Well today we had a bit of a messy day at the barn. In the afternoon when I went across the street to gather fresh colostrum for our new heifer calf one of the jugs burst open in the bed of the ranger and made a huge mess. I did my best to clean the ranger with the hose and was able to save two of the three jugs of colostrum.
It has now been a few days since we made the new adjustments to the weaned calf pens and to my surprise the calves are consuming so much more silage than before! I wonder if the setup allows for the calves to eat more throughout the day as the aisle can hold a significantly higher proportion of silage when compared to the old feed troughs we used before. I hope this means that the calves we are raising will grow twice as well as they did before. A second benefit I have observed thus far with the new changes is that we are able to push and stir the feed a bit easier. Sometimes when we push the feed the calves might think that this is brand new silage and they get excited to eat again. The truth is that these girls absolutely love their grain, it is like candy to them and many of the calves including our older cows will pick through the silage to eat the best parts. I like to think of this behavior of theirs like how we will pick through trail mix and eat all of the chocolate chips before even considering eating the pesky raisins! Click this link to see a video of this cutie checking out my phone.
Today we had one new jersey heifer born in the morning.
Today we shipped ___ gallons of milk.
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