Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[woodland]

Spring has arrived .......... finally 😎
First double digit (positive) temp since mid October and it’s long overdue. Started tearing apart some of the snow piles in the calving fields to help eliminate some mud for the next month hopefully.


Don’t need rubber boots to get from the house to the shop finally. Butterflies, bees, and flies popped back out today too. Hit 20% of calves out and hopefully the issues are all out of the way. We finished building a calf catcher and it’s working great.




The cows follow the calves out the gate great but the first calvers not so much as we expected.

So nice not to need the insulated coveralls and to see some grass poking up. 🍀

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Are you using it just for catching and processing, or also for moving pairs out to new pens, is that what you mean by momma's following? How do you move them without a floor? Or are they able to take the hint and walk along inside?

[Sheepwheat]

Plus two today here. Tomorrow they say 13. Twould be grand! First lambs today

[woodland]

Are you using it just for catching and processing, or also for moving pairs out to new pens, is that what you mean by momma's following? How do you move them without a floor? Or are they able to take the hint and walk along inside?

We move the pairs out to a different field after they get tagged every day. If we get behind a couple of days it becomes too confusing for checking and dealing with them.



The front side of the carrier box flips down to put the calf in and to process them if it’s muddy.

You then put the front side back up to lock them in the carrier box at the back.

There is a gate in the back to let them out of the carrier box.

It’s modeled after a Lakeland version and they have several YouTube videos of it. It took a couple of days to build but I think it will save more time than that in a week or two. Now tagging and moving out is a one person operation, safer, and quicker than what we did before.

Should have done it years ago.

How do you do it AF5?

[shtferbrains]

Nice work. Looks real professional.

[Guest]

Plus two today here. Tomorrow they say 13. Twould be grand! First lambs today

-3 high today here
Only snowed a couple mins this morning

[makar]

While I am very glad for y’all, is it only me that too often feels I don’t do anything right?

No not only you, we need a support group, bring beer, it used to be called a bar.