The Official Farming Thread...

[Bill G]

Hope you’re right

I wish I could send you our rain.

 

[jakethesnake]

Grandpa always said “plant in the dust and the bins will bust”. If the stuff does germinate it’ll dig deep roots and hopefully find moisture.

Good luck !!

My gramps said the same

 

[jakethesnake]

I wish I could send you our rain.

I’d be glad to share . Got a chance of something tonight. It’s brewing up like they said so I’m geeked watching radar

 

[Bill G]

Hope you’re right

I also hope I am right but as my wife and her mother always said to me.........well your just wrong .

I am not sure what year it was but I am thinking it was around 2012 or so. It was real wet here early. We got all our stuff in but a neighbor did not. He had a wet hole that was right up against the levee and the seep water would not go away. He planted beans around it and left it. Of course the water shut off like a tight spigot when it was past the planting deadline. The river dropped and it dried up. I knew I was going to be short on hay and since it was only 2 miles away I asked if I could till it and drill millet into it. He said he would gladly let me but he was able to take the prevented planting payment on it. He said if I wanted to I could drill the wet hole in one of his fields down the pumping station road as for whatever reason it did not qualify for prevented planting payment. Well my sons and I went and took a look. It was a good distance from home but we moved equipment down there and commenced to wasting fuel and making fist sized clods. I disced it lightly to open it up and dry it a bit. All I did was make clods. It did dry though.......into boulders. I worked it and worked it. The disc did nothing. The harrowgator did nothing. The field cultivator was useless. I finally worked it every direction other than Sunday with the cultimulcher. It was still a mess. I drilled the millet into rock hard clods. I do not think we got more than 0.3" rain the rest of the summer. I gave up driving down there to look as it never germinated. He told me later it finally did germinate about the time he was cutting beans.

The cows lost weight that winter

 

[Firewood Hoarder]

Wrapping up the morning chores around here, and these pullets had jumped out of the brooder in the garage to go lie in the sun. Bunch of freeloaders... gonna have to move them in with the rest of the flock soon.

 

[Seachaser]

Finally getting a little rain as we speak.

 

[Lnk]

We have 3/8" so far, not complaining.

 

[Only the Tony]

Somebody heard the 4-wheeler this morning and wanted some range cubes. Bad thing is after he finished those he came looking for me again for seconds. Followed me for almost half a mile and drug along the younger bull with him to the house.

 

[jakethesnake]

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Somebody heard the 4-wheeler this morning and wanted some range cubes. Bad thing is after he finished those he came looking for me again for seconds. Followed me for almost half a mile and drug along the younger bull with him to the house.

I quit hand feeding my bull because they get that way. I didn’t like it much.

 

[Only the Tony]

I quit hand feeding my bull because they get that way. I didn’t like it much.

I hand feed the some of the cows but would only dump out some cubes into a trough or on the ground for the bulls. Got a couple old cows that I try to give a few cubes to out in the field and now the others are beginning to associate four wheeler with food. Once they figure out there isn't any, no problem. Not sure yet on the boys though, I think they would burn through two or three bags a time without hesitation.

 

[Bill G]

I hand fed cows 365 days a year. I also called cows and hogs.
I have called cows from distances folks would think is unimaginable.
They are no different than a coon dog although if a dog gets out of earshot he will scent his way back home. Cows will just look for more cows

 

[LAWN BOY]

At work I get around on a Honda Rancher. I’ve been putting in 9 hour days of weed whacking fence lines with this Stihl FS94R straight shaft trimmer, I like it and might buy one myself eventually. The picture does not do justice as to how large the bull in the background is. There are bison at work too.

 

[jakethesnake]

I hand fed cows 365 days a year. I also called cows and hogs.
I have called cows from distances folks would think is unimaginable.
They are no different than a coon dog although if a dog gets out of earshot he will scent his way back home. Cows will just look for more cows

My cows respond to me hollering too. If I’m loud enough they’ll come. “Cmoooooooon!!!” . Had a city girl with me one night. (Lotta fun, lotta batshit crazy”. “Jake cows do not come to being called on”. She lost her mind when 30 showed up to the fence I was standing at. just a funny little story there

 

[LAWN BOY]

My cows respond to me hollering too. If I’m loud enough they’ll come. “Cmoooooooon!!!” . Had a city girl with me one night. (Lotta fun, lotta batshit crazy”. “Jake cows do not come to being called on”. She lost her mind when 30 showed up to the fence I was standing at. just a funny little story there

lol, why the heck were u with a city girl? My grandma’s cows respond to us yelling too, my grandma uses the term “combossy” for all of them, and individually they somewhat know their names.

 

[Mastermind]

If only these poor beasts had some grass.

 

[jakethesnake]

lol, why the heck were u with a city girl? My grandma’s cows respond to us yelling too, my grandma uses the term “combossy” for all of them, and individually they somewhat know their names.

Super pretty. Just crazy as hell. Fun till it wasnt

 

[LAWN BOY]

Super pretty. Just crazy as hell. Fun till it wasnt

Oh, ok.

 

[Lnk]

Super pretty. Just crazy as hell. Fun till it wasnt

Refhead?

 

[Wilhelm]

I lost another one today, again female.
Was alive 2 hours prior.
Down to one female.
As far as I can tell no wounds and no egg stuck in her butt.



This is not fun!
Always in the PM.
Maybe a combination of too hot (up to 40°C), too much moist in the air (really hard to breathe), exhausted from egg laying?
The drakes seem fine, they are 2 years old now.

 

[jakethesnake]

Refhead?

Brunette oddly