Hi I'm Mike and it's the 1st day of spring, although you might not know it if you look
outside and today we get to more of the spring time duties that are waiting for us, and when
I say dooty, I mean piles of it and its only the beginning, waiting for us on the project
list, on our Wyoming Life
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Today we get a start on a job around there that needs done almost constantly, the removal
of manure.
We aren't going to be shoveling anything, not yet anyway, we will be using the tractor
today to start cleaning out the heifer corral, and we have to get going on it pretty quick,
because we actually have something we don't have to many of around here and that today
is a limited amount of time that we can actually work on it today.
More on that later though.
Also today, I am going to take you out with me as we check on our new arrivals here on
the ranch.
Our newest calves, the twins dubbed by Mackenzie as Thing 1 and Thing 2, she's been reading
Dr Suess lately and I'll give you one guess what her favorite book is.
We are going to take a look at the heifers calves up to this point and our surprise calf
in the field.
In addition, it's a leg day for the peacock today and we are going to head down in the
basement and put his prosthetic leg back on him after making a minor adjustment to it.
But as I said, the clock is ticking on our big project for today, cleaning out the heifer
corral and we need to get to it.
Today we are going to use the John Deere 6410 tractor, its currently equipped with a front-end
loader bucket and a box blade scraper on the back.
Let's get it going.
Ok, that is the lock for the garage door here in the sales barn, slid right out of there,
another thing for the project list later on, and hopefully not an omen on how today is
going to go.
Tick tock, time to go to work.
The reason we are in such a hurry to get started on this project is because its going to warm
up today and this inch or so of snow that we got last night is going to melt.
That water is going to make our corral soggy and driving around in there with a tractor
isn't such a good idea, we don't want to tear up the dirt any more than we have
to.
So we are going to try to get a chuck of this done this morning.
Once it gets too wet we will quit but for now the ground is still pretty solid and we
can get right to it.
Most of this material we will be removing from this corral today is straw bedding that
has been laid in here.
I didn't plan or build this corral but one of the bad things about it is that it is right
in the way of a bunch of drainage.
Every thaw we have causes snow to melt and water to move through here.
We don't want our heifers dealing with all that, so we have been constantly adding straw
and bedding material in here for them, building up a portion of the corral.
Now its time to get that out.
As they start to have their calves any material that can hold bacteria or even soak up excess
water isn't good for them.
Their moms will bed them down in this stuff but in reality, at this point I'd rather
have them on clean dry material.
Getting this out of here is the first step.
The heifers and their calves have been moved to our lower corral, a clean alternative to
this one for right now and that gives us the space to move and get this one cleaned out.
Theres not much to it, using the tractor we scoop and dump all the wet dirty straw into
piles.
These piles will be turned into compost to be used around the ranch and also spread on
hay fields, adding organic material back into the soil.
Each scoop of this bucket holds about 3 and 1/2 yards of material but what really matters
here is the weight, each full load of this wet heavy stuff can weight up to a ton and
moving it is careful work.
Any big bounces or jarring movements could actually break the loader, so slow is the
tempo.
Not the best thing to hear when you are trying to beat the clock.
As each load is moved we find plenty of still frozen junk underneath but that's ok.
Getting the straw and manure off the top will help it melt.
This will become my morning ritual for the next couple of days as we are expecting temperatures
below freezing at night and up into the 40s during the day for the next few days.
Eventually though the weather catches up to us.
I'm never going to complain about sunshine but there are days when I feel backwards wishing
it would stay cooler just a bit longer.
Its time to give up before we cause more damage to the ground that we will just end up having
to repair anyway and its time to head back and park this thing and move on to our next
project.
Calving season is upon us, although not much is happening right now.
Cows and even the heifers are holding on to their calves a little longer than we expected,
we cant really induce labor so it's a waiting game.
In the meantime we continue to check cows on a regular schedule, right now about very
4 hours during the daylight hours.
I check them all again about 10pm and then they are on their own until first light.
As we move into more active calving that will turn into every 4 hours all day and night
long, and sometimes even more frequent if we have bad weather.
Fun times.
Our newest set of calves are the twins, Thing 1 and thing 2.
They were both born 5 days ago and I'm happy to say are doing well.
They have been with their mom this whole time and she has been able to take care of both
of them.
They started out in the barn and now we allow them to wander in the corrals and alleys.
We weren't quite sure about her ability to take care of both of them and I don't
think I would trust her out to pasture, but here in the corral where she cant wander too
far from them everything seems fine.
Keeping them both with her in the corral saves us money on milk for them that we would have
to purchase.
Not far from them are the heifers and their calves.
Still sitting at 3, the oldest now 16 days old.
All of them are healthy and happy, full of spit and vineagar.
Out in the pasture we have our last calf of this season so far, her and her mom are both
doing great.
6 calves so far out of 160 some we are expecting, a small dent has been made but we still have
a long ways to go and I hope you are here with us as we move forward.
The last thing on our list for today is to get the peacocks leg back on him, a couple
of months ago he lost a portion of his leg to frostbite.
A viewer came forward with a solution and printed him a prosthetic leg which we have
been training him on for a while now.
He wears the leg for a couple of days and then we take it off and give him a break for
couple of days.
Today its time to put it back on him, but first we are going to modify it just a bit.
The toes on the foot of the leg are a little long, he tends to trip over them when he walks
so we are going to first measure his toes on his other foot and then match the length
on the prosthetic.
Its plastic so we can use a grinder to take off about a half and inch on each toe, hopefully
giving him a little bit more comfortable walking experience.
When its time to put the leg back on him he is pretty calm about it, he has gotten used
to putting it on and taking it off and he just lays right now for me to get him put
together.
Originally when we put on the leg we used zip ties to hold it on his stub, then we tried
Velcro straps, which didn't really work, the leg tended to slip around too much and
would loosen over time, so for now we are back to the zip ties while we figure out a
better solution.
Another issue that we are dealing with is the fact that he sometimes gets a little too
comfortable with the new leg and tries to fly with it on, which I don't think is too
much of a problem for him, aside the fact that he is in a room and not outside.
Landing seems to be the hardest part with a fake leg, and he tends to wipe out each
landing.
That's another thing we are going to have to address when we move him from the basement
back out to the real world.
After getting his new leg on, then he normally takes a few minutes to adjust to it again.
He will just stand like a statue and not move too much as he remembers how it feels and
what it does.
But soon he is ready to go, but this time not gracefully.
And not with good results.
After flying away, he landed on his new leg and the force snapped it into two pieces.
That was short lived today, and I guess we are going back to the drawing board to make
a more sturdy leg for him, and maybe a better way to attach it.
But he is fine, unhurt and ready to find his girlfriend, who is now his roommate, we might
have to perform a little marriage ceremony.
That's is for today, of course there is still plenty to do but we got a good start
on getting the corral cleaned out.
One more morning on it and I can have it done and we can start Erin's composting project,
which she is going to definitely need.
Calving will continue, soon hopefully and we hope that you are able to continue to join
us as we bring new life to the ranch and once we start, it goes, our record is 12 calves
in one day and I'm sure we will break that.
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Erin is back in the kitchen this week bringing you some wonderful ranch style cooking on
Thursday and I will see you again on Sunday morning for our regular ranch video
Until then have a great week and thanks for joining us in our Wyoming life.
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