Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Was it De Day?
Yesterday we de-wormed the heifers. That was a simple matter of tossing the mineral salt block out of the yard while we were building electric fence and tossing in the SafeGuard block. They will do the rest themselves.
Then I de-grassed the rhubarb bed (reed canary grass is an acceptable cow feed, but it is terribly invasive in a garden. If let go it thinks nothing of growing feet and feet taller than my head! Roots are as thick as my pinky finger, woody and matted. I swear I could hear the rhubarb sighing with relief when I grubbed them out. I was the one sighing by the time I got done. I am out of shape after the long winter lack of garden work.) A wheel barrow load of well-composted horse manure and the job was done. Soon to be followed by rhubarb crisp....
The boss de-clumped the thorn apple tree field (so named because his dad once accidentally put half of one of that kind of tree through the hay mower there...not much fun to get it back out.) Actually he was chisel plowing but the end result was ground that was ready for the discs.
We de-moted the milk cows to the heifer pasture. They were de-lighted because it is a great, big, green field where they de-voured new green grass until they bulged. If I had time I would have taken a few "happy cow" pics as they really were. Happy that is.
I wish you could have seen them when old Zinnia and Etrain realized that the east gate was open instead of the south gate (which let them out into the field behind the barn, which is pretty chewed over.) Zinnia let out a mighty moo, apparently calling the clan to follow, stuck out her long, snakey neck, and shuffled through the puddles by the gate like a big, black duck. As soon as E saw what was happening she trotted on by and hustled up the lane like a magnet seeking north. The whole herd followed, grazed for a few minutes by the gate, and then took a walking tour of their new digs. Every time I looked out the kitchen window, the hillside was dotted with black, white, red and Jersey brown, as they ate or lay in the grass chewing the cud. It was nice.
What's up for today? I don't know yet...de-pends on the weather.
Oh, and as a bit of a post script, Liz's original Jersey cow, Dreamroad Extreme Heather, presented her with a lovely little heifer calf about half way through the afternoon. It is cute as a wagon-load of speckled puppies.
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14 comments:
sounded like a "de" lightful day!
...didn't you have to milk "de" cows too?
happy cinqo de mayo!
I would have loved to see them all out and enjoying the new green grass! Sounds so perfect.
That calf has to be pretty darn cute then! I bet the cows LOVED the grass. Happy critters!
Great De-scription of De Day.
You certainly have a more exciting day (life) than I have. I watered grass seed and sunflower seeds and other stuff not this interesting. :)
I saw the picture of the calf and she is adorable. I even commented on a name. Isn't nice to know that you can have them on green grass!!
i would rather have the puppies
You are a lucky duck with the worming. I have to give the llamas shots once a month.
Congrats to Liz!!!!!!!!!!
It was de-manded of me this morning to go to de-town and get supplies. We have reed canary at the river and I would have de-manded a sleep if I had to clean out the rhubarb patch.....it's horrible stuff.
Anon, it is so nice that it is spring, that I de-cided to enjoy it...and yeah, they are de-termined to be milked, twice a day, every day. Happy c De M to you too!
Dani, they sure do like it!
The wife, she is so funny. She follows Liz around like a puppy
FC, thanks
Jan, sounds nice though...nothing like a garden. I have to get my sunflowers planted!
Lisa, It is so nice to have it green...I love it
Alan, just one would be nice
Teri, I was real happy when they came out with the SafeGuard blocks. They do make it easy.
LInda, it is wickedly invasive. I have about given up on the little garden where the rhubarb is. I have it all fenced nice against bunnies and all, but you can't fence out reed canary and nettles....they just come right under.
Hello
is Voice in Head saying
Farm needs to be de-jersey-fied...
too many pasture lice...
real farmers have cows not undergrown deformed goats...
lol
Voice in Head Says
bye now
no cows today for me!!!
HA HA
also voice in head wishes to know if she could get a puppy seeing as how gizmo has the evil brown louse?
puppies are cuuuute!!!
a little yellow and fuzzy one is prefered but a certain type of spaniel would not be turned down...
We have some nasty weed that I can't get a handle on. Looks like a jointed snake grass, some people call it scrub grass as the pioneers used it to clean out thier pots. Horrible stuff. Loves the ditch banks, and MY YARD!
I so understand! Very MUCH!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/
Linda, some things are so invasive you can barely beat them if you work at it full time. Nettles are wicked here, spreading yards and yards underground in a single season...and grasses, of course.
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