Zen than are pigs. I know @Feral loves pigs, but....I kinda don't. I love cows. 
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Posted: 5/14/2019 10:27:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/14/2019 10:46:41 PM EDT
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Wow, I am here in Paragould AR,, enjoying this PERFECT 77 degree weather. Your spread looks real nice.
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Posted: 6/7/2019 10:16:02 PM EDT
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I'm all read up on fescue toxicity. But Thanks for the warning. Definitely not something I was aware of before I started studying to be a grass farmer. Finally got the tomatoes planted...with lots of supervision. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190513_121230_jpeg-945525.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190514_211509_jpeg-945527.JPG Let us see updates on your tomatoes.
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Posted: 6/10/2019 9:51:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2019 10:48:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/13/2019 11:17:06 PM EDT
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Hmmm, guess my tomato pic wasn't good enough...
How about this one? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190613_214146_resized_jpg-979027.JPG 
This is a good one. 
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Posted: 6/15/2019 11:03:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/15/2019 11:22:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/16/2019 12:13:45 AM EDT
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Tagscribe! Beautiful
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Posted: 6/18/2019 10:49:29 PM EDT
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We also took a relaxing little hike to the falls a couple miles from our house. Usually lots of swimmers on hot days. (Only hiked 2 miles round trip, drove the rest )
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190615_221211_jpg-981107.JPG As you can tell, we were very excited. I built a garden gate for the wife. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190613_174534_jpg-981108.JPG Had to add another hinge, as it's a heavy pig, and bent the bottom hinge. Probably add at least one more. Ive also been going round and round with the stubborn cows. Tried to spray them for flies and covered myself much better than them. Then had a Mexican standoff withholding water to try and get them under a back-rub....they won that one
And spent most of one morning hand pulling about 100 thistles that went to flower before I saw them hiding on the backside of a small drop off. Here's a crappy picture of a hummingbird moth that let me get my phone really close. I pissed off lots of butterflies and bees that morning... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190613_175036_jpg-981111.JPG 
Your gate is AWESOME! Will you show it installed so I can see the whole thing, and how you put it together? I've got to build a gate for our chicken yard, since I officially rustled some chickens (long story) so now I have to get our setup back in working order. I love that idea! On another note...the falls are beautiful, but...did you get the cows sprayed? I have learned that I cannot out-stubborn a cow. |
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Posted: 6/25/2019 1:34:53 PM EDT
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This year I'm using mineral with fly control to keep back the flies. We've tried molasses with fly control and spraying before. So far this seems to be working. Not too many flies on them.
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Posted: 7/2/2019 11:08:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/3/2019 1:51:08 AM EDT
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Wow, where does the time go? I feel like I'm busy all the time, but then come here and try to post a few things I've accomplished, and I wonder where all that time went. Ive got the cows sprayed several times now. There are 5 that figured out it's good for them, 8 are kinda spooky but I can get them some, and 2 that have never been touched by a drop 
I did switch to a fly control mineral about 2 weeks ago, and I do believe it's helping some already. I got the working pen all cleaned up to have the vet out on the 8th to give them a good look, since I don't know anything. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190702_215620_jpeg-1002105.JPG I put a hotwire across one pasture to strip graze it since I dont have that many cows and they didn't do a good job eating down the last large section they were in. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190702_215739_jpeg-1002107.JPG I love Permetherin! Nothing like walking thru pasture and seeing literally hundreds of ticks grab on and then jump right off. Not to mention chiggers I never see! If a tick makes it to my shirt I know it's time to re-treat my pants. Here's a pic of the gate hung (for now) my fence is pulling the posts crooked, so I'm planning on taking it all down again in the fall and putting up a proper braced fence. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190627_105141_jpeg-1002112.JPG
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Posted: 7/3/2019 7:34:04 AM EDT
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Looking good Poss!!
