The Best Dog

iCattleMgr

Last week we had to let go of our dog. Last week we found out she had cancer. Last week after fourteen years we had to put her down.

 

Last week was a hard week, and this week is a hard week. I keep looking for her and she is everywhere. I see her next to me because she was my shadow. I check her water bowl and it is gone. I start to call her name and even say it out loud. I think its time to feed her, worried she is hungry. These things will fade. But my memories of her will not.

She was known as our bar dog. Not because she liked to frequent bars, but because we found her at a bar. She was a little red ball of fur with giant brown eyes and a head bigger then her body. It was love…

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Baking Easter Goodies with Kiddos

iCattleMgr

Easter Bunny Cake Bars

I love baking with my Lillie!  She is in second grade and 8 years old.  We decided to try this recipe for Easter Bunny Cake Bars.  It is a very simple recipe.  The entire recipe took us under an hour to make from start to finish.  Lillie and her brother Robbie each took an Easter Bunny Cake Bar in their lunch today.  And one for their teachers too.  :))

Ingredients:

Easter Bunny Peeps (different colors would be pretty)

Yellow Cake Mix

4 egg yolks

1 egg

1/2 cup of butter

Sprinkles

3 1/2 Cups of white chocolate chips

14 oz can of sweet/condensed milk

vanilla

1. Mix softened butter in mixing bowl

2.  Add egg, egg yolks and vanilla.

3.  Slowly add yellow cake mix.

4.  Spray cake pan with non-stick cooking spray.  Spoon cake mixture into pan and spread evenly.  Now you can sprinkle on the…

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Fire

Our thoughts and prayers are with Farmer Bright and family.

Farmer Bright

The first thing that went wrong was me oversleeping. But I don’t oversleep. I have two alarms on my phone so that never happens. Friday morning I woke up a few minutes late. My first thought was that there would be no leisurely reading my local tv news app on my phone as I got my coats on.

Exiting my bedroom hallway I saw the real problem. Orange flames lit my living room windows from outside. I thought our chimney was on fire, but for better or worse, it was the farm’s shop building. Like the smoke to come, the next part gets hazy. 

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Trust but Verify…

Feed Yard Foodie

I did an interview last week with a reporter who asked, “Why does your farm participate in 3^rd party animal welfare audits?”

My answer: I ask that my customers trust me to be a good farmer, but I open my farm to auditing so that they can verify that I practice what I preach.

No matter how good a job you do on your farm, an audit is a stressful time.

• Hundreds of pages of documents are checked to make sure that records accurately demonstrate daily animal care practices.
• Hours are spent checking the farm’s facilities (feed and feed mixing areas, cattle pens, water tanks, and corrals) to ensure that animals have good living conditions.
• Cattle handling is observed to ensure that good welfare exists while animals are interacting with their human caregivers.
• Caregivers are asked questions about farm protocols on many different issues relative to animal care…

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