Cattle
Life with cattle
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Some days on the Farm are sad. Final Baby Girl story.
Warning…..this is not a happy, feel good post. For all of you that haven been following Baby Girl, you can read about her here, I have sad news. We went to feed her the other day and found her dead. My Farmer and I are both very sad about it. We both had become very attached to her, even though she was becoming quite a nuisance. We wonder what the cause of her death was and if there was something we could have done. She had so many problems through out her short life. We are guessing that she must have had more problems then we knew about. That’s the…
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Bringing in the New Year…..in a corral, at the backside of a heifer
Every New Years Eve, my Farmer and I have the same conversation……”Remember that year we spent New Years Eve in the corral pulling that calf?” Oh yes, how could I forget….a very memorable, bonding experience. My Farmer and I have had many of these bonding experiences over the years. (click here to read about another time) We have come to appreciate our bonding times. They make us stronger, or at least that’s what the counselor told us. (haha, smiling here) This one bonding moment came on that one New Years Eve that was 9 months after a bull had gotten out and into where he was not suppose to be….with…
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Making Silage…..or as we call it….Making Islage.
This year we made islage. What the heck is islage, you may ask. If I was to say we made silage, or even say ensilage, then you may know what I am talking about. I think it’s one of those “farm terms” that some call it this and some call it that and others call it this and that. I think I’ve even heard it called haylage. Whatever the correct terminology is, on our farm, it’s islage. Evidently that’s not a word. According to Google anyways. But, since this is my blog and I am in control, I am calling it islage. It’s easier to spell a word the way…
