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Philip d

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We?re still loading cows up and there likely will be some left as of Monday morning to go but I?m starting my temporary full time job Monday morning at 9! Really looking forward to the adventures that lay ahead!
 
I was wishing the trucks were here today. I've got a winter's worth of manure from 70 five to seven hundred pound calves in the barn. I started loading it out yesterday afternoon. I loaded two loads this morning,started loading the third and broke the loader frame. It broke on the side where the oil reservoir is in the frame,naturally. It had to be taken off so I could tip it in all directions to get it cleaned up and plated real good. Finally got it back together and everything picked up at about 4:30.

Another one of those days when I would have quit if I could have just walked away,but the manure would have still been in the barn anyway if I did.
 
Getting those danged dairy cows out of there will eliminate about 75% of it though.

It's been over 15 years since mine went. It still seems like we loaded them out yesterday sometimes. I had a little twinge of "what am I doing",but it didn't last long.
 
You will do great! My husband did great, after giving up hogs and dirt-farming. You may get a tear in the corner of your eye a few times (hubby and I both did)... but it fades away... and other interests replace it.

Go, Philip. Go, Philip. Go, Philip! We think ya can!!
 
I think your feeling more relief than sadness with the dairy cows leaving. In times gone by many dairy farmers sold out when they retired and it hit them hard emotionally. Now it is more of fellows leaving because of economic/profitability issues. So I think that your total stress will drop quite quickly.

I missed the hogs for a short time after I sold them in 1987. I did not miss the 18 cent fat hog price. They dropped 20 cents in one week. Then ten year later they when down to 10-12 cent her locally. I was really glad I got out before that.

We have two finishing barns that my son runs. I help him out and that gets me enough of my "hog" fix.
 
I think your exactly right JD. I?m really enjoying having the feeder cattle around too to satisfy my cow itch!
 
Thank you Bob! I?m working on the potato farm that wecrent land to until September then I?m going to trade school to take an electrical program hoping to eventually become a licensed electrician.
 
Good choice. My daughter is a master electrician in Alberta (employs 6 people, including her older brother who is a master mechanic - got tired of greasy hands ! ). All the best.
 
After 30 years, ours left on Sept 23, 2001, at 10:30 in the morning...but who"s keeping track? Last one loaded, a first calf heifer, kicked me in the thigh as she went into the trailer. I was almost healed after she had kicked me 3 weeks before. (I"ve actually had people ask me if I"ve ever been kicked by a cow!) Haven"t missed them yet...there is life after cows.
 
That?s about how long maybe a little longer I?ve been milking everyday too. I remember 20+ years ago we had a real nasty one that had a real hate on for me. Second or third calver, she?d stay quiet and not move an inch,she?d wait until I got exactly where she wanted me then as quick as the blink of an eye she?d nail me right square in the face and cart wheel me backwards on the floor. She got away with that twice before she got her way and didn?t need milked anymore.
 
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