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Wordless Wednesday: Blizzard Babies
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Calving in a Blizzard Video
I managed to throw together a video for today’s blizzard. We were lucky and haven’t received near the record amounts of snow across the state. We’re counting our blessings!
Tis the Season for Pysanky
The huge blizzard they predicted? It hit south of us but as of this evening, hasn’t made its appearance here. We were due to get most of it tomorrow, so I’ll see what I wake up to! The wind did blow all day and it was cold, so I sat down and pulled out my…
Chasing Grass
Well, we had 6-8” of snow on the ground two days ago, and it’s gone today. Anything slightly tilted to the south is dry, but snow remains on the north sides of hills, and there’s still plenty of mud in spots. Never fear, there’s a winter storm warning out for the next few days, with…
Spring? Clean
Relatively warm overnight, with no snow, and enough wind to strip what had fallen back a great deal… made for a good night of calving! No entries into my “calf in a bag”! Yippee! That meant my morning could be turned over to something I’ve been neglecting… spring cleaning my chicken coop! Whoop. Whoop. I…
Glen
With the storm that blew in last night, I knew I’d better just wait for Vernon to bring me the calf or calves. Sure enough… This big, 100 or 110 pound boy was not extremely cold, even if one ear was partially frozen. But he was still wet, so into my calf cooking bag he…
#TBT: Red Dirt Shirts, v.2.0
This was first posted March 25, 2012. I tried this earlier… on a tshirt for a friend, then on a canvas bag. Remember those Dirt Bags? I wasn’t happy. So I had to try again. I went and bought just a men’s white tshirt. I threw some mud at it and look what happened! (before washing it…)…
Wordless Wednesday: Frost Against the Blue
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Legacy
Tent Calf is still in the special care section. His mom seems slightly less cranky, but she’s not really happy about being a mother. Maybe a few more days of attitude adjustment… I was looking through my photos, and found this one from two days ago… Indy checking out the cows. She hasn’t had that…
Tent Calf 2
I was happy with the progress of my not-so-little calf. But he was only one… and we had more cows to attend to. Our Sandhills Method experiment was ready to move onward. We would leave the pairs that had been born in the lot behind… and take the remaining to the pasture around our haystack,…
Tent Calf
Nine inches of wet wet snow. Again, as I was shoveling my sidewalk, and preparing to go help Vernon, he arrived and unloaded a calf. Dang it. I ran to open the gate and door. The calf was sopping wet. He would throw his head backwards. I don’t know what you call it, but that…
Still Snowing
Here we go again. Moving them into this lot didn’t slow calving down, once again we had about 18 calves as a one day total. They’ve been awfully steady. One calf was missing, its mom searching but not finding. We all went on the hunt… putting in lots of man hours. Brandon finally found it…