It has been raining off and on since yesterday afternoon so we did not chop today. That is ok because we had a "To do list" that needed some attention. I steam cleaned 12 calf stalls today so we would be ready for all our sexed semen heifers that are coming this summer. Ryan welded some stalls that had broken and Kyle and Dennis replaced a post that had been knocked out earlier.
Before lunch we had to run and get a load of feed because we ran out before we could load up this afternoons feed. Dennis and I went for it and I brought my camera along to take a pic of this tractor
Grampie this is just for you, Did you ever think you would see a RED John Deere. My Dad is always telling my boys that they need a red tractor on the farm to make it a real farm. He used to sell Massey Fergason many moons ago. Yeah I know.. a what? The last time I saw a Massey Fergason was when Kyle came home from Ecuador with pics of one on the back of a truck. They sent them all to a third world country because no one was using them here!!! Well Gramp this is as close as you would get to getting us to have a red tractor on our farm.
These next pics are Dennis getting feed at the Tozier Farm where we have been buying feed for a little over a month. 
Dennis was checking the bucket out because they feed some kind of mixture of Morton's Fish leftovers to their pigs and he doesn't like to mix that in with the feed. It is nasty and it stinks Dennis wishes they would cut the plastic so he could see the pile better but they don't very often. Right here he is scooping up grass. It doesn't look very appetizing but the cows love it.  See the steam that tells you how warm it is, It smells really sweet too. We haul about 12 ton of feed in this truck every time we go. That will last about 2-3 days. We do use some of our feed as well so that isn't all the feed we go through in a couple of days. As you can see the loader just reaches over the top of the truck so when the truck gets full Dennis has a hard time getting the feed out of the bucket. Well I guess this is all for now. My son is waiting for the computer. Got to look up some bull information. | 
Jun. 4, 2008 - Loved reading about your farm days