Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A new baby calf...in June?

Little storm blew through this morning...and during calving season, storms sometimes kick-start the calving process. Spring calving season has long been done, but that's exactly what happened out in the pasture today. We have a spring cow that we didn't think was bred...she sure didn't look like she was gonna calve when the other cows did in March. When it came time to put the cows out to the summer pasture, she looked a little like she might actually be carrying a calf. And sure enough, she calved, she was just 3 months behind everyone else. Big Red had herself a little black heifer. We managed to get it tagged and vaccinated without too much excitement.

On a side note, the wheat is getting close to being ready to harvest. We bit some berries tonight in a couple different fields. They were pretty darn close in the one field, and still smushy in the other field. I'm sure some will try cutting this weekend. I'd give it another week.



Sunday, June 13, 2010

Enough with the waterworks please

Had over 3 inches of rain in town in the last 2 days, it's still raining and the everything is saturated. We went out to check our cows this evening - have one spring cow yet to calve and she's been looking like she was close this week ahead of the storm system. No baby calf yet but if she waits much longer she's gonna have to be a fall cow next year! While we were out and about, we were looking at what we think is the leading edge of the cold front (finally!) so I took a few pictures with my fun-size camera. Maybe (fingers-crossed) the rain is almost over!