I worked on a small dairy for a couple years and they moved their cows to new grass every day. We'd give them enough to feed them well but small enough that they cleaned it all.. All we used was a single strand of electric twine & fiberglas posts. Look into Wind-up Reels They'll make life much easier! We had a hunk of chain link fence we would drag the paddock with to smear the manure. This helps with future growth and cows won't eat close to an existing pile. As for fly control look into Predator Wasps. Start early, before flies hatch and continue thru the season. A squeeze gate is great for vet inspections or applying fly spray! I always look forward to your updates. Nice looking farm...Be proud of what you've accomplished! |
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Posted: 7/4/2019 6:40:23 AM EDT
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Fantastic job OP! You guys have done an amazing job on everything. Love the kitchen! Do you heat the whole house with that stove?
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Posted: 7/20/2019 12:13:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/20/2019 1:12:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/22/2019 6:16:55 PM EDT
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And its finally ready! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190720_120455_jpeg-1023451.JPG Couldn't convince them to hang upside down
I swept the floor right after the weight test pic, I swear
Going to sanitize the whole thing before moving cutting equipment in. Now I'm off to mow and drag some cow poop! Are you doing an organic production in your garden? Or using some chemical? I'm wondering how you plan to handle the clover--let it die naturally and till it in? Or what? And that's a gorgeous view. I'd want to stay in that pool all day. ETA: When you stop in again, can you show closer photos of the chicken enclosure? I'm interested in how you did the 'lanai' top. I've tried a couple of different methods for a top on a chicken run, and haven't liked either of them. Wanting to see how you did yours. I saw the one photo when you put the shade cloth on it, above (at least I think that's what you were doing) but how you did the structure--and is the top also chicken wire? Did you weave it together somehow? Or did you buy really wide wire?
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Posted: 7/25/2019 7:56:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2019 10:34:24 PM EDT
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And its finally ready! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190720_120455_jpeg-1023451.JPG Couldn't convince them to hang upside down
I swept the floor right after the weight test pic, I swear
Going to sanitize the whole thing before moving cutting equipment in. Now I'm off to mow and drag some cow poop! a BITCH to keep clean!
OP, you are doing great. I'm completely jealous! I had to bulldoze a fence line and it's still dropping tree limbs on my fence! |
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Posted: 7/26/2019 12:02:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thank you for the kind words. Yes, the woodstove is the only source of heat. We do have electric baseboards for insurance purposes, but they've been off at the breaker since installed. I haven't used anything but neem oil and elbow grease this year. Im not trying for organic or against chemicals, but I definitely minimize when possible. I plan to till a row through the clover when I want to plant something. I usually use wood chips and cardboard for mulch. But decided to try the clover for the open area I won't use until fall. It's doing great smothering weeds. I assume its improving my soil too. I'll weed-whack it if it gets too crazy.
Nothing fancy on the chicken pen. I had a bunch of 5" long screws leftover from securing the foam in the walk-in, so they made it really easy going straight thru the "4x4".
I did use a couple joist hangers where they came down at an angle. The shade is actually corrugated steel like the coop roof. I may need to brace that section more if we expect a lot of snow this winter. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190724_165921_jpeg-1030266.JPG The chicken wire was 4' wide. Most of the splices lined up on a board. Where they didn't I took the wire they wrap the roll with and painstakingly knitted them together. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190724_165933_jpeg-1030268.JPG The pen is just to keep chickens in and hawks out. We still secure them in the coop every night. I did the "knit together" thing with netting for the "roof." But I won't do netting again,. It catches too many little birds who don't see it and die before I can get them out. I just won't do it. Hurts my heart too much. So weaving the chicken wire together......what a pain. I like your wooden brace system. I'm just wondering if it will sag over time. And yes...snow load....not so much here in a normal year, but we are called the "transition zone" for a reason. We might get almost none. Or we might get 14". 
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Posted: 7/26/2019 11:13:16 AM EDT
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Ive not caught any little birds yet. I did rescue a butterfly the other day before the chickens grabbed it
I do plan on it sagging with the 8' 2x4 spacing, I just didn't want to spend a bunch to frame it "right", when they still free range 80% of the time until winter. This fall when cutting firewood I'll be looking for cedars to add in as bracing and leave some branches on for climbing and snack trays. We'll see how it works out, but I've got lots of rocks and cedars
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Posted: 7/27/2019 12:06:34 AM EDT
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Ive not caught any little birds yet. I did rescue a butterfly the other day before the chickens grabbed it
I do plan on it sagging with the 8' 2x4 spacing, I just didn't want to spend a bunch to frame it "right", when they still free range 80% of the time until winter. This fall when cutting firewood I'll be looking for cedars to add in as bracing and leave some branches on for climbing and snack trays. We'll see how it works out, but I've got lots of rocks and cedars That's what I was wondering. |
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Posted: 7/27/2019 10:05:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/29/2019 4:03:17 PM EDT
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Great thread OP.
