We are a 5th generation dairy farm in Wisconsin. My husband and I rotationally graze our dairy herd and heifers and also raise beef and goats. We are in our mid 50's and are the primary labor on our 60 cow dairy. We hope you find our blog interesting. Sometimes its hard to explain every detail so feel free to ask questions and we will do our best to answer them. This is a daily diary about our life running a dairy farm.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Ouch!
Today was busy again with the normal stuff. Bruce got the feed box filled and also bedded the heifers at Ed's with corn fodder stacks. He fixed the spreader that had a chain jump off the sprocket when Ed was using it yesterday. He dug around in the steer yard at the ice that Ed couldn't get loose in hopes of getting it all cleaned out soon. The frost is going out of the ground so we will be done spreading until the ground firms up again. While Bruce was feeding tonight we had a heifer calf arrive. Thankfully she is a much better drinker than the last one. She would have starved to death in the wild. We tested milk again tonight. Our highest cow is giving 125# per day or approximately 15 gallons! The bill came today for the pump repair. $1365....OUCH! Guess we need to keep milking cows.
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