Montana

[RoyalT]

I got my new calves today, they are both Red Angus/ Charolais mixes. The red one is just over a month old, and the white one is about 2 weeks.
I had to put a wrap around the little white calf as the red one was sucking on her navel. I'm trying to get the red one on a bucket, and the white one is going to stay on the bottle for a little while longer. They are both eating pellets and hay, and drinking water, so i don't have to worry as much if I'm a little late getting home from work.

Adorable! Both heifers? What are you going to do with them?

 

[Azriel]

Its to bad that people have such low regard for their animals that you are forced to take lethal action to keep your own animals safe. When I moved here, I brought my 2 house cats, I didn't have or want outside/barn cats. There are so many coyotes up here that I didn't think I would need to worry about mice. Well pretty soon stray cats start showing up and of crourse I start feeding them, because I can't stand to see them starving. Now I have about 25 barn cats at any given time and I couldn't tell you how many I've taken in to the spay/nuter clinics, and it seems like every spring a few more momma's show up with kittens. I know my mistake is feeding them, but like I said, I can't stand to see them starve, and its not their fault their owners didn't care enough about them to keep them and take proper care of them.

 

[Azriel]

Adorable! Both heifers? What are you going to do with them?

They will be added to my little herd when thay get old enough. My goal is to have 10-15 adult cows having calves that I can sell every year.
It was cute when I brought them home, Bess my very pregnant cow started doing the soft Momma moo, like she thought they should be hers. If she would have already had her calf, I would have tryed giving her the little white one, she is young enough that I think she would graft on another cow pretty easy.

 

[rookiefarmers]

It is really sad that people don't care for their animals. We have neighbors a ways down our road that have an absolute mess of a property, that all the time seems to be getting new and different animals. They are all mangy and poorly behaved and it makes me sad. I am beginning to suspect a boarding type situation. I know the sheriff knows about it so I hope they will take action as needed. Wouldn't surprise me if that cat didn't start out there.

 

[DuginMT]

Hot here today - 93.3 Degrees inside the shaded coop right now! Saw my first bull snake of the year last week, on an asphalt road near Laurel. My chicks are not as active today, hope they won't get too stressed. It's as though they were placed back in the first week of the brooder! Luckily there is a breeze today.

Doug

 

[rookiefarmers]

Hot here too! We have SOME shade but definitely not as much as we need. I was so paranoid about the Montana winters I failed to factor in the heat! Yikes! I am heading to get some Kore lumber to build a lean to for more shade and headed to buy a few trees too. Always on your toes with chickens. Stay cool everyone!

 

[karlamaria]

Hot here today - 93.3 Degrees inside the shaded coop right now!  Saw my first bull snake of the year last week, on an asphalt road near Laurel.  My chicks are not as active today, hope they won't get too stressed.  It's as though they were placed back in the first week of the brooder!  Luckily there is a breeze today.

Doug 

I insulated my coop so well that. The coop is very cool even in the hottest summer months. My chickens go in to cool down lol. The windows are double pained and solar. Warm in winter and cool in summer. I wanted my girls in a coop that would keep them warmer and cooler when the times called for it.

 

[karlamaria]

Hot here too! We have SOME shade but definitely not as much as we need. I was so paranoid about the Montana winters I failed to factor in the heat! Yikes! I am heading to get some Kore lumber to build a lean to for more shade and headed to buy a few trees too. Always on your toes with chickens. Stay cool everyone!

only 77 here, but Buute is usually much cooler the other places in Montana . I have a hedge that is trimmed so my chickens can go under it in rain etc. and have a over hang that keeps the cool and dry. Every year I add a lot of soil under it and the girls spend the whole summer dirt bathing in it and cooling down. At night I run a sprinkler into the hedge to help the hedge and cool the ground so that when they get out of there pen the ground is dry but cool. They love it. I also throw grass seed under there and grow grass and after a week or to let them out to munch it up,

 

[ReptileMom]

I don't want you to think I am cold-hearted. I have two wonderful cats of my own. I just believe that all pet owners should be responsible owners. My cats are very precious and are indoor cats because I never want them to lose their lives for any other reason than old age!

I used to live on an acre in another area around here. I had another cat (neutered) that my 1st husband insisted had to be an indoor-outdoor cat. I worked hard on training him to stay on our property. It worked quite well overall. But there were feral and neighborhood males that would come to our place and chase him onto the roof and then beat the tar out of him.

I will admit to neutering 8 male cats. We would live trap them, wrap them in towels and put orthodontic rubberbands on their testicles.

The fights diminished to none after a while. I am sure I helped keep the feral population controlled around our neighborhood!

One day I was at my neighbor's house that was 1/8 mile from our place. We were out looking at her cows and she saw one of her barn cat males in the stall. She stated that she had been trying to catch it and another one that lived in barn for a year or more to take to the vet to neuter them. I looked at them, bit my tongue for a while...

then I broke down and told her she didn't have to worry about doing it. Confessed what I had done. She laughed and stated she was very glad I had done it!!

Not everyone would have been so understanding!

 

[DuginMT]

Karla your chicks have it made!