We got an early start this morning to get the cattle headed for the feedyard.
One benefit of getting out early was seeing the beautiful sunrise.
J already had the cattle in the new lot so we just had to get them in the barn lot then into the barn.
Our help arrived and there was some josteling of trailers to get everyone loaded.
The farm across the creek from us has a set of scales they let us use and a place a tractor trailer can get in and out of. It is more convenient than going to town and using the livestock market scales.
We have to know how much they weigh because there is a weight limit for the trucking.
The cattle fit 10 at a time.
We use to get an independent trucker to do the hauling but the last couple of times we have used the trucker from the feedyard. I like them a little better because they will bed the trailer with shavings.
There are 8 compartments on the trailer, 4 up and 4 down. The trucker knows how many of each weight cattle will fit in all the compartment. So he would ask for 7, load those, then 15, etc, until they were all on board.
These all loaded without much trouble. Thankfully, we had been without rain for 3 days in a row, so the ground wasn't too sloppy and no one got stuck. Now we just are waiting on the call tomorrow morning to see if they made it out there ok.
That's our house and barn off in the distance. I alway enjoy seeing our place from a different perspective.
3 comments:
So interesting to see all the behind the scenes work that goes into cattle ranching. I would hate to have to drive those cattle on such a long haul to the stock yards. I'm sure you are anxious waiting for the call to hear that they got there ok.
Beautiful sunrise.
Your farm makes a beautiful view.
Those rolling Virginia hills... :)
Always a good feeling when they are all loaded
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