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[CapricornFarm]

@CapricornFarm I told my husband about that chicken swap and he can't wait to go. He had so much fun doing the last one.

I'm putting in 42 eggs tomorrow, most of them are Olive eggers. Can't wait to see what they'll look like! I lost Eve my olive egger but this guy kept her brothers so I have a chance to get one like her again. She was almost silver in color. I miss her a ton!

It is an epic swap. I would love to go just to shop, but I always end up selling.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning Cafe!

 

[FortCluck]

It is an epic swap. I would love to go just to shop, but I always end up selling.

I might just shop or bring a few chicks and have my husband sell while I shop

 

[N F C]

Good morning Cafe!

Good morning Cap!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good Morning! I have been trying to catch up... not making it. I think taking notes might help!
Thanks for the coffee!
Stay safe! Stay warm! Stay healthy!
Today is a day off from wrestling and a time to heal the black eye and cut for DS$. He doesn't get those very often and he is not letting me take a picture of it, sigh. Another almost with a fantastic tough finals match. These guys from the different high schools are all friends and club mates so they really push each other when they meet up. It is a good thing for sure.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

In 2012, we bought our first cows. One each for my husband, two boys and me. They were all bred, but they were late and our friend was going to cull them. What fun! The start of a new adventure for us!

Like any animal, there is a lot to learn. My pick out of the herd was Mo. Mighty Mo was named because she quite literally had a mohawk. And a high head... Didn't know that was an issue at first

We loaded up Mo and friends and drove the 40 minutes home, anxious to introduce them to their new plot of land. We were raising pigs at the time and did know that a cows first introduction to pigs could be a problem. How big of a problem, we soon found out. We let the girls out of the trailer and push them past the pig pens towards their own. Well, Mo proceeds to lose her ever loving marbles, attempts to jump a gate and lands right in the middle of it. Okay, busted gate, but she's still in a pen. In an attempt to turn her out, she jumps the fence into another pen, over that fence into the parking lot, off like a streak across the frontage road and now she's a mountain goat.

Can't recall the time it took, but between horses and vehicles and enough people, the now loathed Mo is back on our property. Phew. Breathe easy, right? No. Very big no.

We had to run Mo out of our field, up the hill and back down the same "demon hog alley". Seemed like no problem at the time. Good fences! But Mo can jump like a whitetail...

Our home is between a frontage road and an interstate. You might know where this is going.

For the sake of brevity, I'll cut Mo's story short. So, Mo does the unthinkable and jumps the interstate fence. While she stopped some traffic, everyone was unscathed... Cow and car alike. Over the next fence and onto the next frontage road she goes. After a run-in with my father's in laws bumper, we finally got her into the neighbours corrals, loaded in a trailer and headed home. In case you were wondering, the pigs are completely unabashed by the chaos they've caused.

Mo's home. Universally hated by the entire family. And possibly some neighbors. I love her. I have to.

Fast forward a few years and we're in the middle of another calving season. Mo is ready to go and has had issues, so we're hoping baby comes out fine. She did great! Easy birth, baby was good... But she was Stark white. To me this is fantastic! I love the Rudolph's and ugly ducklings. But since the beginning, my husband had been adamant that our cows were black. No variation, no pretty colors just black.

But she was my cow. That was my white heifer. Now we have Mighty Mo's Whitey

It's good to have a marker cow, anyway. Whitey's first baby was a beast of a red heifer (who will be calving right directly) , second baby was a beautiful chocolate bull calf (that went to the sale) and now we have #3: lavender baby extraordinare.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Yikes, that was long.

Mo was not a well liked cow after her first days, she had calving issues and then she was the only one to get bred in the hills by the neighbours stray charolais bull. That's my girl

 

[N F C]

In 2012, we bought our first cows. One each for my husband, two boys and me. They were all bred, but they were late and our friend was going to cull them. What fun! The start of a new adventure for us!

Like any animal, there is a lot to learn. My pick out of the herd was Mo. Mighty Mo was named because she quite literally had a mohawk. And a high head... Didn't know that was an issue at first

We loaded up Mo and friends and drove the 40 minutes home, anxious to introduce them to their new plot of land. We were raising pigs at the time and did know that a cows first introduction to pigs could be a problem. How big of a problem, we soon found out. We let the girls out of the trailer and push them past the pig pens towards their own. Well, Mo proceeds to lose her ever loving marbles, attempts to jump a gate and lands right in the middle of it. Okay, busted gate, but she's still in a pen. In an attempt to turn her out, she jumps the fence into another pen, over that fence into the parking lot, off like a streak across the frontage road and now she's a mountain goat.

Can't recall the time it took, but between horses and vehicles and enough people, the now loathed Mo is back on our property. Phew. Breathe easy, right? No. Very big no.

We had to run Mo out of our field, up the hill and back down the same "demon hog alley". Seemed like no problem at the time. Good fences! But Mo can jump like a whitetail...

Our home is between a frontage road and an interstate. You might know where this is going.

For the sake of brevity, I'll cut Mo's story short. So, Mo does the unthinkable and jumps the interstate fence. While she stopped some traffic, everyone was unscathed... Cow and car alike. Over the next fence and onto the next frontage road she goes. After a run-in with my father's in laws bumper, we finally got her into the neighbours corrals, loaded in a trailer and headed home. In case you were wondering, the pigs are completely unabashed by the chaos they've caused.

Mo's home. Universally hated by the entire family. And possibly some neighbors. I love her. I have to.

Fast forward a few years and we're in the middle of another calving season. Mo is ready to go and has had issues, so we're hoping baby comes out fine. She did great! Easy birth, baby was good... But she was Stark white. To me this is fantastic! I love the Rudolph's and ugly ducklings. But since the beginning, my husband had been adamant that our cows were black. No variation, no pretty colors just black.

But she was my cow. That was my white heifer. Now we have Mighty Mo's Whitey

It's good to have a marker cow, anyway. Whitey's first baby was a beast of a red heifer (who will be calving right directly) , second baby was a beautiful chocolate bull calf (that went to the sale) and now we have #3: lavender baby extraordinare.

Great story about Mo Meg, she sounds like a handful.

 

[N F C]

Good Morning! I have been trying to catch up... not making it. I think taking notes might help!
Thanks for the coffee!
Stay safe! Stay warm! Stay healthy!
Today is a day off from wrestling and a time to heal the black eye and cut for DS$. He doesn't get those very often and he is not letting me take a picture of it, sigh. Another almost with a fantastic tough finals match. These guys from the different high schools are all friends and club mates so they really push each other when they meet up. It is a good thing for sure.

Hi Margie, enjoy your day off from wrestling!

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Great story about Mo Meg, she sounds like a handful.

She was crazy! Definitely didn't worry about her in the mountains. I'll have to find some of my old pictures, she was a beaute