PDF 11 7 2018

[pdfangus]

No big news at the farm today..all goats were present and accounted for....I am liking BUCKY, the new kiko Billy. He. Is real good natured and comes every time I rattle a bucket. I can already lead him with his collar and he is not aggressive at all. Very laid back.

Today was the day scheduled to begin synchronization of my cows for breeding. They all had to have a shot. I had sorted them out yesterday and put them in a lot. Went to get them and the calves were missing. They had slipped thru the electric fence and I had to go round them up and drive them back to the cows....ever tried to drive a hand full of two month old calves..finally got them back with the mamas and walked every body to the barn....that was the hard part...
My cows had not been to the barn since last year's breeding at Thanksgiving weekend.

But they went into the barn and into the pens and all six of them filed into the chute..that's right. All six of them auto loaded.

My secret is that I feed them a small cup of feed every time I put them thru the chute. My cows like to go thru the chute. The biggest problem I had was that Wanda was at the back of the line and she wanted to be at the front of the line. She kept pushing those in front of her. Wanda is a dainty little 1500 lb girl and nobody wants to be between her and groceries.

 

[T & B farms]

I’m to the conclusion there is nothing more dumb than a 1-3 month old calf.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

If I had calves get out, it would be easier to let the cows out and gather them back up as pairs. Babies are terrible to try to move. At least you were moving them TO their dam. Good job!!!
What sync protocol are you using? I will be starting breeding the weekend after Thanksgiving, I believe. Gotta check dates. Shooting for 9-1 start calving.
What's with the goats? Meat goats? How many?

 

[pdfangus]

I use the Michigan G6G protocol on my cows and heifers....I have had pretty good luck with it...
thanksgiving weekend is my target...

my neighbor uses the Select Sync with CIDR and I do the breeding...

I just don't like the CIDR and have seen some pretty nasty ones come out....

the G6G protocol has a few more shots but since my cows go thru the chute so easy.... shots are not a problem for me...

actually these calves were pretty easy to drive..they stayed together and we just eased along...actually went pretty slick.

 

[pdfangus]

forgot to respond about the goats...
my goats are my farm beautification crew...blackberries and honeysuckle and multiflora rose and weeds etc...I have had nubians but they are not very hardy.
Have had several die....
bought a Kiko buck this summer and the guy held him for me until now. Just picked him up a week ago...Kikos are supposed to be very hardy and they are meat goats....self sustaining farm beautification is the goal but if we have a surplus goats sell pretty well around here.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

We purchased goats many, many years ago in Kansas - to clean up brush. They would do a great job ..... while you were out in the brush. They would not venture out alone. They stayed at the house (on the steps, on the vehicles), everywhere they should NOT. When company came, we had to be sure they closed their windows or the goats were IN their car/truck, eating whatever. We couldn't tie one out somewhere so the others would browse, because we had too many coyotes.
Real long story, shortened:
Hubby bought a used bike. Needed electrical work. We skimped and saved, finally got enough to send it off to be fixed.
Got it home. Yeah!
Local school football night. Hubby wanted to ride bike, but I said kinda silly to take two vehicles (had a 4 yr old daughter).
Left bike on concrete pad. Came home in the dark, daughter was sound asleep, so I carried her into house. All of a sudden - blam blam balm. Scared the beloved out of me.
You guessed it. Goats tore all the wiring up on bike. Hubby was eliminating goats - in the dark.
Next morning (this is no exaggeration). We had a vet coming. He would not like the slaughtered goats, so we gathered them up (I think 4) and put them in the truck. Like all old farms, we had a dump out back, so we backed the truck up & dumped out the goats. Truck was stuck. Neighbor was going by, flagged him & he pulled us out. While he was sitting on his tractor visiting in driveway, someone pulled into our driveway (about 200 yd drive). We said, "do you know who that is". He said, yup, local roper.
You guessed it.
He wanted to know if we had any goats for sale. Willing to pay good money. Neighbor almost fell off tractor. LOL

 

[callmefence]

We purchased goats many, many years ago in Kansas - to clean up brush. They would do a great job ..... while you were out in the brush. They would not venture out alone. They stayed at the house (on the steps, on the vehicles), everywhere they should NOT. When company came, we had to be sure they closed their windows or the goats were IN their car/truck, eating whatever. We couldn't tie one out somewhere so the others would browse, because we had too many coyotes.
Real long story, shortened:
Hubby bought a used bike. Needed electrical work. We skimped and saved, finally got enough to send it off to be fixed.
Got it home. Yeah!
Local school football night. Hubby wanted to ride bike, but I said kinda silly to take two vehicles (had a 4 yr old daughter).
Left bike on concrete pad. Came home in the dark, daughter was sound asleep, so I carried her into house. All of a sudden - blam blam balm. Scared the beloved out of me.
You guessed it. Goats tore all the wiring up on bike. Hubby was eliminating goats - in the dark.
Next morning (this is no exaggeration). We had a vet coming. He would not like the slaughtered goats, so we gathered them up (I think 4) and put them in the truck. Like all old farms, we had a dump out back, so we backed the truck up & dumped out the goats. Truck was stuck. Neighbor was going by, flagged him & he pulled us out. While he was sitting on his tractor visiting in driveway, someone pulled into our driveway (about 200 yd drive). We said, "do you know who that is". He said, yup, local roper.
You guessed it.
He wanted to know if we had any goats for sale. Willing to pay good money. Neighbor almost fell off tractor. LOL

I have a similar story. But it involves a dog and a new bass boat..............

 

[pdfangus]

other than the new buck going for an adventure I have pretty well figured out how to keep mine in...they are pretty good about the electric fence...but if they get scared they will go thru it....

They do like to be at the barn at night which is fine with me...

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Well, back in Kansas, all we had was barbed wire fences. THAT didn't keep them any place.