Happy critters for tonight picture

Philip d

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There?s 52 in here right now. I run the corn silage in the center with the old 751 Bobcat. On Monday I cleaned both pens out, there was 7 1/2 tandem loads. There?s a bale feeder in each pen and we keep round bale silage in at all times. The first month this group of calves were in they got fed dry hay plus a little corn. On top of silage they get 6) 5 gallon buckets of rolled barley per pen per day. I still have some 40% heifer concentrate left and in each ton and a half batch I put in 400 pounds of supplement. I?m pretty near out of supplement so when I?m out I?ll add salt and mineral. Depending how far from home becomes my new full time employment will dictate if this is my last batch or not. I?ll have to decide one way or the other by June. If I have to leave for work every day by 7:15 and don?t get home till close to 7 I may not want morning and evening chores on top of that but I?ll see how it goes.
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My dad milked 35 cows at 5 in the morning (he woke me up at 4:30 to go out and herd them in- I was 8-11 years old at the time) and was at his carpentry job by 8 every morning, for several years. You can do it, I'm bettin' on ya.
 
Yeah we had some young good farmers here in the late 50's and all thru the 60's that had there own 6 yard gravel truck, and hauled gravel for the county,5 days a week,at that time they live loaded it under the conveyor belt, off the crusher, plus milked cows,, for the hours they must of put in, and put up hay and silage besides!
 
maybe just an optical illusion, but it looks to me like a close squeeze, getting the skidsteer down the feeder and back out w/o incident.
 
My complements to you for your hard work. I would venture a bet that the majority of the contributors to this site have long hours stories to tell from their youth. How do we get kids today to see the value?
 
I believe it comes from demands made by their parents in their youth. I believe it comes from society standards that set rewards and punishments commenserate with the deeds. I believe that we turn our youth around before they can become "freebies are deserved" nnalert (socialists). I believe we shut off the abundant propaganda media by rejecting them. I believe we take charge of our education systems and teach our TRUE history. Generations raised by television and now a generation raised with social media will be (is) the deterioration of our country.
 
I believe you are right, it?s going to take quite awhile to happen but some day they?ll take more pride in their work and develop stronger work ethics when they have to.
 
Thank you for the great photo Phillip. Nothing better than the smell of beef cattle and listening to them eating. Good therapy I always say. Kow Farmer Kurt
 
There's hope for them durn kids yet, but I tend to agree with this critic:


?The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.?

Of course, that was Socrates, complaining about the upcoming generation- a little over 100 generations ago........
 
When I had to have a real job it was always 60 hours a week. I used a steer stuffer full of ground ear corn with supplement mixed in to feed usually about ten steers I would finish on the side. I would fill it on the weekends and would be good to go for the week and didn't have to be there at an exact time everyday for feeding. I just checked in on them, or someone else did, a couple times a day to make sure everything is ok. I still do the same thing so my wife and I are able to travel some and I just have someone look in on them morning and night which doesn't require allot of work on their part.

That might work for you although doing that for 52 steers is allot different then 10 or so like I do. Might have to downsize the operation a little. Like you, I just enjoy have a few head around to care for and watch grow and get the satisfaction of producing a quality product for my beef customers.
 
I was talking to the guys where I?m doing ojt next week,their current hours are 7-3:30, that?d get me home before 5 so if I can score a position there it would work.
 

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