In today's video, we have a full morning of chores ahead of us. First we drive the cows out of the hay. A couple of the cows try to give us the slip and get past us. They love their hay, but research has shown that eating hay at night will make them more likely to calve during daylight hours, so out they go. Then we drive around the pasture looking for any calves that may have been born in the night. We use our Honda side by side for this chore.

Next, we use our John Deere 332D Skid Steer Loader to feed hay to the cows and their calves. I man the gate to keep the cows from escaping from the pasture while Harland brings in the hay and loads it into the hay feeders. We take a small break to visit with Rex, The Wonder Calf. Rex, a Red Angus/Charlois mix, had a rough birth, but with our help, he made it, and is now our biggest calf.

Finally, we feed hay to the replacement heifers. Born a year ago on our farm, they've grown to an impressive 1/2 ton each.

Hang around until the end of the video to meet our house cats, Kitty, Muffin, and Emily.

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ABOUT ME: My husband and I have a farm in northeast Kansas where we have an Angus cattle herd, and raise row crops (corn and soybeans). Hubby has been farming all his life, but I came late to this farming thing when we married over 10 years ago. My videos show the daily doings on the farm from calving to corn harvest, and everything in between. Farming is a 365 day per year job, all day and sometimes into the night. It is by turns frustrating, exhausting, full of hardship and disappointment. But it also has many rewards, from the glory of a sunrise over a field of corn just popping up in the spring, to watching a newborn calf take it's first breath.