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I know nothing about lentil hay, but have noticed with our family milk cow, that she gives less milk when fed high quality alfalfa then she does when given course feeds such as timothy grass mix bales. Since she is fed along with the beef cows, I kind of use her as a test subject for how my...

A year ago, the neighbor right next to us had his replacement heifers keep breaking out and getting wilder and wilder. His son trapped a wolf and that seemed to solve the problem. We have had a couple wolves killed by hunters in the past, but other than spotting a track once in a great...

My stepson keeps a herd of sheep to help manage Spurge. He tells me that there is no market for raw wool in the USA now. If that's the case, then any fabric that is still manufactured in the US must be from imported wool? I'm a big and tall guy with a "Made in China, Walmart sale rack"...

We managed to scrounge up a crew to get the calves sorted off and cows worked Sunday. My wife, our three adult sons, daughter in law, 8 year old grandson and a nephew all put in a long day. It was cool and sunny which was as close to perfect for working cattle as I've ever seen! Preg check...

Our ranch is all contiguous with headquarters in a valley and the pastures on the ridges with deep timbered canyons that are oriented away from home. Finding and gathering all the cattle in the fall is near impossible so we just throw open the gates and wait for the snow to push them home to...

Those are some nice big healthy looking calves! We gave precon shots and weighed all our calves last Saturday. I never thought to take pictures. We have to wait for some snow to drive the cows down from the high pastures or else we miss too many in the roundup. I haven't gotten around to...

The younger folks are chatting away on "X" (Twitter). They have networks of cow-calf ranchers, backgrounders and feeders all "chatting" together (usually bitching about the futures trade, COF reports and packers!). They post pictures of their machinery breakdowns, snowbanks or drought...

I'll have to try that. Wherever we doze out fence lines, the hawthorns grow back thicker than ever. Within 5 years or so, you find yourself crawling through the brush on your hands and knees instead of driving a side by side along when checking fence.

We have a 40 acre field that we had plowed last fall, intending to seed it down to Falcata alfalfa and Birdsfoot Trefoil and Timothy this past Spring. We had a very wet Spring and Summer preventing us from getting the job done and our delayed haying season kept us busy until late this fall...

We've been having highs in the fifties and light frosts at night and had almost an inch of rain over the past four days. They forecast a warm, sunny weekend which had me hopeful that our clay mud trails from the upper fields might dry enough for us to finish hauling hay home. Neighbors are...

I use a heavy shop built Hydrabed style one mounted on an old army 6X6 myself, but I've noticed that young and nimble folks tend to prefer the parallel squeeze types like the old style Deweze. They can flip bales, stack and perform all sorts of tricks with them and are quite happy using...

Years ago, I was range doctoring a two year old angus bull for foot rot. The rope I had tied him to a tree with was equipped with a quick release honda. I had my arm around his head, had inserted a length of plastic pipe down his throat and was in the process of stuffing some large sulfa...

That song sums it up pretty dang well! It has been one long, hard winter and a tough calving season so far!

We have a couple hounds and my son's 18 year old Heeler/Aussie cross cowdog decided that our accommodations suited him better than at home. He sheds hair like a Belgian Draft horse and is incontinent so we go through lots of Lysol, paper towels and vacuum bags! He thinks he runs this place and...

Years ago, I put wider 15"X7.5" Ford F100 pickup rims and mounted ATV tires on my Suzuki Sidekick. I'm still using it to check cows but it's all beat to heck and some parts are getting hard to find. I have an old Kubota RTV 900 that came from a mining company's excess equipment auction...

Back in 1992, I bought a scale and started individually weighing my calves when giving preconditioning shots in the Fall prior to weaning. I have kept individual records on each cow since then. Every calf's sex, birthdate, actual weaning weight, nursing index and (in more recent years) a...

I didn't make it past that "calf pulling" scene in the original Yellowstone either! Folks tell me that this year's episodes do educate the public about some of the challenges that modern ranching faces but I just can't get the taste out of my mouth that that first episode left! We have...

It always looked attractive to buy a bred cow and cash in after a few months, rather than feed them for a year and a half waiting for the pay day! My cows maternal line trace directly back to the ones my dad had when he moved here in 1942 so I have no first hand experience with purchasing...

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