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here are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Aldo Leopold

18 April 2006

...and now its calving time



3 comments:

Yeoman said...

Here too.

KGT (aka Cagey) said...

Makin out ok? Not too wet or cold that way? We could actually use some rain here...

Yeoman said...

We've been really lucky. Our winter was pretty dry, but not as dry as some recent ones. We got quite a bit of snow in March, and that got a good start on things, but then it really dried up. But the last couple of weeks we've gotten quite a bit more snow.

Almost all our heifers have calved now, and we branded a bunch of cows (not calves) last week. There too, we were lucky. It was a beautiful morning, and it started to cloud up and rain that afternoon.

So far, calving has gone very well. If it holds, we should be off to a good start this year.