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We had May weather in April... many days in the 70-80's... flirted with 90 a couple days. Unheard of for a normal April.. On top of that not much rain at all... a few showers of .1 - .3 tenths... NOT RAIN... just a passing sprinkle really. Our pastures are half what they should be, hayfields...

Happy Mother's Day to all. It is sunny but we MIGHT get lucky and get some rain/showers tonight. We are needing rain very very badly. The sun and nice days in the 60-70's is good for getting some things done... BUT.... we are short on pasture that should be up to our knees, hay is so short...

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17 actual this morning, but going to get into the mid 30's plus. Monday night and tues was rough, 18 but only 30 day, with wind chill in the single digits Mon night, and then 20's Tuesday. We will get a bit of a warming trend, days in the 40's nights in the 20's which is how it should be...

High Choice, Low Prime... More like it would go prime in the store. My Jersey beef goes prime most all the time... Looks good.

Glad to see you post. Sorry for the rough times... Prayers for your sister, hope that you can somehow enjoy the visit and be glad to be back to see her and I think you have other family there. :hugs:hugs🙏🙏🙏

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Those are made for smaller calves... you can do up to a 250-300 lb calf with them...they stretch pretty good to a size... and with calves you often pull one side at a time through when they are larger.... anything big or more mature we use the callicrate bander... or some use a "california...

So very sorry for these people... Flooding is horrible, but for the river to come up that fast from basically nothing is even worse. Prayers for all the people there.

Happy Father's Day to the dads on here, to the memories of dad's that have gone to their just rewards... and to all those that mentored or tutored or stood in as a dad figure in someone's life. Thank you to all who have stepped up one way or another...

Find a store, area that caters to mennonites and some of the more "modern amish".... they do not like or have all the electronic stuff... If I ever have to buy a gas stove again, it will come from PA where there are alot of amish and mennonites... NO electronic ignition on the stoves... no...

Manual one that has the wafer??? The wafer is going bad... they do that.. All the local farm supply stores here local do not keep them in stock. I just ordered some from Jeffers (Or Valley vet?? ) because the incubators that DS has as well as the brooders in the "battery tower" are all wafer...

Chilly 46 overnight here. Much cooler than normal, for a good part of May with LOTS of rain... Had nearly 9 inches for the month... 3-4 is normal... CRAZY since we were way behind in moisture and warmer than normal prior to May coming in... Wanted to move the Turkey poults out to the calf...

I had no idea either...

May as well milk something that you like to look at..... She is kinda pretty...