The Routine of Winter
Daylight hours are short. But once the sun is up enough to see, someone is out checking the hospital pen. This is a pen where chronics and poor doing calves […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
The lull of winter
As things slow down in the winter months and daylight hours are short we turn our attention to hauling grain. All the work from summer (seeding, growing, spraying, harvest) is […]
Tub Grinding
Once upon a time, we used bale feeders, or a combination of bale feeders and tub grinding. Basically everything for the calves in the backgrounding lot now have hay and greenfeed […]
Winter Grazing
When temperatures dropped in mid-December, we moved the cows closer to home where they had more shelter and were easier to access with feed. But as the weather has warmed […]