Yesterday consisted mostly of tagging and doing more vaccinating of the springing heifers that are on the farm. Brittany came out to give a hand and did all the recording for us. Bringing the heifers through the milkshed yard really set things off for that herd to start calving. We went from 2 calves to 8 calves literally overnight. So today we had to draft out 6 fresh heifers (that means they calved) from the rest of the herd along with trying to match up all their calves to each heifer. We went from having 5 cows coming in for milking to 13 cows today. It has definitely made things more exciting around the farm!
Today I also got to play modern day cowboy again on my "Harley" (a.k.a. my dirtbike) as we moved 400 cows half way back to the farm from the run-off block. They should arrive on the farm to start calving on Monday or Tuesday next week. I am sure a lot will happen in the next week so I will try to keep things updated!
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