Plans are in place for the remaining five heifers and one steer (all from 2022) to go to auction the middle of this month. Also there are plans for Sweetie, The Terrible, and Calfie, elf slipper feet, to also be sold. Both have calves tho one is about three months old and the other is barely two weeks old. Very sad state of affairs!
Sweetie's baby, Stripe, has had a tough time. He has trouble nursing for unknown reasons. We have mama and baby separated up by the barn so hopefully the little guy can learn to eat baby calf food. He's doing a little better everyday. His mom will be gone in a couple weeks so he really needs to learn fast. Getting mom and baby up to the barn was a pretty scary experience. Sweetie, The Terrible, snorted and chased everyone trying to get near the baby and near her. Finally, we were successful and hopefully we can save Stripe.
We are down to three big bales of hay. The pastures are greening up some with spring grasses. We've had a little rain to help but the farmers say we need a whole lot more. We are just happy we made it through the winter as well as we have. Peg probably bought 40-50 small bales over the winter to supplement the hay we had. We use these bales to line the cow shacks, add to rings, etc..
We have some one coming out to clean up all of the downed tree limbs from the ice storm from last month. It's going to take a while to cut the limbs up, stack, and burn everything.
Had a smoke detector chirping the other day. What horrible torcher that is!!!! We managed to remove the battery and it stopped. Peg and I changed out all of the batteries in all of the smoke detectors at the beginning of January so we know that detector has died. Since the house is ten years old, the old detectors are starting to fail. We will be replacing all of them (8) in the next few months.
Nothing else happening. WE enjoy good health and a wonderful lifestyle!!
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