On Wednesday we Preg tested our cows and finally we have faired well! Third times a charm!! The last two years we had around twenty open EACH year, this year we only had a total of four...three on Wednesday and one heifer when we tested last November at Buck's! We also included two cows in the cull pen that were pregnant but had other health concerns that really aren't worth having to deal with! It was a bitter cold and long day! It started for Jared at 7:00am when he fed some bales to get all the cows locked in the pen and then he headed over to Buck's to help them Preg test their 200 cows! They finished up around three and headed over here! We got started at 4:00pm and finished just after 5:30pm! We were very grateful to have Buck there to help us and it went very smooth! Jared ran the squeeze, I recorded, Dave moved them through and up to the squeeze and Buck brought groups into the crowding pen! We only had two cows try and escape over the wall of the alley before the squeeze and one actually got stuck just before the squeeze because she was literally too fat...I'm curious to see if she has twins!! Despite how cold it was it turned out to be a good day! I am totally done with relying on the weather report...it was supposed to be only minus three, I'm sure it was minus twenty with the wind! But after we were all done we had hot and super yummy stew, which really helped thaw us out!
We have two cows, who we have just been keeping until they get a little fatter to slaughter, that we call our nerd cows because they are really funny looking! Well the one especially, even the vet doesn't know what is wrong with her nose, to me she looks like she has a donkey head! And both are quite short! But they keep plugging along!
I was glad to hear that not many were open this year.
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