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Miscellaneous Forums => 'round the pot-bellied stove => Topic started by: RG8800 on April 21, 2011, 11:37:04 PM
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[video=youtube;1GjWBr7qvRU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjWBr7qvRU[/video]
Its always nice to see the new spring calves getting out and exploring the world on a sunny day in Sask. I shot this within the past week and put it on youtube to share with the rest of the world. These few head of cattle are more a hobby than a living for me. Keeping cattle seems to be a hard habit to break.
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Nice video Ralph. So entertaining to watch the energy of a newborn.
Good to see some bare ground there. Looks like the calves have a very comfortable place in the sun.
More rain here today. Sure sorry I was concerned about soil moisture earlier. Rain forecast daily for the next week. Will be well into May before we can get serious about field work.
Gene
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It has been many years since I experienced that, Ralph. When I was growing up, there were always at least two cows on the farm that I milked twice a day. They each had calves every spring. The herd never got below two and sometimes was up to six. Funny thing, when I went off to college, the cow herd left too. 1961.
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Ron;
My experience was similar, but instaed of the herd leaving, dad acquired more equipment. I left for the Air Force in August 1960 and when I came home on leave, my dad had bought a milking machine system, Had a loader mounted on the Farmall H. A baler was setting in the granary. Never figured if the equipment was to make up for the work I had done or if having one less mouth to feed freed up enough money to afford the machinery
Gene
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Gene,
In my case, it was my labor that was not replaced. My school teacher step-mother preferred bottled milk from the store anyway and no one wanted to run the cream separator and have to clean that thing. A different way of life had come about and I was out on my own.
Ron