Moving steers

We started the morning moving a group of steers across the road and closer to the barn. They were sold several weeks ago through Superior Livestock Auctions and are going to be loaded Thursday morning.

This group will be going to an all-natural farm in New York. A pretty long trip ...

I love this time of year when the grass is newly green and the calves are fat and shiny...

Moving calves went pretty well, then Ben had to doctor a bull with foot rot...

What is foot rot? Click here.

The green is KoperTox, it protects and seals the infected parts of the foot to keep it from getting worse. He gives anitbiotics to heal the foot and infection. Then we had to find and doctor a sick calf...calves get pneumonia, too. This one was pretty sick -

Ben was able to get a rope around it and doctor it from the four-wheeler. It had a pretty good momma that stayed close by.

All is well... After lunch Ben sprayed pastures and the kids and I went to track practice. This is a picture Ben took yesterday while he and Jack were spraying a field. They had stopped to refill and Jack washed his hands in the foam marker...