The calves are so much fun to watch!  In the evenings they are especially active, chasing each other around, dancing and kicking.  So glad that they are all healthy and growing fast!   We put the cattle in our far end pasture which is usually pretty wet, but not so bad this year, so they have been enjoying the green grasses.  The grass was so high we could hardly see them!  And, we are sending our yearling steers to market this week, hoping to get a decent price for them.  We are renting a bull again and he should be here the first week of August.  And, once we know who’s pregnant, we plan to sell a few more this Fall.  It is too hard for us to work full time and feed that many cattle.  So, until we can make more hay ourselves, we want to limit the size of the herd over winter.  Funny how we worked so hard to get the herd built up and now it’s too big!  Counting the calves, we have 27 head right now!

We also had a small “Farm Tour” in July where we invited Craig’s mom, aunt, uncle and cousins over to see the calves.  They were here last year and really enjoyed it!  So, we hope this will become a yearly visit!

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