Super Step's Journal

Sally, the new Fawn seems to be adjusting well.

I have been more busy than normal since Dad passed on.
Keeping up two places is a chore. Trying to get his place back to where it was when Mom was alive is proving to be a chore. Dad loved clutter. I think he felt some security in it in some form. I still have 8 old vehicles to haul off. Good thing scrap prices are up.
He had gone into repairing air conditioners after her retired. He did this for no charge. That will always...

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I have not seen Houston, the deer in over a week. I hope he just wandered off and is finding a new life. I miss him. He made the morning chore rounds with me. He had become skittish / leary just before he disappeared. I hope no one took him. We have some real rednecks in out area.

I had decided to cut the upper pasture for cow hay. I was obligated 2 weekends in a row to working on the new playground at school and an early killing frost came. I did not get the hay cut. It was more of...

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Bossy, the Jersey cow my son bought this past spring to raise calves on, delivered her AI calf Saturday. The dairy owner's wife gave me the wrong cow when I went to pick her up. (Culls do not give 60 lbs a day ) I buy his culls. Bossy was one of his best cows, AI bred to one of the top bulls in the US. I told the owner I would bring her back, he said a deal was a deal but he would be interested in the calf if it was a heifer.
I told him we would give him the calf free since we were given...

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I baled hay today. I am through for the year and have the baler stored in the barn now.
I have mine put up up already and had planned to put this up and sale this winter. But a man called and offered me $5.00 a bale in the field. I have seen hay selling for $6.00 in the field. I told the man I could sell it for $4.50 and do alright. On this little field I can usually get around 850 bales per cut. We had 3 days with some rain this summer and I was able to bale 732 which really surprised me....

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This spring, I decided to buy a couple of Jersey milk cows to raise some beef calves on. I have Bossy and Bessy. The came from a dairy and were pretty tame. They are spoiled tame now.
Bessy calved 2 weeks ago, so she is fresh now. Day old beef calves are sky high, so I bought two additional Jersey bull calves to help keep her milked.
I was getting up at 5 am to milk her. Her "faucets" are so small, almost impossible to milk by hand.
Bessy Got milk?
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