| On my farm we have over 200 cows, and
about 10 bulls.We have alot of problems with bulls.Last year
one of our bulls had a |
| heart attack, and one got really sick so we
had to sell him. |
| During the Summer the cows and bulls have to
go out into the pasture to graze and for the cows to get bred.They
stay out in |
| the pasture until winter begins.When winter
begins, the cattle come into the corals.They get fed hay and
rolled oats everyday. |
| In December some of the cows start to calve,
but most of the cows start calving in January.When calving starts
my dad has to |
| go out every night to see if the cows are calving.
My dad goes out at 8:00 and then he comes in and sets his alarm
for 1:00 am. |
| At 10:00 pm my mom or my brother go out and
check the cows.My dad checks the cows at 1:00 am.Then he goes
out at 3:00 |
| am.Then he goes out at 5:00 am, and he checks
just before we do the chores. |
| We use a tractor to feed the cattle.We feed
them pen by pen.There are about 20 or 30 cows in each pen.We
have to have |
| somebody watch the gates while somebody is in
the pen with the tractor.We do the chores every day.We give the
bulls, the |
| cows and the hiefers grain everyday.We have
one pen of cows out back in one of the pastures, because they
are not ready to |
| calve. |
| In my spare time I work with my 4-H hiefer.
4-H is where you can learn about animals, sewing, and a lot more.My
hiefer is |
| brown and white.she is already halter broken,
which means that you can just walk up to her and slip her halter
on. |
| One more interesting thing that happened is:my
dad got a name for our farm, it is RPS Gelbvieh.Thats because
we raise |
| gelbvieh cattle! The reason that we raise gelbvieh
cattle is because they are really tame and gentle. All of the
cattle that we have |
| will not run away from my parents.We used to
have limousin cattle, and they would run away all of the time.We
switched to |
| gelbvieh cattle about 2 years ago.(:My dad is
really happy that we did:) |
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