Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Chickens, Work and Play

A technician that use to work at the clinic lives close by and said she had too many eggs.

I contacted her and asked if I could buy a couple dozen.  Absolutely, was the reply.   I ended up with 5 dozen.
The chickens are beautiful and happy.  I will probably have to share the eggs with Virginia and Mike.  But I have already made Joe some egg salad.  
When I got home there was a heifer in labor.  She wasn’t making very quick progress so we got her up to pull it.  I put on the chains and Joe pulled. 
I had to pull a little but at least we didn’t have to use the calf jack.
This has been the largest calf out of the heifers so far and the first one we had to pull.  It wasn’t stressed at all and we turned the pair back out this evening.

With a break in the work, I took Otoelene out for a ride.  
I ended up finding more work for a Joe.  Yet another tree had fallen on a fence and flattened it.

At least the baby goats got to play.







2 comments:

C said...

This line made me laugh out loud: "With a break in the work, I took Otoelene out for a ride."

Break in the work?!?! I guess the horse ride was considered the "play" in the post title.

Shirley said...

That is a big calf! Good job Joe, looks like it was a tough pull.
Yay for a ride on Otoelene but drat, another fence repair. Pretty soon all the trees near your fences will be gone!

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