So sorry about your bad news Suzie....
Yes Melking, $16 an hour is correct. How does that compare?
Ken, out of our six sets of facilities in total, only two have shelters and those are the main yards on each place. This is where the weaners are carted to and we like them to have some shade available. Our weaners are always well catered for, as much hay as they can eat, shade and water.
The calf has managed to connect with the cow now and I'll let them out as soon as its cool enough to do so, maybe tomorrow morning. She'll probably give the calf a trot getting away from the yards, so it needs to be something less than the current 43 degrees. The heifers are still calving well, havent even lost a calf in the heat. One left a little senepol newborn out in it all day yesterday (I tried to find him) and he popped up on dark, happy as larry.
Hubby is carting steer weaners to the other place tomorrow and will stay on there and help brand and wean a paddock.
Then he'll come back and we'll hop in and do another paddock here before the temps go right up again.
Anything under 41 degrees is okay - over that, the stock are best left alone (and me too!) I'm going to paint the wall on the deck of the house - I don't like the colour it is. I've chosen a dark colour, a teal, bit of a risk but it should look good. Then I had hubby cart a tiptruck load of manure/mulch over from the cattleyards and I'm going to barrow that around the garden as well as top up the potplants.