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New steers

May 30, 2022 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

These are our new steers! They will be here @ 12-18 months. They're very skittish still! These two want nothing to do with nose pats or ear scratches or a piece of fruit... YET. Challenge accepted, boys!

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It’s been a long time…

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

...but I'm back! Two new steers arrived 5/14/22

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Yummy treats

August 21, 2021 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

Every summer, my inlaws plant a little patch of corn. My mother-in-law freezes what they can't eat, and then my father-in-law cuts down the stalks and brings them to our cattle. Bessie (left) and Tilly (right) 8/21/21 They sure do love them!

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Mud. I farm mud.

February 10, 2021February 7, 2021 / strivingacres / 1 Comment

When the snow melts off, it's just mud; mud everywhere. Ugh. Belle, Bessie, and Tilley just come in here for feed. They hate the mud, too. I think I speak for all of us here when I say that we cannot wait for spring to arrive! DG thoroughly agrees.

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Doesn’t matter how cold it is…

February 1, 2021January 25, 2021 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

...the cattle still need fed, watered, and checked on daily. Ted going in to get the cattle to one side of the pasture so he can drive in a big round hay bale without worrying about a cow coming out the gate here The hay is in so now to secure the gate to keep … Continue reading Doesn’t matter how cold it is…

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Hay day!

November 21, 2020 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

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Next to last load

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

Last year because of the weather, hay became hard to find around here. We were sweating during January, worried we wouldn't be able to feed our herd. We have just a hair under 50 acres, but it's almost all wooded so not good for hay making (perfect for pigs though!).This year, we are bound and … Continue reading Next to last load

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Beautiful boy

April 16, 2019 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

Well, Bessie is nothing if not dramatic this time around at the end of her pregnancy! After all of that worry on Friday evening and all of the treatment for the milk fever, guess what we found on Sunday morning??? This beautiful boy was born! The vet even checked her Friday night while she was … Continue reading Beautiful boy

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Milk fever!!!

April 13, 2019 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

We just walked in the door (11pm). We've been at the barn since 5:30. Bessie is down. We called for an emergency vet visit - she has milk fever. She seems like she will pull through: she's alert, eating, and drinking. She just can't get up. If Ted hadn't caught it though...she'd have been gone … Continue reading Milk fever!!!

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Happy “dinosaurs” in the holler

December 19, 2018 / strivingacres / Leave a comment

They're so happy when Ted brings them their grain treat. They would follow him to the moon and back because they know he has the opposable thumbs needed to open the grain freezer and pour some into the feed troughs!

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