Farm Blog

We woke to snow yesterday when Sara and I took the heifer calves to the Sheldon Livestock sale barn.  Everything went pretty well.  Didn't get the high $ for the calves but they did okay.  Somebody ended up with some very good replacement calves for a very good price.  It's a very different perspective to see them in the sale ring compared to out in the field.  They look so much smaller inside when you're sitting up in the seats.  Our twin calves sold by the head, which meant that they were too small to sell by the lb, and the others averaged a little over 300lbs each.
Once our calves had sold we stayed to see what some of the other small replacements went for, then we headed for the door and picked up our check.
We then headed further west to pickup Sara's milk goats.  Sara was happy to see her goats, but it was a quick load into the trailer and headed east back home.  Sara's goats are now in their winter area up by the barn and near the house.  Sharon and Sara had piled the raspberry pruning in their winter area this fall, so the goats have been very happy to fight the thorny branches to get to the old dried up leaves.  They are even eating the branches!
Today will be a day of moving bales around the cattle winter paddock up by the house so that the hay and corn stalk are close enough for easy access when the snow gets deep.  It was in the mid teens today when we got up so it is a wake-up call to get things finalized for winter's heavy snow and cold.