so this is my most recent addition to my orchid family. 11 blooms!!
These are the 30 or so beef cows that ricks dad holds on to for some odd reason, when times get tough we sell one or two. They are kept up near the main farm during the winter and put out to pasture for the summer. They are pretty cool very wild, not like the milking cows, who are mostly docile. they keep me company when im putting hay in to the small calves hutches, although the smaller beef calves like to squeeze through the fence and eat my hay! This picture, i just love, it was as the sun was rising, most of the valley you see in the backround is part of what the snomobeilers call "quesnel flats"
so now that the big switch to digital has happened and we no longer have tv ill be posting more which is good although i do miss my morning cartoons!
Short list of things ive learned on the farm.
1 if your cold, your not working hard enough.
2 go to the gym bah! run everywhere when your at the farm, you may look like a retard but no one cares!
3 the miricle of life can be helped along with some bailing twine and smooth straight pull.
4 cows eat the afterbirth, and its very important in the development of colostrum (health smoothy from mothers teat)yuck am i going to want to do that!!!
5 no matter who you are if you put your time in at the farm, the family will love you
6 cows/bulls really can smell fear,try not to show it...they know
7 a cow in distress can sound alot like a dinosaur.
8 Love and compassion go a very long way with sick/dying calves. we have a few that have survived on only this.
9 you know you are doing something right when the big guy brings his buddies down to show them the calf operation.
10 a calf can stand up and walk/nurse minutes after birth Amazing!
This calf (1156) is now 8 months old and about 400 lbs!
1157 (left)1158(center)1159(right) These are dutch belts (oreo cookie cows)the white stripe is softer fur than the black arnt they just so cute!
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3 comments:
I love this post! You are so lucky you get to be part of a farm! I love those calves with the white belts...they look fancy! Do they get to go out and play?
sometimes they get out or we let them out and go crazy! but they are not easy to catch, you pretty much have to catch them off guard and then tackle them. but when they get bigger they "graduate" in to larger and larger pens where they begin to get weined thenwhen they are fully weined and eating feed and grain they go down the road to the heffer barn and then to the heffer field then they go in with the herd.
I love that you are posting more and this post is sooo much fun! It is wonderful that you enjoy your time on the farm so much! Hope all is well!
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