last cows left today

730virgil · Mar 23, 2021

the last of my cows left home today. I have mixed feeling about that after 17and half years.
I couldn't take of them any more baling hay was getting to be to much.

buickanddeere · Mar 23, 2021

Feel your pain. We shipped ours 22 years ago, still miss them sometimes.

mass1030 · Mar 23, 2021

I have not had cattle for number of years because of an allergy issue , spent most of my life around cattle and was hard to let the last ones go .

41B-boy · Mar 24, 2021

Genuine condolences!
My massive dairy of 3 Jerseys is my link to sanity... Loves me some Jerseys!
people? ... some times not so much. Without my cows, I'd be one cranky pastor.
( tongue planted firmly in cheek ( kinda ) )

Fr. Bob

chcase · Mar 24, 2021

My milk cows left in the 1980's The last cattle a few years ago. Truly miss the cattle but not all the headaches in -30 degree winters

Bruce from Can. · Mar 24, 2021

I understand the feeling. I suggest getting some young cattle in to background on pasture this summer or rent your pasture to some younger person trying to get a foot hold. Have date when the cattle can arrive, number of cattle total and a positive date when they must be off pasture. Seeing the stock , even if they are not yours, will be nice to look out and see.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 24, 2021

I went to college in 1967 to get away from my dad's dairy. No regrets. Only lesson I learned growing up on a dairy is how to spread BS.
George

John T · Mar 24, 2021

Virgil, I know the feeling I kept cattle 40 some odd years on farms I owned and remember when the last ones left, sort of bittersweet.......

John T

miangus · Mar 24, 2021

It must be hard. When Dad passed in 96 I started selling off the cows and then I bought a better haybine and started adding new heifers. It was a Angus beef herd I had started the herd in 1960 and left them to Dad when I moved off the farm. Now that my two boys have left home and have new jobs I am rethinking the cows. It's the hay baling thats getting old, actually the raking oddly enough. The boys come home and help when they can but I expect that will decline with time. Maybe I need a cart rake.

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 24, 2021

I am sure it is hard. We sold the dairy cows in 2013. I was very scared we could not live without the monthly income. It took some time to adjust. Now we have a small beef herd and finish out all our calves. Making some other adjustments this year as well because I now have no one to help. Not sure how it will go when I can't do it anymore. Tom

centash · Mar 24, 2021

There is life after cows....and it can be good. Different, but now it's all your time, to do the things you want without being tied down to the responsibilities of a herd. Yes, it's hard, but the bucket list for most of us hasn't gotten any shorter this past year, and the time to fill it has.

Ben

Bud Sather in MT · Mar 24, 2021

Still have mine. Just came in from making the 6 AM check. One down 27 to go. Supposed to start o the 28 of March. Nice weather so far. Bud

ztrmower · Mar 24, 2021

been their done that been close 15 years now. still miss them but not in the winter nowdays

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