Yesterday, Dan went to Jamie's farm (the guy we bought our cows from) and helped him separate cows and their young, and move breedable stock in with the bull. Well, they tried moving the bull and he wasn't interested. When a several thousand pound bull bucks and fights with you, apparently, you leave him be.
Jamie lent us a few 12 foot gates and Dan has set them up in the barnyard pasture in the form of a small corral, using the barn as part of the enclosure. One side is open and that is where we will feed them hay and water them for a while. We need them to get used to going into the enclosure because soon it will be time for banding them - make them into steers.
They are starting to get rough with each other. The one tagged w/#11 (or Hamburger, as Abby named him) got his tag torn out of his ear at some point, I assume when they were 'rasslin-round' with each other. They are sometimes pretty interested in the "gal-cow" next door.
Dan cleaned some of this things off of shelving we had in the barn. I'm going to put the shelving in side my back glass door and start a little greenhouse. I definitely want to be more in control this year of when I have my garden coming in. As in NOT all at once! Hoping to fine-tune my salsa recipe and take a run at selling more of that. So, I need to dig into my garden plans and the seed books and get some decisions made about that. Also, need to get going on my research about what to do with my apple trees. They need severe help! And the grape vine...........so much to do - But, still having fun! Thank you, Lord!
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