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| I mentioned in my earlier post that we sold our flooded property. We had 30 days to move our cattle out of our old property. Originally, we were gonna hire someone to do the fencing around our new property. |
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| But to make the long story short things didn't work out with the fence guy so we decided to do all the fencing ourselves. But before we could start working on the fencing we needed to get the other half of our current property cleared. |
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| There were a lot of trees cut down and mulched down. |
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| And we now have a very big burn pile waiting to be burned |
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| But it looks really nice now that the land is cleared. |
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| This boy was admiring this dozer and probably wishing he could get a ride on this beast from the land clearing guy. |
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| Because it took a little bit longer to clear the land than anticipated we were left with only 2 weeks to do at least a section of the fence so we could bring our cows to current property before the deadline. |
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| So we did a mix of t-posts and wood posts. Around the house and along the driveway we want to do all wood posts just so it looks prettier. We want the fence to last a long time so we did extra work to make sure they would last. We used 8x4s treated wood posts. Dug the hole around 2-2.5 feet deep, then cemented each wood post in. It was a lot of work and manual labor! |
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| I think our hard work paid off. I think we did a really good job and the fencing is looking great! |
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| We did a good job making sure all the wood posts are straight and all lined up. But we worked our butts off! We worked from 8am to 8pm for days in the 90 degree weather! The heat and humidity were brutal! |
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| While we were busy getting the fencing down, Black Pearl decided to get Mastitis (ok, I don't believe anyone would actually decide that they want Mastitis). Her udder was engorged for a few weeks but first we thought the engorgement would go away because she was about to calf and that's what usually happens to her udder. But this time it was different... it was engorged for a long time and it just got worse and worse. So we decided maybe we should do something about it. The day we decided to go help her treat the mastitis we showed up to the old property and noticed her udder was deflated. At first we were happy that maybe her mastitis somehow just disappeared. But when we got closer we noticed a big gash on her udder. We think it got so engorged that it finally burst! |
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| That poor girl! She had a 3 inch rip on her udder and we saw liquid draining out of it. We didn't want her to get infection or anything so we thought we would take her to the local vet. Our local vet told us that they might not be equipped for an emergency such as this so they referred us to a vet hospital about an hour away. We took her in and put her in the squeeze chute...and boy, was she mad! She mooing and everything and she was so mad she wouldn't even look at me! |
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| The vet told us that there are several kinds of mastitis. One of them is dangerous and life- threatening. And Black Pearl had the bad life- threatening one. Had we waited longer we could have lost her. The vet gave her a shot of anti- biotic and squeezed all the "cottage cheese" out of her udder and sent us on our way. |
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| The vet told us that her udder would most likely fill up again since she's nursing her calf. He told us calves usually could tell and know if the milk is bad and wouldn't drink from that quarter if it's bad. But he told us to still try to make sure the calf doesn't feed from the "bad teat" just to be safe. If the bad quarter fills up we should try to empty it. |
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| We had never milked a cow before. So this is hubby attempting to milk it...let's just say it ain't easy! After about 5-10 minutes of attempting we got only a little bit of milk out...hubby threw in the towel. |
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