Month: December 2017

Bugaboo, 2 year old bred Jersey milk cow, is the new addition to our family. I’m as excited as a kid at Christmas! She’s gentle and broke to lead…time will tell about the use of her tail and hind feet in relation to me and the milk bucket!

Finished the last of the main fall work with pregnancy testing. The cattle couldn’t have worked better as they corralled then went through the alley and chute like clock work, Tim averaged testing a cow every 45 seconds, and we were able to sort off the open and old cows. With Shawn, Ed, Jess, Jake, Tim, Sonny and me, no one had to work too hard. And we decrepit “Old Wrinklies” got to stay horseback the whole time!

We feed the heifer calves ground hay and cake pellets. The video is proof that Jess is low man on the totem pole so eats dust as he forks the ground hay into the feeders while at 83 Sonny takes the “choice” job – packing the 5 gallon buckets of pellets!