We raise cattle and show them at fairs and livestock shows.We mostly raise Simmental cattle with a few Maine Anjou in the herd. This is all about how we take care of them.
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It is getting colder every day, but to night it got 10 degrees with high winds. So we put straw in for the cows. 15 minutes after we had put the two bales of straw, most of the cows had laid down.
Weaning the calves was better then last time. Last time we had weaned the calves and they had mooed till they were hoarse. Today we moved the cows to the corn stalks. The cows were very happy to be out in the the corn stalks with all their pales.
We had been asked a couple of times before if we wean our calves by the sign of the moon. No we did not. We weaned when it fit our schedule. Even though we had heard about weaning by the moon, we never tried it. Well the last time we weaned this...
We are starting to get ready for the cows and calves be weaned. It has rained a lot so we can't get into the fields, because it rained more then 3 inches. We couldn't go to Louisville because we were in the field. Dad was sad we couldn't go to the show...
