It's Mushroom Time & Cattle Working Time

Yummy, Yummy! It's mushroom time again. This time every year marks the time when those yummy little mushrooms pop their heads above the soil. Pain in the tail to find, but oh so good. Unfortunately I haven't found any myself, only my mom and dad. But, fortunately they shared those little critters last night. I could founder myself on those suckers.

Another beautiful spring day is in store for today. This weekend promises to be pretty as well, with scattered thunderstorms. Springtime marks for many things: fertilize the pastures, new green grass, new baby calves, and CATTLE WORKING time. We are to have a busy day tomorrow; working 29 mama cows and their new babies. The mamas will each get a new fly tag (propels pesky flys), wormer (gets rid of worms), and lepto (protects them from aborting their calves). The cute little babies will get a dab of wormer as well, along with black leg (helps with foot rot and a disese they can get in their blood/legs), rougrow (promotes growth), and the little boys will become 'its'...aka they'll be castrated. This provides for a yummy feast for the Ben & Tucker, the labs. They patiently wait by dad during this process because they know that a feast awaits!

Cattle Working Tid-bit:
1. Wormer = twice a year (Spring & Fall working)
2. Lepto = once a year (prior to breeding)
3. Fly tag = once a year (usually during Spring working)
4. Black leg = once during lifetime (when babies or small calves)
5. Rougrow = once during lifetime (when babies or small calves)
*NOTE* any heifer calves we plan to keep for cows do not get this vacination as we grain feed our heifers.

Cattle working day is usually a bit stressful. Tempers and mouths tend to flair on this day. You never know how the cows are going to act; they do indeed respond to weather changes. Our cattle are very gentle, but when they have little ones they can be extremely protective and get a little ticked off and impatient. Thus, causing them to paw and snort at you, and on occaision try to run over you. All-in-all though it is a very fun, family day though.

That is my bit of useless information for today. A bit of good information is that it's FRIDAY!!!

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the weather! P.S. It rained on Easter so according to old wise tails it will rain for 7 Sundays. This is the 3rd Sunday. We'll see...

Until next time . . .