Last week at the stiles farm was mostly racing to beat the rain and get as much done as we could. The beginning of the week we were mostly in the field, and fed hay to the herds. On Thursday we worked the main herd, brought in the vet to pregnancy check, and selected some heifers to retain and sold as many steers as we could. Due to the rain we had to call it quits early and got about 80% of the herd done. We will hopefully finish working the herd later, if the weather cooperates, and get some more condition on them now that most of the calves are gone. Now that most of the fields are wet we are doing some necessary maintenance on the hay tractors that we use everyday, and getting some other things done on our to do list.
Georgina Macias Fall 2018 Intern
Looking at the heifer calves we want to retain, and keeping an eye on condition.
Keeping an eye on some of the early calves that have dropped
