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Calves drop when the pressure drops
Calves drop when the pressure drops. It’s TRUE. Around here, any ways. Whenever a storm hits and the air pressure drops, we can ALWAYS count on having lots of babies. Today was that day, well it actually started last night. We had 8 new baby calves born today. Yesterday we had 4. Our average is 2 or 3. Fortunately only one had to be brought to the corral to be helped. Usually when the weather is bad like it was today, it seems like they all need help eating. I’d like to know if there is a scientific reason as to why more cows have their calves when the pressure…
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Dancing with the Cows, my Farmer’s way
I feel it is time for a funny story. Since my Farmer has not done anything stupid funny lately, I pulled up my notes I keep on things to blog about and I found this story. I wrote it a few years back, after we lost our dog and before we got the current one, but never published it. As I was reading it, I found myself laughing and figured if it made me laugh, maybe it would make somebody else laugh. Yes, it is making fun of my Farmer, and he will probably not like hearing about it from his friends, SO DON’T TELL HIM!! (Ahhh what the…
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A Cow, A Hog, and A Sheep have WHAT in Common?
As I mentioned in my post about the importance of Agriculture in our everyday lives, Ag touches our lives in ways most people have never imagined. When it comes to cattle, hogs, and sheep, almost the entire body of the animal is used in one way or another to benefit humans. For example, from the body of a typical 1,000 steer, approximately 400 pounds is beef. The remainder is “by-products”. By-products are anything derived as a secondary item in processing. Though less visible, by-products from these animals play a vital role in maintaining and improving the quality of human life. The following is a list of just a few ways…