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Posted: 7/29/2019 9:48:24 PM EDT
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Great thread, subscribed!
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Posted: 7/29/2019 11:28:01 PM EDT
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Yes posts roughly every 8' and the 2x4's going across are every 4'. There was only one long stretch where I knitted two pieces of wire together, so I wouldn't have to climb around on top, otherwise working around the coop the wire overlapped on the 2x4s. Caught this guy eating eggs when I was building a chicken door. About 4' long. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190726_104304_jpeg-1033026.JPG He got his one pardon, released a couple hundred yards away by a rat warren, but it'll get the shovel if I catch it in the coop again. Got a chicken door built. We were just using the big door, but too much rain got in. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190727_192452_jpeg-1033030.JPG Building new nest boxes next. We're bout to redo our siding. I'm going to steal that.
And the rock steps are freakin' cute. I might steal THAT, too.
I hope the snake stays away. Good snakes are good things. |
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Posted: 8/17/2019 1:05:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/17/2019 8:24:06 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2019 12:22:47 AM EDT
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I hope the baby raccoon still lives, and the Copperhead does not. Actually I would say I hope the snake still lived, too, if you didn't have little ones running around. But you do. So I'm guessing it has been dispatched, and I would do the same. |
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Posted: 8/18/2019 8:55:33 AM EDT
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I hope the baby raccoon still lives, and the Copperhead does not. Actually I would say I hope the snake still lived, too, if you didn't have little ones running around. But you do. So I'm guessing it has been dispatched, and I would do the same. Copperheads - kill on sight with everything I can swing at them. Actually got one with 12ga 00 one time...it's all I had on hand I don't fool around with venomous snakes. Africa taught me some really hard lessons.
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Posted: 8/18/2019 10:17:00 PM EDT
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Listen...don't get me started, ok? I want a baby pet raccoon! They look like a lot of fun. Copperheads - kill on sight with everything I can swing at them. Actually got one with 12ga 00 one time...it's all I had on hand I don't fool around with venomous snakes. Africa taught me some really hard lessons.In a big crate they had two baby raccoons. Big enough to be interactive, but small enough to not be scared. They had found them with a dead mama. 
Anyway, their names were Bonnie and Clyde, and they wanted our help because they thought we might know somebody who would give rabies shots to raccoons. (This is actually a very bad idea, because it harms the overall resiliency of the population by making them less naturally resistant and more dependent on vaccinations, which raccoons would normally never get--simplified version of what has been explained to me.) Anyway.. I sat down crosslegged and this little raccoon crawled up onto my lap and stood on its back legs and coo'd at me in the sweetest little mix of a dove coo and a kitten purr you've ever heard. Then it reached up and put its hand gently on my cheek, and looked into my eyes and coo'd some more, and I was just overcome with love and Bambi syndrome so bad I nearly fell over. They raised the babies best they could, then let them go. I don't want to think about what happened to them. A tame raccoon released into the wild is not a good thing.
But I still watch at night when I'm having a fire, and I see a coon's eyes reflecting the firelight as it comes to drink at the pond out back, and I wonder if it's Bonnie or Clyde. 
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Posted: 8/19/2019 10:43:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A couple up the road called us down there for wine one night, and we arrived to a "come here and look at this," scenario. In a big crate they had two baby raccoons. Big enough to be interactive, but small enough to not be scared. They had found them with a dead mama.
