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Location would make a difference. No market for cross bred bulls here.

I do understand that there are lots of variables involved. In the the case with our one and done cows the landowner wants all the cows gone by September 1. So about mid August they get gathered and the old cows get a trip to the plant. By mid October the cow price will drop every year. And...

Good moisture and a great grass years certainly has a lot to do with the weaning weights. But the extra time on the cow helps a lot too. I had one pair escape this year. They were caught by a neighbor 6 weeks after the rest of the cows were shipped and calves weaned. He turned into the...

Mine aren't tarped and neither is anyone else here. The top bale will be a pain to feed once it gets frozen this winter.

As good as those heifers look and as much as you might like them this is not the time to keep heifers. A heifer kept during the high price part of the cattle cycle. Usually 10-11 years, will never be as profitable as one kept in the low price part of the cycle. Example, a 600lb calf kept this...

Edna (my wife) had fed that calf the last day and a half it was here. It was an orphan from Bert. When he stopped by to pick it up Edna was just walking out to the corral with a bottle. He offered to let her continue feeding it until fall. Two problems with this graft. The calf was too long...

Gave up on the one with the long term bottle calf. The cow wasn't interested in being a mother. I had already bought a replacement for her. Plan A was to ship after we branded. Plan B was the calf. So I went back to plan A and hauled her to town yesterday. The calf went back to Bert's...

I have 2 of those right now. One lost her calf 3 or 4 weeks ago. Didn't find the dead calf for the better part of a week. At that point I went oh well she gets a ride to town. Then I caught her letting other calves suck. The other lost a month old calf. Wednesday last week 2 bottle calves...

I see he was back on CT the other day.

Wolves killed a cow dog a few weeks back in a young ranchers backyard. This happened somewhere over by Nicky's place. The article I read said it was a cow dog and the pet his kids played with and it was killed in the yard that his young children play in. He was more than a little upset.

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I had thought about going to that Hereford sale yesterday just to watch. Mostly to watch the horses sell there. But we lost a neighbor lady last week and the funeral was yesterday. Durkee was missing from that bull sale as we were all at the funeral.

I used Simm Angus bulls for a lot of years. They worked real well for me. The cows weaned big calves which sold at the top of the market.

I like to sit and watch it grow.

After some time has passed just quietly and casually tell him that if it were to happen again he will spend more time in the hospital than you would in jail. Just look him right in the eye and never say another word. Things said quietly and calmly and then left to stand have a much greater...

My neighbor who is now 36 was helping the family move several hundred cows down the road. This was long enough ago that he was riding a Shetland pony. Road there is reasonably straight. Some guy came flying down the road. Rear ended the pony blowing right out from under the boy. Luckily the...

Back a lot of years ago, I was in college so it was several centuries ago. Went to a place that had a lot of buffalo. They were bangs testing the herd. They had a field full of the positives. They were advertising buffalo hunts. A hunter would show up and pay $$$$ to shot a buffalo. One...

I got to see my red cow today. First time I have seen her since late April. I have had a few choice names for her.

What if the cows are black? Heck for $50 a month I will let the cow live out her entire life here on the ranch. And for $100 a month for her entire life when she passes we will bury her with a full funereal. Even flowers on her grave. Justin can name those sheep...... On second thought you...

I just opened the gate so the steers could go drink out of the Burnt River. It flows fast enough to prevent freezing on most of it.