Yeah my dad had cows in college and had a holstine herford cross and she had a baby. Raised it got bread again maybe to a herford bull don’t quote me on that. It came time for her to give birth and her first baby was still nursing. Nine months old weighed 960lbs still nursing and didn’t even pull her down! She made all kinds of milk!

Thats a Holstein for yah

Yup. If I had milk cows I’d get brown Swiss or gurneys. Maybe jerseys but jersey bulls are mean!

Jerseys are little peices of snot the whole lot of them

Well so am I!

Well I just finished the last shift. Then it starts again at 5:45!

Are you kidding me? Why?

babies gotta eat!

At 5:45 in the morning?!?!

That’s when I woke up I fed at 6:00. They get fed at 6:00AM 12:00 AM 6:00PM and 12:00PM

Thats gotta suck

The babies literally do! I mean you’re a farmer don’t farmers wake up at the butt crack of dawn?

Yes, but that's not the suckage tho, what sucks would be having to feed 4 times a day. When I used to raise bottle calves I'd feed 3 times a day for a month and half and then twice a day for another month and a half. I hated feeding 3 times a day. It took up too much time. In the height of my bottle calf career I had 8 head on milk. I would get up at 5am and feed then go to work all day come home and feed. Then do things like bed, move calves. Treat sick ones. Move manure. Then I'd go to bed and repeat the next day. When I was feeding 8 head I was never able to feed 3 times a day tho, it never worked out so they got fed at 5am and 5pm.

Yeah baby goats are tiny they can’t hold much so they go hungry quick! The youngest 4 are getting fed 4x daily the older ones are getting fed 3x daily they are going to two in a week or two.

Yeah, the farm i work for feeds the really young ones 3x but mostly just 2x. However we're feeding around 300 head of kids every year

I’ll switch jobs with ya!

I dont even have to feed kids usually, I normally milk. But you'd have to deal with the cold and snow and I dont think a Kentucky boy could handle that

Believe me I would be fine with it! I hate hot weather! I don’t think a Wisconsin boy could handle 98* and 80% humidity! And it really does happen.

Yeah I know it happens, we get that here too. Just wait till you're inside a baler fixing it in that weather.

If anyone ever wonders why I can't find time to trap......


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