2011 has been a crazy year for us and 2012 is looking to be just as crazy. Some of our plans for this year include getting our grain bin running (it's been up next to our barn for about 2 years), and hopefully drop spouts so we don't have to use buckets and a cool whip container to feed our cows during milking. We hope to build a place for our heifers and calfs (so they can stay at our place), possibly upgrade the milk cow winter facility, and (with prayers and a little luck) get picked by a birth mom to adopt her child. Stay tuned for this amazing ride that we are on. We will also be doing some traveling again this year to, you guessed it, some Longhorn shows. So far we are planning on going to Indiana to the Winchester Futurity of the North and the Cherry Blossom in Carolina.
We are also planning on buying some land and renting some more. We need to expand our herd of milk cows and we need land to do it. With wanting to raise our cows outside our experts have told us that we should have 2 acres per unit. A unit is a thousand pound animal. That means that we can fit more 100 pound calves on one acres then you can adult cows. An adult cow weighs about 1500 pounds.
We hope that 2012 is just as exciting for you and yours as our plans to be for us.
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