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Good news...I got Jack back last week. He will eat from the bucket, but he won't cross muddy wet fields...guess what I have...muddy, wet fields. O well, I left the inner gate opened for him to come closer to the buildings but he won't cross the gate. The cows can't get out because they are...

OK so I spend 5 nights on the road and I get a call that tells me "oops...I left a gate open and the cows got out...so I got the cows back in but the llama escaped and the dogs spooked him so he ran away". He has been gone ever since. I am devatated. Needless to say I am fuming to say the...

It has been a while since I posted anything here. I've been working so much out of the house that I reallyy haven't had time to tell what is going on...until now. My "critter count" has risen precipitously; to wit: 8 cattle (unchanged) 19 chickens (18 pullets, 1 hen) 1 llama 4 pigs (2 sows, 2...

Well, I've been "on the road" now for about 9 days. I called the farm and they wanted to know who I was and what I wanted? This going to work thing is getting to be a bad habit. We're expecting a big blizzard today with what we are told is 4-12" snow fall. O great! Just what I want at the...

Guess I've been working way too much. Haven't been here for a while. Not much has changed, but the temperatures have risen only a bit. They have however come up above the zero mark most days now. I started working on stick welding a couple of weekends ago. I guess the reason was multiple. I...

Polar fleece lined pants and shirts. Add long johns if it gets really cold. Then if it gets even worse, put on a coat!

You know, there are things that set records. Somehow, there are records which I would prefer NOT to have experienced. This winter has been one of them. I am told this is the coldest winter "on record" for which my response is, "Tell me something I DON'T KNOW!" It seems that it gets so cold...

The cold just won't quit. I am still on the road a lot. I get a few hours at home and back to the road. This is getting old. Cattle are OK though. Chicken is alive. I need to start the seeds this month and the incubator is waiting to be repaired. (got a re-call on it but have been too busy to...

I don't know about not feeling pain but he has certainly been a LOT more mellow for the past two days. He has only demanded to go out for the usualy requirements although yesterday he really wanted to play. I tried to explain to him that he was SIQ (sick in quarters) for the day to let that...

My "Buddy" went running with me yesterday. He ran 6 miles on really cold ground. I thought he was liking it. But I discovered that he had abraded his foot. Pads on the front feet and there were blood trails in the snow when we got back to the farm. I felt awful for letting him run that much. He...

OK, Not wanting to be a "KIA"(Know it all) but EPSM is a neuromuscular disease, NOT myopia. Equine polysaccharide storage myOPATHY (muscle disease) Myopia usually responds to a good pair of spectacles. (that's glasses to us farm folks) Just in case no one recognized that minor discrepancy...:lol:

:frow Welcome to the group! You have an interesting background. Where did you get that engineering degree? That is some rough country up there. Desert has some advantages but that close to Mexico eliminates many of them. Too many people. How do you manage to get up on that "tractor" if you...

Today is Sunday. I am home "for a change". Lot to do on my farm but the good news is that I have been able to find a "farm helper" who seems to like it. Often you find someone who just wants money but really doesn't want to do the work you assign to them. This one is a young woman in her early...

Well, once they have ALL the garbage collected for a single day, and an apology for picking it up, maybe they'll find more important things to do such as catch REAL criminals rather than good citizens who are cleaning up the environment. Just a suggestion...lOL

I guess it is time to bring them all the garbage you can find and let them decide what to keep...Like I said before, get all of your friends to bring ALL of THEIR garbage to the Sheriff's office and leave a note of apology for removing the garbage from its previous location. That really sounds...

Contrary to popular belief, I am still alive despite the -20*F we have been having for the past month. I was on the road from 22 DEC to 5 JAN so now am back to a more regular schedule. Am spending a lot of time chasing the frozen water fountains for the cows. They seem to like drinking water...

Here is something I learned this week. It falls into the category of "O, yeah!" A college student at the Griffith University in Australia was the winner of a contest which was to see who could write the best definition of a term, recently added to the lexicon. This year's term was "Political...

The "extreme cold" weather has finally abated for now. It has been at least -20*F around here for the past two weeks. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever warm up, if only UP to 0*F...yikes. Today it was a balmy +32*F. I could go outside and didn't use gloves to feed the llamas. (I...

Today was productive. I moved about 40 bales of hay and corn stalk bales from the field to the barn yard; seemed like it took the entire day. I started about 9am and had to quit at about 5:20 Pm because it was so dark. Im really not sure why they put lights on a tractor but when you are...

Is it me, or has something changed? Did anybody notice that we just haven't heard anything about Syria lately? Did those folks just make up and quit or did something else becomes more important? It always amazes me that the mainstream media can't multitask. They seem to glom on to one serious...