Spring has Sprung!

Well we are past the ides of March, but around here it has seemed more like the ides of June or even July. We had something like 7 days in a row where temperatures were 80 or above, certainly not typical for March in Indiana.  

So warm the weanlings fought over the water! 

Because of the unseasonably warm temperatures this week, the farm was crazy busy! 
So what was I doing this week that made me busier than usual?  Well check out my picture!  

Go Cat Go!

This is actually the boss chisel plowing, but I was his relief.  We would trade shifts throughout the day and part of the night.  Chisel plowing happens in the spring and fall and helps reduce the amount of weeds in a field and break up any clumps of dirt that appear among many other things.  All I know is I am happy to do it!  Chisel plowing is one of many things we do to prepare the fields for planting.  This week I also disked a field with a compactor pulled behind it, if only I had taken a picture of that!  It was two things behind the tractor!  We don't usually get the opportunity to get started so early, but with the nice weather we were pretty darn productive!  


Besides spring plowing starting early, I noticed a few other things this week.  Things from my ranger days, say a few Ring-billed Gulls!  

These guys, who are not by any means sea gulls (there are no seas in Indiana in case you forgot), like to follow along behind the plow and pick up the worms and other creatures that might appear when the dirt is turned up.  I had to take a picture of them from the tractor just for my old ranger friends! 


Another nice sighting this week was this! 

Deers!!! 

They crept right up the edge of the calf farm and were munching on some tasty corn left in the field.  I will always call them deers because of the one couple I had from who knows where that had never seen a deer let alone more than one!  Their excitement caused them to say deers!  and ever since then I feel the need to share their excitement with the same phrase.  


Other than plowing and my wildlife sightings I still took care of all my babies!  We are so darn full that when weaning begins this week, we need another pin to move them to.  Thank goodness the weekend was perfect weather for fence building/fixing.  The boys fixed up a very nice pasture pen for some of the older weanlings.  So now the new guys have somewhere to go!  


New little guys will be here by the end of the week!  


I guess that is my hodge podge update for now.


Hope the week treats you well!  




Calf Count: 76