Donald Lehman

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-4 yesterday morning. Warmed up to about 15 by 10am or so. That darned old S-88 was covered with a foot of snow, hasn't been run in a week. One preheat and the sunufagun lights right up. (chuckles and grins!)
 
The hydrant in the barn was froze up this morning. It's been on all summer and fall. I've turned it off the last few nights and it's been fine,but apparently it didn't drain all the way last night. I'll have to blow it out with the air tank tonight to make sure the drain hole is clean.

I was feeding one pen of cattle this morning and caught something out of the corner of my eye. The ones in the finishing pen had gotten a gate open and were headed out with the cows. We got most of them back,but it was tough walking on that frozen crusted mess. The wife always manages to find a soft spot and gets a boot hung up.

We'll wait an hour or so and see if the rest come up on the concrete before we go tripping back out there again. It might as well be a Monday with all these problems.
 
They might want back in to the "good" feed by tomorrow. All except one, of course. You remember the "one's", I'm sure.

I had a fat steer get out while we were loading. Went ahead to the sale barn with the others. Next morning that rascal had jumped the gate to get back in the lot.

Done that with heifers that I've kept too.
 
I said that to some of them when I walked out there and they were eating first cutting hay out of the feeder. I said "ya sonsabitches wouldn't touch that stuff if I put it in your feeder.". Most of them came back when they heard me running silage in the bunk. I'm headed out in a minute to see if the rest got hungry yet.
 
I rig a tarp strap on my gate latch chains. They've never gotten one open since I started doing that. (knock on wood)

I'm dealing with a smaller herd than you are though.
 
I had a wire wrapped around this one to keep the chain down in the slot. Must be they rubbed on in until they broke it. I just put one of those snap type chain latches on it. I thought there was more of them left out there than there was. I could only find one. He walked up with two cows that went up for water and I got him back.
 
I am to the point where every gate that has cattle behind it gets two chains. One with a snap and one that goes in the slot. I have also changed to strap hinges built by a welding shop that stops the cattle from ever lifting one off the hinges. Tom
 
Ha! Throw a bale of Black River flats hay in front of them they won't touch it. Shake it up under them for bedding and they darn near hang themselves trying to twist around to get at it!
 
Ya,I've got a safety chain on the main feedlot gates that I open a couple of times a day. The rest are usually wired down. I think that snap hook will work OK on that one they had open this morning.
 
Yep,I've got some rained on second cutting like that. I dropped a bale in the feeder and it laid there for three days until I took it back out. I started putting one in the barn every other day where they can bunt it and knock it around and they pretty much clean it right up.
 

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