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Remembering the Night I Saved a Cow and her Calf
There is a point, as it is melting in the fields, that the snow becomes soft enough that the cows can walk through but we can not drive our ATVs through it. Cows have a tendency to walk as far away as possible to calve. When you put the two together, it can turn into trouble. When this happened last week, we drove the tractor out and rescued the cow and her calf. As we were doing this, I was reminded of a story from 2 years ago. I shared the story then on my old blog site. I figured I might as well share it again on this blog…
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Speeding up the Melting Process…my Farmer’s Way
If you are a follower of Livin’ the Life, the Farm Life that is on Instagram or Facebook , (if you are not, you need to be!! Click on the buttons and follow me!) you have seen me post a few pictures of us moving to a new feeding area with the cows. We have learned that when it becomes time to start calving, it is very important for us to move the cows to an area different from where they had been fed all winter. Some years this is not a big deal. We just drive to a different spot in the field. However, on big snow years, moving…
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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…
