Oh no! It's Friday

rrlund

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I hadn't even thought about it being Friday. Now I remember that old adage about how if you start a job on Friday,you'll never get done.

I started catching those danged calves this morning and weaning them. Got half of them on the south side. Need to get some gates set up on the north side in the morning to start getting those. I have to load them in the trailer and haul them across the road.

Hope I get done some time this year!
 
I cut some hay today, but I'm already done with that. Tomorrow is a birthday party for my youngest who'll be 1 on Monday. Hopefully after that I can get out to the farm to start chopping 1/2 & 1/2 loads of corn & hay.

Got 8 loads of corn left, and I cut about 10 acres of hay that was thick enough to warrant cutting. Had a good killing frost last night, a few frosts earlier in the week, and I could tell it was just starting to wilt. With any luck we can fill the 9 x 135 we got coming. The corn is definately drier than it was on Monday night...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Oh you would have to talk about working with the cattle . One more thing to do YET , But could i send you a Eugene . He gets the cattle all worked up . Then the battle is on . To much running and yelling . Found out many a year ago if you just walk and talk it goes easier .
 
Ya,we had frost yesterday morning and a hard killing freeze this morning so the pastures are done. That's why I figured I'd better get those calves off the cows and give the old girls a rest now that the green feed is history. I've been feeding two round bales a day for going on six weeks now. If I don't get those calves off the cows pronto I'll be feeding four a day.
 
You got that right! Last year it took me almost a week,but no smashed gates,no broken bones. I've learned to just wait'em out. The creep feeders are in the corrals and when they come up and get around there,I just close the gate on'em. Then I'm set up so I can just crowd them where they need to go with another gate. The last one I caught today,there were four of them in there along with a spooky cow. She shot out and took three calves with her,but I just calmy closed the gate and took the one that was left. If I'd have taken after those other three,they'd have been the last ones I'd have caught this year for sure. I learned a long time ago,when you want to move cattle,you have to let them think it's their idea.
 
It's hard getting a sherriffs deputy to understand that at midnight chasing the cows that got out to go back in their pasture. It was the middle of summer, oats were up past my belly button and there was an extremely heavy dew that night.

One of the deputy's was calm and slow. The other was screaming and running. Dad told him to shut up and stop running. Don't know if he ever put 2 & 2 together, but he was a little better then.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
LOL. Just got off the phone with a friend who has been having trouble with a young bull that kept getting out. Elmer set his trailer up at a chute entrance a few days ago and left it there, with the door open. Bull came into the feeder area, and Elmer slammed the gate shut on him. Smartask says, "So what, ya left this other opening open, and though it he went. Elmer slammed the tail door shut. Little bustard tried to go over the tail gate, but Elmer had a chain across the middle of the opening (about 18" tall), and he took the other end of the chain and ran it across the tailgate to make sure it stayed shut. The bull just went to a feeder sale up near Lancaster, and decided to try to tear up the pens at the sale, but found out the Amish build some pretty stout pens.... Carol is happy he's gone.....
 
Was trying to get yearlings into a truck with a neighbor- maybe we were getting a little "overwrought"- his wife said "just go in the house, I'll be in in a minute and make lunch." She sprinkled some grain up the chute into the truck. We watched during lunch- as some went in, we were ready to go out and chase the rest- she said "just sit down, and finish your lunch." And sure enough, they eventually all loaded themselves, and we closed the door behind them. Wife said "You guys are just way too serious about this. Just let it happen."
 
I'm a proponent of "Holler & Run" myself!
I just figure to be between them and where I want them, and headed in that direction!
Worked for me when I had my Angus cattle, they'd chase me every time!
 
They have some buffalo in a pin near me. Just put them in this summer and they had calves. The calves are around 3 to 4 hundred pounds now. They have some round bale feeders n the pen and they had to put posts in the ground to keep them from rolling the feeders around. Came by there tonight and one of the calves is inside the feeder. I would like to have been there to see how they got it out. All the rest of them was standing around the feer watching the young one
 

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