I think we just set a speed record for a full herd health session with all 230 animals getting their Ivomec shots, any scheduled vaccines, ADE paste (in the case of anyone < 1 year of age), as well as their bi-monthly toe nail trims over the course of a couple of days. With the…
It’s been a tough few months for a couple of the male crias up at the Arena. First in the days before Christmas Juliet’s little guy, Undici (he was born on 11/11/11), somehow managed to get stepped on or kicked. Though we initially took it to be a soft tissue injury in his ankle joint,…
At least that’s how I’m choosing to interpret the arrival of close to a foot of snow last night. The last time we were due to trim nails herd-wide back in January it snowed several inches as well. Seems to me the evidence is pretty clear. Either that or the good Mother is just poking…
No, not that way. I mean really: get your mind out of the gutter! This is after all a (mostly) family-oriented blog. How about PG-13? Alright, never mind. In any case we seem to have two modes on this farm when it comes to the offseason here between the months of November and March (at…
Remember when it was cold in the Northeast last weekend? Yeah, shocking but true it is still — at least according to the calendar — winter here, yet we have all been made so soft by the mild temperatures of the past couple of months that when Mother Nature actually acted normally we all started…
We have almost come to view it as tradition: we go away for a little R&R somewhere and the you-know-what inevitably hits the fan in one form or another back here on the farm. Hey, with a herd this size it’s just par for the course, especially during cold weather (ok, relatively cold weather). Not…