Anyway, their names were Bonnie and Clyde, and they wanted our help because they thought we might know somebody who would give rabies shots to raccoons. (This is actually a very bad idea, because it harms the overall resiliency of the population by making them less naturally resistant and more dependent on vaccinations, which raccoons would normally never get--simplified version of what has been explained to me.) Anyway.. I sat down crosslegged and this little raccoon crawled up onto my lap and stood on its back legs and coo'd at me in the sweetest little mix of a dove coo and a kitten purr you've ever heard. Then it reached up and put its hand gently on my cheek, and looked into my eyes and coo'd some more, and I was just overcome with love and Bambi syndrome so bad I nearly fell over. They raised the babies best they could, then let them go. I don't want to think about what happened to them. A tame raccoon released into the wild is not a good thing.
But I still watch at night when I'm having a fire, and I see a coon's eyes reflecting the firelight as it comes to drink at the pond out back, and I wonder if it's Bonnie or Clyde. I wouldn't be able to handle a baby racoon crawling up on me like that. The cuteness will kill me! haha. Bambi syndrome sounds about right! haha. My great Danes were called Bonnie and Clyde in S.A. |
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Posted: 8/19/2019 11:27:13 PM EDT
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Did not know that about rabies shots. To be honest, I've never had my animals vaccinated - wife always handles that...but never did in Africa and we never had any of our animals get rabies. Maybe luck of the draw? I wouldn't be able to handle a baby racoon crawling up on me like that. The cuteness will kill me! haha. Bambi syndrome sounds about right! haha. My great Danes were called Bonnie and Clyde in S.A. Controlling disease outbreak in a wild population is an interesting thing. Talking to any fish/wildlife agent is (to me) an exercise in figuring out a-how much of what he/she is saying is designed for the completely ignorant public.....and b-Whether there is anything in the propaganda being spewed at me, which is actually truth and relevant to the subject at hand. I think the rabies thing....that's solid thinking based on everything I know (though wildlife management is CERTAINLY NOT my expertise. Anything but. I wrangle plants. They don't move fast.) Anyway, when you think about it... These wild populations are not going to get innoculated. Every one of them that survives in an environment where disease is present is a strong individual. We want them to survive and breed those genetics into future generations, so we have more raccoons who can make it through a serious outbreak of that particular disease. It makes sense to me that innoculating any individual against that disease hurts the overall population. Really hard decision to make when you're faced with Bonnie and Clyde, patting your face, looking solemnly into your eyes and cooing at you. EDITED TO ADD: Apologies to OP. Did not intend to jack the thread based on your pic of the cute baby raccoon. Back to your regularly scheduled posts in one of the best threads we've had in Homestead/Garden EVER.
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Posted: 9/7/2019 12:39:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/8/2019 9:59:21 AM EDT
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Great pictures. Glad to see the first calf looking content there. Will that be enough hay for the winter?
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Posted: 9/8/2019 8:30:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/8/2019 8:36:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/9/2019 8:33:00 AM EDT
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(Was supposed to be)Just a quick update The neighbor has been working on making hay. Theres been some setbacks with equipment and nature, but the cows will have more than a snowball to chew on for most of this winter...hopefully. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_org_ee2f7cd1e21a142a_1567116008000_jpeg-1081583.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_org_11d804009b93d299_1567725379000_jpeg-1081612.JPG As soon as the cows start paying their way, this field will get lime and fertilizer. Our family schedule has been crazy this week, so I opened up half a pasture to the cows, as I didn't have time to move fence every two days before it gets dark. Checked on them just before dark Tues. and one cow appeared to have a hurt leg. On our hills sprains aren't uncommon. Too dark to see much, so I tried to get there earlier the next day, and still didn't make it until almost dark. But I thought I saw a little ass end following a cow away thru the chest high ragweed. No cows with hurt legs though. Again, out of light, I didn't want to go chasing them in tall weeds. Couldn't make it over during daylight the next day either, but I flew the drone over. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190906_230906_jpeg-1081592.JPG Finally today I went over early, and walked, and walked, and walked... and found nothing. Started wondering if I hallucinated... Back to the house, launched air assets, triangulated location of xl cow pie with trees on fence (crashed the air asset and broke a rotor
About ran all the way back over and saved my drone from the line of cows sniffing it, then went to find the xl cow pie...phew that's a lot of text... Anyhow, here's our very first calf. I named it Cowpie. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190906_191636_jpg-1081605.JPG I don't want to assume it's gender identity,  so I didn't bother getting it up to try and see. Apparently 4 days old and looked healthy, and that was good enough for me. Probably see if she'll bring it to some not so tall pasture tomorrow.
