Post by AnnB (NE) on Nov 30, 2009 11:49:49 GMT -5
I am happy to say that "CopperBottom", the steer, was delivered to the USDA processor this morning. I'll be interested to see what he weighs. He's not quite as finished as I would have liked, but it was either today or January 4th, and I didn't feel like waiting that long.
And of course, it would work out that there was no one here to help.
I thought I did a pretty good job though!
I moved him through 2 other pens (cow pen & heifer pen) to get him to a pen that I could back the trailer (almost) up to. Then I had to catch and tie the horses and take their pen apart. I then used those corral panels to make an alleyway from the pen to the trailer. The pen sits on the top of a terrace, so there was no way those panels would hook back together the way they're supposed to, so I had most of them tied together with baling twine! Even had the panels tied in several places to the back/sides of the trailer with baling twine.
And he was a good boy, I showed him a bucket of grain and then walked it into the trailer. Came around behind him and climbed into the pen, just waved the sorting stick a bit and he went right into the trailer and scarfed down that grain. Then I had a MESS getting all that baling twine untied so that I could get the door to shut! One of the panels was so close that the door wouldn't go past it, and I didn't have a pocket knife with me. I was SOOOO worried that he was going to finish his grain and figure out that the door wasn't shut before I got the baling twine untied!
But I got it all done and got him over there, and was only 15 minutes late for my appointment! Poor fellow didn't want to unload in a strange place though. It took a bit of encouragement to get him to step out of the trailer, and the folks over there were real patient with him.
One down, one to go.
Missy, the heifer, goes to her appointment at the non-USDA processor December 22.
Ann B
And of course, it would work out that there was no one here to help.
I thought I did a pretty good job though!
I moved him through 2 other pens (cow pen & heifer pen) to get him to a pen that I could back the trailer (almost) up to. Then I had to catch and tie the horses and take their pen apart. I then used those corral panels to make an alleyway from the pen to the trailer. The pen sits on the top of a terrace, so there was no way those panels would hook back together the way they're supposed to, so I had most of them tied together with baling twine! Even had the panels tied in several places to the back/sides of the trailer with baling twine.
And he was a good boy, I showed him a bucket of grain and then walked it into the trailer. Came around behind him and climbed into the pen, just waved the sorting stick a bit and he went right into the trailer and scarfed down that grain. Then I had a MESS getting all that baling twine untied so that I could get the door to shut! One of the panels was so close that the door wouldn't go past it, and I didn't have a pocket knife with me. I was SOOOO worried that he was going to finish his grain and figure out that the door wasn't shut before I got the baling twine untied!
But I got it all done and got him over there, and was only 15 minutes late for my appointment! Poor fellow didn't want to unload in a strange place though. It took a bit of encouragement to get him to step out of the trailer, and the folks over there were real patient with him.
One down, one to go.
Missy, the heifer, goes to her appointment at the non-USDA processor December 22.
Ann B