Saturday, November 20, 2010

Cowboy'n




Part of what I really really love about living on this little piece of the planet here, is the awesome neighbors we have. We each have our own cow herds....ours is tiny at 40 head, compared to our neighbors 500+ , but no matter the size every animal is important to us all, and without each others help, it would be much more difficult to manage them. All the fall chores are nearly done, our neighbors herd has all been preg checked, and the last chore on the list for them was to move the heifers back north and join them with their main cow herd. We did that this morning, it was nippy out (about -15c) very thankful for insulated Carhartts! The sun came out tho making a rather pleasant ride.

Monday, the 22nd is weaning day for us, and with our neighbors help we'll wean, apply RFID tags, and load the steer calves and take them to town to the Auction Mart for tuesday's sale. We'll keep the heifer calves for a while, to decide on replacements, and then the balance of them will be sold.


Thursday, November 4, 2010

So much to do, so little time!



Wow, its seems like its been forever since I posted anything here! Life's been busy. I got my new lambs, and they are growing really well. Hopefully they will be the neucleus of my new registered flock of Katahdins. We finally got all our hay brought in from the fields and put into the stack yard. Things have been tidied up and put away ready for winter, although with the spectacular weather we've had for almost all of October, and the first few days of November, its hard to believe that winter will soon be upon us. Now that the mosquitoes have been killed off and the sun has come out, I have started working Shay on my really dog broke "puppy" sheep. She's coming along really well.....here's a short video of her on day 4 of training.


Chili has become the go-to dog at home and helps with the cattle, and she also brings in the sheep and sorts the puppy sheep out for Shay :o)

The top picture is of Chili and the new lambs the first time they had been worked by a dog.