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nenmrancher
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:09 pm    Post subject: Greetings from a cold snowy New Mexico Reply with quote
Hello all,

Just thought I would see how far this storm is covering. The northeastern plains in New Mexico are covered this evening with anywhere from 5" to a foot or better, and that is just on our place. What fun it is to calve in a March snow storm, wouldn't be bad if it would dump and leave but it is still coming down. This stuff is thick and heavy with moisture, everything is all ready sloppy muddy.

I know I should not yell to loud as it has been a long time since we have had a real March snow storm, and the much needed moisture, but it coulda done this before we started calving.

Hope everyone has a safe and pleasent evening.
Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
send it on, please, we got about 4 inches of snow at the most, thank you thank you thank you thank you..... Do any of you remember "The Shining". We need the moisture so bad, if you kick the ground under the snow it is powder. I think that BMR and Lilly should share, got my pictures from Lilly today, THEY HAD A FLOOD. What is that like I have forgotten??? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sw wrote:
send it on, please, we got about 4 inches of snow at the most, thank you thank you thank you thank you..... Do any of you remember "The Shining". We need the moisture so bad, if you kick the ground under the snow it is powder. I think that BMR and Lilly should share, got my pictures from Lilly today, THEY HAD A FLOOD. What is that like I have forgotten??? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what?


I don't have much to share. The Big Muddy has been dry for 20 years. Cowboy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Where exactly are you located Big Muddy, must be in montana or southern alberta?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nenmrancher,

How do you deal with spring storms in your area? I don't imagine that you have access to sheds for shelter. You probably just ride them out I suppose and hope for the best, as seldom as you have that kind of weather in your country.

Do you winter on just supplement like cake or lick? Maybe you have some of that good Canadian river country for shelter.

Good luck.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Big Muddy rancher wrote:
sw wrote:
send it on, please, we got about 4 inches of snow at the most, thank you thank you thank you thank you..... Do any of you remember "The Shining". We need the moisture so bad, if you kick the ground under the snow it is powder. I think that BMR and Lilly should share, got my pictures from Lilly today, THEY HAD A FLOOD. What is that like I have forgotten??? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what?


I don't have much to share. The Big Muddy has been dry for 20 years. Cowboy


Big Muddy- You can't have been that dry last year-unless they closed the border to snow and rain too--- I think sometimes we forget where we live-- An old fella I respect very much, Bill Cornwell, told me that we living on the prairies forget that we live on borderline desert--always one rain or one inch between a good year or a disaster...Either the best place and grass in the world or the worst- few inbetweens...Last year was one of the really good years around here...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oldtimer wrote:
Big Muddy rancher wrote:
sw wrote:
send it on, please, we got about 4 inches of snow at the most, thank you thank you thank you thank you..... Do any of you remember "The Shining". We need the moisture so bad, if you kick the ground under the snow it is powder. I think that BMR and Lilly should share, got my pictures from Lilly today, THEY HAD A FLOOD. What is that like I have forgotten??? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what? Say what?


I don't have much to share. The Big Muddy has been dry for 20 years. Cowboy


Big Muddy- You can't have been that dry last year-unless they closed the border to snow and rain too--- I think sometimes we forget where we live-- An old fella I respect very much, Bill Cornwell, told me that we living on the prairies forget that we live on borderline desert--always one rain or one inch between a good year or a disaster...Either the best place and grass in the world or the worst- few inbetweens...Last year was one of the really good years around here...



We had alot of snow last winter but were so dry we had no run off. It was dry in the sping for a while then rained pretty good and had a decent hay crop but it shut off the first of July and it was to dry in Sept to germinate Fall Rye. It was to dry to germinate fall rye the year before as well. You guys over at Glasgow got way more rain then we did and over at Westby they got more. We weren't stopped once for rain during haying. Our Lewis and Clark equivilent Palliser called this area a desert and he was right.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For the most part we ride them out. Right now I have six calves in the barn here at the headquarters and 4 more in another barn at the other set of corrals. We only had one in the house today, which is a good thing. Most of our calving pastures have creeks or some kind of cover for the cows and calves to hide out in.

During the winter this year we supplemented with 40% protein cake and a 20% protein block, and when the ground is covered we feed either Cane or Alfalfa hay. We also use a custom mineral that is made just for the area we are in. We are just east of the Canadian river by about 10 miles.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's it like....??? Well...sometimes it's a lil wet, sorta wet..gettin wet...soakin wet....cow p'n on a flat rock wet.....git everthang ya own stuck wet.....n can my cows swim wet????....n..their feet are webbed wet..oh yeah, and git the john boat out to check cows wet...hehehe...wet nuff for ya???
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lilly,
looked at the CD WHICH WAS GREAT BTW, WHAT WAS THAT SHINING STUFF IN THE CREEK? Have not seen that for awhile Confused thanks we should share with more
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glad ya enjoyed it.....that shiny stuff...was that wet stuff Iwas referrin to in a earlier post....hehe
i think it would be really neat to share with others...just gotta git them cameras busy clickin n put cd or video together...share share share lol
and you are right sw....worlds apart.... the same..yet different. I'll admit after seeing what you all up there in north country hafta endure thru winters and such...ya werk harder at ranching than we would ever dream of having to do down here in warm country. I admire ya'll for what you do.
We got it easy ya might say ..or I think we do...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the_jersey_lilly_2000 wrote:
Glad ya enjoyed it.....that shiny stuff...was that wet stuff Iwas referrin to in a earlier post....hehe
i think it would be really neat to share with others...just gotta git them cameras busy clickin n put cd or video together...share share share lol
and you are right sw....worlds apart.... the same..yet different. I'll admit after seeing what you all up there in north country hafta endure thru winters and such...ya werk harder at ranching than we would ever dream of having to do down here in warm country. I admire ya'll for what you do.
We got it easy ya might say ..or I think we do...



It must be easy down in Texas if Haymaker can make it. At least he tells us he's makein' it. But then I remember something about the warden lettin' him us the computer so maybe he's makin' liecence plates. Cowboy
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