The Morning Report Another wonderful Sunday morning; even though we didn’t win the power ball or the lottery. Do you ever wonder what you would do it you actually one of those big pots? I figure I would keep on doing what I’m doing just with bigger and better equipment until the money ran out. Oh well another few days of dreaming then another chance at winning. I took Alvin on a tour of the farm and he seemed pleased. He wasn’t as rambunctious as he is around the house. He paid little attention to the cows; I think he might have been a little afraid of them. We watched him trying to scare one next to the fence at the house yesterday and it was hilarious. He would get about 20 feet from the cow and leap at her and when she didn’t move, he would jump backwards. If she moved he would move even further backwards. I think that eventually he got close enough to touch noses with the calf but you could tell that he was very nervous. Of course Molly was watching him and looking at him like he was an idiot. I think that Molly would have been helping him but she is trying to get over and injured foot from either Alvin or allergies. She went to the vet Friday and got a shot and her feet are doing better but she hasn’t made it back to her normal self. I also believe that she likes the pampering that she is getting. She also is a wimp when it comes to feeling a little bad; although we really don’t know how bad she feels, it might be worse than we think,; but if you watch her, sometimes she forgets about it. The hay field at the house in Astatula is almost done. If nothing happens I will finish mowing it this morning. It probably would have been done yesterday but the fence guys showed up at our house and I wanted to be there to make sure what I wanted done, was done. The cow pens are pretty well done except for a spring that I need to put on the new parting gate. The pens are ready for the fall working of the cows and selling calves. Most of the larger ones will be sold, some of the best heifers will be kept back as replacements; the steers will be separated along with some large heifers that need to be weaned and hopefully that will be done in the next couple of weeks. It is a sad time to take the calves away but it is a good time also to see some money come in from the work with them for the past few months. This is the time that you get find out if your efforts were profitable or not. We will get to listen to the cows bellowing, searching for their calves for a few days and then things will get back to normal and the new baby calves are already starting to arrive. This is one of the problems that we have is that some of these cows already have a large calf in the pasture and it wants to nurse along with the new one and there isn’t really enough milk for both of them. We have a couple of cows that will let almost any persistent calf nurse not only their own and that sometimes is a problem in that the youngest one isn’t getting enough milk. What really gets to me is that none of the nursing mother took up the Dobie calves, and they have been surviving on their own. Inherently Dobie calves just don’t grow out as quick as the other calves or look as well. It would be good if you had the time to pen these calves up and feed them a high protein feed while they are growing but there again it goes to the expense and the time put into it and I just don’t have the time even though I would like to. I’ve been told a lot about these Dobie calves and the information is as opposite as you can imagine. One side says that they will grow to be the best mothers there is and the other side says that they will never grow to be any good as mothers or as cows. Y’all have a great and wonderful day and remember to take a moment to smell the roses!
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:50:53 +0000
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