The Warm Up

October 14, 2003

A Test Feed in the Early Morning

If you want to see a happy cow, give it a pile of feed concentrate. They just love the stuff and will follow the wheelbarrow around trying to get in the bag. This also makes it very dangerous, because the animals will eat too much and get sick and die. Our cattle feeder works but it is too small. I will talk to the mason about building a second one on the other side of the milk barn.

Milking operation starts

The Fence Posts are installed

And its a darn good thing too, cause the animals are everywhere. Unfortunately, the guys put the flat side of the post on the outside of the corral. This makes the fence a lot weaker but once the concrete is set, there is no moving them.

Our busy construction site.JPG

The cutter is Running

The mechanic arrived at last and got the motor install connected to the cutter and running. Now all we have to do is haul a ton or two of grass a day.

Julio and Milito at the cutter

A Milking Machine?

We went ahead and did it. We bought one. It will be a few weeks until it is delivered but it is on the way

A Generator too?

Electicity.... gotta have it. Cant run the milking machine with out one. Felicita is hot on the trail of a good deal and we will see what she can come up with