The mud has started to dry up. It seemed like it would never dry out. Tammy and I calved the first calf heifers for about five weeks. We then hauled the last eight head over to Ryan's so he can finish calving them. We turned the heifers and their calves out in the pasture with the cows that are not to start calving until April 20. Then got the sheep into the close lots by the barn. We can start feeding the sheep extra grain to get them into shape for having their babies in a couple of weeks.
The calves enjoy being out in a bigger pasture. They are getting to be a month old and can venture away from their mothers for a short period of time. The pasture they are in has a small dam that is running over with water. Last year at this time it was bone dry. We had to fill a tank with water daily last year and now the cows can drink anytime.
The sheep are in the lot and we feed with a bale processor that grinds the hay bale as it puts it out in a windrow.
Once the animals are moved around to their new locations, then we started cleaning out the barn and moving cattle panels around and sheep panels back in. We use a tractor and blade to drag the straw and manure out of the barn so that it can dry out.
Ryan and Shilo are providing added weight to the blade so it does not skip over the wet straw. They ride the blade for a short time as I get a good load to pull out of the barn.
While Logan doesn't get to ride the blade he does provide push power. So after two days of barn cleaning and the barn finally clean it was time to feed Grandma's sheep some cubes.
It is great fun to feed the sheep out the grainery door. Next week we hope to get sheared.
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