Alyeska and Manure Spreading

Ginger had Alyeska this morning!

It was cold this morning,

so the first several hours were spent manure spreading.

They made good headway.

Beauty in the Crazy

We welcomed three new bull calves yesterday!

Mammoth was discovered at morning chore time.

His mom is Lovey.

(His mom cleaned him up all sparkly clean after we moved him in!)

Then we had to fill all the equipment with diesel

so we could order more.

We moved Havanna in a little before Zermott was born.

After everyone got home from work

it was conference time.

Then Ben cleaned the shed

while Paul, Elsie, Hannah, Molly and Jack moved animals around.

Clean bedding was spread everywhere.

Alta, Mammoth, and Zermott liked playing outside 

in the fresh corn stalks.

Finally, at 7:20,

the last one of the day was born.

The short horn had Arapahoe.

His mom wanted to keep him outside

but Ben wanted him in.

A little bath before bedtime.

Mammoth was overly lazy and lethargic

so Ben and Elsie worked with him and his mom.

Elsie and Molly tried him on a bottle.

He's stubborn.

 Alta wanted to sleep outside.

But she was moved into the shed.

She drifted right off to dreamland.

Alta

The first one is here!

Paul and I went errand running Friday after he got off work.

(We were buying a radio receiver, not toilet paper!!)

We got home around 8:10 and decided to make one last barn check.

There was a calf on the way!

20 minutes later tiny little Miss Alta was here!

All of the yearling calves came to greet the newcomer.

Alta is a small but mighty little thing.

Maybe even a little naughty.

At 9:30 Paul and I went out to check her right before bed.

She had been trying to escape and had gotten herself stuck.

We fixed everything again so she couldn't escape or get stuck.

 At 12:30 we went out again.

She hadn't had anything to eat yet 

so we got her going on that before we finally headed for bed.

And Saturday she was as happy and bouncy

as she could be!

We Moved the First One In

The time is getting closer.

We moved the first heifer in last night.

Yes, I know there are two in there.

She wanted company.

We are going to try calving in the shed 

instead of the little barn this year.

Not Funny

The snow was mostly gone.

The frost is mostly out.

The puddles are mostly dry.

I do not find this humorous at all!!

It's a good thing 

that tomorrow is supposed to be 49*.

NYFD Training

Last night Luke had snow mobile accident training with the fire department.

They needed victims to rescue.

Jack fit the bill.

Mark and Anna are working on Jack and his broken leg here.

It must have worked.

He came home in one healthy piece.

A New Investment

I happened to be walking down to get the mail 

when the boys came home 

with their new investment.

Now if only spring would hurry up and arrive

so all the farmers can start baling

and they can start wrapping.