Faith from the Farm, Sharing as He leads!
If you don’t know, the cow isn’t supposed to lay down! This crazy cow got in the chute and laid down! Everything works better, especially breeding when the cow doesn’t lay down in the chute!
Thankfully, on this particular day, we worked the cattle and everything went according to plan…..this time!
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Recently, while flying home, we spotted our home from the plane! It was really crazy to see everything from that perspective. Sometimes it’s nice to see the big picture!
Our oldest gave Husband a large map of our property from a flyover perspective for Christmas. We had one from about 10-12 years ago, before we began to clear land and develop the property. We got the map a few weeks after Christmas and then right on the heels of that, we caught the photo from the plane. The two instances caused me to have a “verily, verily” kind of moment.
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We have this steer that has become quite the escape artist. He and a heifer were in the catch pen together being fed for slaughter. The heifer had her date with the freezer, but this guy still has a bit more time. Now that he is alone, he gets bored. He has learned how to open all the gates in the catch pen.
Husband would turn handles certain ways to prevent cows from opening gates. That doesn’t work with this steer. He opens gates and undoes chains! Husband has had to tie gates shut and still we have issues. Now the steer is letting other cattle out and not just himself!
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