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<blockquote data-quote="skyline" data-source="post: 502055" data-attributes="member: 5305"><p>Trey & KB, I was thinking about this topic last night as I put out hay. I bet you can relate to this. With a full time (plus) day job and a family, I do most of my cattlework in the dark. In the morning, I'm at the barn before light to feed the horses and I try to time it just right so that I can cube the cows right at sunrise (so I get to work on time) - I kinda like to see what's going on with them when I put out their feed in the morning. Most of the time, I get home from work or kid's activities (games, etc...) after dark, so I'm putting out round bales after the cows have laid down at night. Last night I was thinking it's a wonder that my cows don't have retina problems from being checked with a spotlight. I've come home from work the day before a holiday and found a problem - wound up being at the vet's with a cow on Thanksgiving morning this year. I look forward to Saturdays so that I can try to tackle a project like replacing a water tank float valve, sling some ryegrass seed, check fences after a storm, put out some mineral or salt, go to the feedstore, or heaven forbid hang a new gate or build some fence. But invariably, the family has something way more pressing than that going on. So most of my good ideas never get done.</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I like having cows or I would sell them all. It's just dang sure difficult to balance it all out with the rest of life, isn't it? I was just thinking that ya'll could relate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skyline, post: 502055, member: 5305"] Trey & KB, I was thinking about this topic last night as I put out hay. I bet you can relate to this. With a full time (plus) day job and a family, I do most of my cattlework in the dark. In the morning, I'm at the barn before light to feed the horses and I try to time it just right so that I can cube the cows right at sunrise (so I get to work on time) - I kinda like to see what's going on with them when I put out their feed in the morning. Most of the time, I get home from work or kid's activities (games, etc...) after dark, so I'm putting out round bales after the cows have laid down at night. Last night I was thinking it's a wonder that my cows don't have retina problems from being checked with a spotlight. I've come home from work the day before a holiday and found a problem - wound up being at the vet's with a cow on Thanksgiving morning this year. I look forward to Saturdays so that I can try to tackle a project like replacing a water tank float valve, sling some ryegrass seed, check fences after a storm, put out some mineral or salt, go to the feedstore, or heaven forbid hang a new gate or build some fence. But invariably, the family has something way more pressing than that going on. So most of my good ideas never get done. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I like having cows or I would sell them all. It's just dang sure difficult to balance it all out with the rest of life, isn't it? I was just thinking that ya'll could relate. [/QUOTE]
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