Weaning Has Begun

J has begun weaning the spring calves.  He stated with the first calf heifers that are on the rented pasture.  The new pens he had built worked fine.  Much better that the falling down ones we had been babying along for years. 

The only problem came in trying to back back out of the field. 

A gully had washed out in front of the gate which caused the back wheels to drop and then the back of the trailer was stuck. 

Plus the ground was slick and we couldn't pull forward either.  

J had to walk home and bring back the tractor to pull the trailer out.  Then he had to steal a couple of dipper loads of gravel from the gullies on the gravel road to fill in the gully in front of the gate.   He finally got backed out and to the house with the load of calves. 

They have been weaned now for a few days.  The sign must have been right for that anyway, because they really weren't too much trouble.