The weather was beautiful yesterday for our fall calving herd work.
I had had another farmercising episode on Tuesday to help Joe get the cows into position to be able to get them up today. But I was recovered and ready to go again.
Fortunately, we had Mike to help yesterday so that really cut down on my workload.
The cows worked well, through the chute for one shot and some dewormer. Then it was time for the calves. They got one shot, an ear notch and the bulls got castrated. My job was to give the shot. During my down time I remembered that I had downloaded a scale app on my phone. It is suppose to "weigh" the cattle. I tried it out without reading any instructions and decided there was a bit of a learning
It seemed pretty self explanatory, get a side view in the frame and it gives a weight. But the weight ranges varied wildly.
This same calf went from 164 to 331. It pretty much did that on everything. You would have to have a good idea of what they are suppose to weigh for it to really help much.
There was a feature where you would chose cow frame size and number in the pen and it would calculate the pen weight after you snapped however many you put in. I was going to try that but apparently, there was a limit to the free time I had without signing up and paying a monthly $34.99 or yearly $349 fee. I decided that this isn't an app for me.
Back to the calves, Mike and Joe had them worked without incident,
and the calves back out with the cows. And we got to go to the Dutch Pantry for lunch.
2 comments:
I wasn't expecting an app review. Seems very pricing.
Good work on the herd work.
Sometimes I think AI (artificial intelligence) should be called AS - S for stupidity if they think someone should pay for computer generated opinions.
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