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Dave from MN

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Finished the fencing yesterday afternoon. Fed my very last bale of hay this am and let the cows into their new office this afternoon. They all stood there where the gate had been opened and didnt want to cross, figured they would get zapped or something(?), then the ol Normande (Gramma), came up to see what all the comotion was about, when she saw the gate was open and there was chest high grass on the other side, she pretty muched cleared a path right throug ht the cows standing there in a stuper. They love it out there, gnats are bothering the calves, but they sure are happy. What a relief to have that fencing done. Now to start stockpiling hay as soon as haying starts and continue to pray that my crops keep growing like they are. I also have to add that Gramma's little bull calf is sure one thick long big butted brute, I am pretty impressed with him(mother Normande, father red angus, he's black). Kinda wish I would have bout a few more of the Normandes that fellow had.
 
You timed that about perfect. Wait till those calves get some grass and mama's milk on grass. Those little devil's grow like mad!
 
Dave, one thing to watch when you turn cows with young calves on lush grass is nutrinal scours in the calves. The mommas milk about doubles and once in a great while a calf will get scours from it. Usally happens within 4 or 5 days and is easy to identify by the liquid white squirting stools. Most calves recover by them selves but once in a while you have to rehydrate and treat with scour pills. They can go quick tho.
 
Thanks for the advice. They are on medicated creep feed, hope that will help. If not I"ll have a little rodeo onb my my hands to treat them. That Normande/Angus cross is a force to be reckoned with, I should have followed Allans advice and nutted him right when he was born.
 
I try to get a band on them the first day here at the house cause my catch pen is`nt the best . I missed one , did`nt find him till the second day and he could already out run a greyhound . Down at mom`s I have better facilitys and catching them is`nt a problem . I`m in the prosses of rebuilding my pens here at the house but seems everytime ya go to town the price of material has doubled so ya can only get half as much !
 
Wish I could make as much progress up here. Lumber yard delivers 100 railroad ties last week and all we have in the ground is one pink flag. 5 miles of fence to go. Cows should be going out here in the next week or two.
 
Tell ya what, was repainting the rails on the fence around the house. That's a job, but I've gotta admit it needs it. Started raining pretty hard, but seen it coming down yonder and was hot enough that what I did get to had dried, so is still there. Paint aint cheap either. $50 per 5 gallon bucket, and 6 of those to get started doing something that aint my favorite job in the world, but neither is getting nagged at because the fence around the house aint pretty.

Mark
 
Out of curiosity, what are ties going for these days? When I fenced around the house about 5 or 6 years ago, I got a couple hundred used ties at $6 a piece delivered from a lumber mill a couple of towns over. They were pretty good too. A neighbor from down the road came over and asked me today when saw me repainting my rails. He said they were going for $12 a piece at Menards and was thinking on putting one up like mine at his house.

Mark
 
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