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<blockquote data-quote="mitch2" data-source="post: 541826" data-attributes="member: 6621"><p>Haven't done much traveling, but in our little neck of the woods the pastures are pathetic. We have had unseasonably cold temps well below normal for 2 months now. Above normal rain, not much but a bit. This mix has made for a bumper crop of dandelions, and very slow growth on the alfalfa and grasses. It is amazing when you top a hill and look down across the valleys, and see a lot of dirt fields, corn planting is behind 2+ weeks also, and then a field of yellow! And I mean YELLOW. </p><p></p><p>We are still feeding hay, but hopefully we will check fences this weekend, and let the girls out. We now have 2 significant pastures to rotate to this year, so we are hoping to get some benefit out of that.</p><p></p><p>We have 4 girls left to calve, one had slipped her calf her first year, bred back and is now a fall calver. Of the other 3, one looks close a week (?) one raised the best calf of the heifers last year, I thought she held up really well, but does not look close (who knows) and the last one doesn't even look pg.... UGH. </p><p></p><p>But, I really want to get them out on pasture so it doesn't get overgrown. I will just have to walk a bit to check on them, no big deal.</p><p></p><p>Michele</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mitch2, post: 541826, member: 6621"] Haven't done much traveling, but in our little neck of the woods the pastures are pathetic. We have had unseasonably cold temps well below normal for 2 months now. Above normal rain, not much but a bit. This mix has made for a bumper crop of dandelions, and very slow growth on the alfalfa and grasses. It is amazing when you top a hill and look down across the valleys, and see a lot of dirt fields, corn planting is behind 2+ weeks also, and then a field of yellow! And I mean YELLOW. We are still feeding hay, but hopefully we will check fences this weekend, and let the girls out. We now have 2 significant pastures to rotate to this year, so we are hoping to get some benefit out of that. We have 4 girls left to calve, one had slipped her calf her first year, bred back and is now a fall calver. Of the other 3, one looks close a week (?) one raised the best calf of the heifers last year, I thought she held up really well, but does not look close (who knows) and the last one doesn't even look pg.... UGH. But, I really want to get them out on pasture so it doesn't get overgrown. I will just have to walk a bit to check on them, no big deal. Michele [/QUOTE]
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