So Long Steers

Last week, the 350 steers that Ben was custom feeding for the Klingenberg family, up and left the farm! Well, it wasn't quite that simply.

First the steers from my uncle's place had to be brought over to join the ones at our place. Work started around 6 that morning, so the boys lucked out and got to help bring several loads from Bruce's.

The steers wildly hopped out of the trailer!

Then they got to wait...

Then Grant took charge of loading them into the pots (that's a technical term for what you might call a cattle-semi).

Through the gates and up the chute they went. It was a pretty smooth operation - much more so than last year. The difference was in the addition of alleyways and gates that the farmers made over the winter.
Just like last year, Ben and I thought it'd be nice to offer the guys lunch after they finished loading cattle. But since it went so much more smoothly, we ended up eating lunch at 10:30!

And now...it's kind of quiet around here and for now that's perfectly fine.