I am still waiting on the last two cows to give birth. Sugar looks really close to calving. Her udder has swollen up with milk and is humongous. For a number of days now I have thought she could give birth any time now.
Last week it appeared Buster was getting milk from Big Red as over a two day period he never was hungry when I penned Red up for Buster to drink from. So I let them out to join the rest of the cattle. Last night and this morning I saw Buster drinking milk from Red. She stood still so he could drink. Nice to actually know he was getting milk from her.
I bought three more large hay bales. Dan needed more hay and he found a good deal on hay. While I thought I had more than enough hay to last the Winter, the colder and longer Winter caused more hay to be eaten. I have three bales left and they would have been eaten before the end of next week. I want to extend time on hay to allow the grass to grow more. While the warm weather last week caused the grass to grow, I want it a little taller before letting the cattle out on it.
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