08/02/2023
Here is an update from the past few month here on MaC Farms.
Our #61 cow was thought to not be bred earlier this year. Well she seemed to get sick a few weeks back so Courtney and I got #61 up into the squeeze chute to get some antibiotics into her to help. A few days later she seemed to be looking and feeling better. Then about a week ago I got a message from Courtney saying "The cows are chasing turkeys in the pasture." But she also said the cows were acting weird. Come to find out, the cows were chasing vultures off our a stillborn calf of #61. We still have no idea why #61 got sick and lost her calf.
Then we had biblical rains come in the night of 29 July. As Courtney and I were getting ready for church our neighbor came and told us that we had a downed tree in our back pasture. He wasn't joking. A big oak tree, probably about 100-125' tall, came crashing down in the middle of the night. Right on our fence line. We'll, I have spent the last 3 days cutting, pushing, pulling and fixing the fence.
Yesterday I got a chance to finally spray our barn pasture for weeds. So, hopefully, we will be able to kill most of the weeds in that pasture. That way the cows can get over there and have great grass nutrition for there last trimester before calving this fall.