According to the vet, last month, there are 13 other cows that were due before her....not so sure about this vet anymore. 
I saw another one tonight with her bag filling up. As far as calves go, just put one of these signs up and it should help out with timing
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Posted: 9/9/2019 8:38:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm going to end up with 65 bales in the barn. According to the guy I trust about these things; the formula is 1/2 square bale of hay per cow per day, and about 1/3 of a square per calf. Average to bad winter we would need to feed hay for 120 days straight. The round bales I have should equal approx. 16 squares. 15 cows x 1/2 square = 7 1/2 sq. 15 calves (assuming they all live and we keep them all winter) x 1/3 square = 5 sq. So almost 13 square, or about 1 round bale per day. Sorry if you already knew all that. I thought it was neat. So worst case, no I won't have enough hay for all, but just enough for the cows. But a mild winter or late frost will help as I have lots of grass still. Worst case I sell the calves earlier than I want and/or buy hay. I worked for a custom hay operation for a couple years. Man do I miss it sometimes. Low stress and not much thinking involved, unlike my day job
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Posted: 9/9/2019 9:12:18 AM EDT
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Awesome home and property. Thank you for sharing.
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Posted: 9/9/2019 9:34:40 AM EDT
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You did well, and looks like a great homestead! Curious if your gonna keep bees?
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Posted: 9/9/2019 2:34:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looking good OP! Enjoy following this thread. As far as calves go, just put one of these signs up and it should help out with timing
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Posted: 9/9/2019 2:38:03 PM EDT
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(Was supposed to be)Just a quick update The neighbor has been working on making hay. Theres been some setbacks with equipment and nature, but the cows will have more than a snowball to chew on for most of this winter...hopefully. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_org_ee2f7cd1e21a142a_1567116008000_jpeg-1081583.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_org_11d804009b93d299_1567725379000_jpeg-1081612.JPG As soon as the cows start paying their way, this field will get lime and fertilizer. Our family schedule has been crazy this week, so I opened up half a pasture to the cows, as I didn't have time to move fence every two days before it gets dark. Checked on them just before dark Tues. and one cow appeared to have a hurt leg. On our hills sprains aren't uncommon. Too dark to see much, so I tried to get there earlier the next day, and still didn't make it until almost dark. But I thought I saw a little ass end following a cow away thru the chest high ragweed. No cows with hurt legs though. Again, out of light, I didn't want to go chasing them in tall weeds. Couldn't make it over during daylight the next day either, but I flew the drone over. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/Resized_20190906_230906_jpeg-1081592.JPG Finally today I went over early, and walked, and walked, and walked... and found nothing. Started wondering if I hallucinated... Back to the house, launched air assets, triangulated location of xl cow pie with trees on fence (crashed the air asset and broke a rotor
About ran all the way back over and saved my drone from the line of cows sniffing it, then went to find the xl cow pie...phew that's a lot of text... Anyhow, here's our very first calf. I named it Cowpie. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/405866/20190906_191636_jpg-1081605.JPG I don't want to assume it's gender identity, so I didn't bother getting it up to try and see. Apparently 4 days old and looked healthy, and that was good enough for me. Probably see if she'll bring it to some not so tall pasture tomorrow.
According to the vet, last month, there are 13 other cows that were due before her....not so sure about this vet anymore.
I saw another one tonight with her bag filling up. But calving season attracts yotes. I tend to want to move the babies and mommas in closer to the farm buildings at that time...even just watching real close and moving the baby (momma will follow) after it's born. The vulnerable time is calving time through the first couple of weeks. Momma is down and can't defend the birthing calf,and against yotes working together, she can't fend them all off of the newborn even if she's up when they arrive. I try to be proactive. (I speak as though I've done this recently, and I have not, but growing up doing it made me careful. Hard to watch a momma calve then lose the baby to predators overnight.) Sorry if you already know this. That drone is a great tool, btw. Well done. |
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