Our last calf, Beau, was born April 23rd.  So, we have two bull calves and three heifers- not bad!  All look very healthy and they must be pretty tough because they went through some loud thunderstorms, lightening and heavy rains this month!  We put them out to pasture on May 13 this year- so they didn’t have so much mud when all the rains came.  We left them there a week and had to move them back so they didn’t muddy up the pasture too much.  Seems like it’s been raining or storming every other day this month!

Beau wasn’t even a day old when he got into trouble (think I’ll rename him Trou-Beau).  He somehow got on the other side of the fence.  The photo below is what I saw when I came around the shed.  Hmmm… something looks out of place!!  Poor guy- bet the electric fence got him a few times.  He sure was scared, running along the fence line, with Mamma on the other side!  I shut off the fence and held the wires apart, trying to convince him to go under it.  It took a while, but he finally got the nerve to go through.  I happened to be alone that night too because Craig was out of town!  So, I was very happy when I got him back in!!

Our plans this Memorial Day Weekend are pretty much the same as every other… work!  This year we are adding another paddock on the side hill.  This will be a good place to send them next Spring to keep them out of the mud.  Another problem we had with all this rain is that the water table is high, and the basement of the old house flooded- which is where the well is.  It started pumping sand and mud, plugging up the pipes to the water tank.  Geez… another problem!!  But, it finally cleared up after pumping a while.  We need some sunshine and dry weather because we need to cut hay soon!

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