Last night this cute little red heifer calf was born. Her mother is the nice red heifer Garry bought last fall near the river. She was afraid of all the other heifers, even though she was bigger than the rest when she came in the matrushka van - there were photos in September or October I think.
Garry was off to look at another pregnant heifer someone wanted to sell this morning. He thinks he will buy her, since one of the cows has aborted for a second time and is only giving a few liters of milk now, so he could sell her to make room for a new one. There are four cows in the herd that are supposed to calve in the next two weeks.
This morning the guys cleaned up the manure pile behind the barn, Max and Andree drove the tractors and wagons out to one of the fields to pile it there until it can be spread. Serosia loaded like three scoops of manure into each wagonload, with his loader tractor. They just finished the reno on the loader, rebuilding the bucket among other things, because they plan to use it when they start to remodel the old collective barn in March.
Garry and I walked over there this afternoon, he wanted to check something out in the barn they will be using, I'll put some photos I took up tomorrow. I looked outside at 9 pm, and the muddy ground is now covered with snow. There was a few little flakes falling at four when we were walking back, but I was pretty surprized to see that it was collecting out there, since it was above freezing most of the day.
We walked because the Lada is getting fixed, we will be carless for a couple days, it is getting the brakes done and the shocks again- it had shocks put in last spring.
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