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    Need advice on starting in Cattle

    Get grass established before you buy whatever you want to run on it.It could take a year or two to get a good solid stand of grass.Talk to your local extension agent to see what grass will do best for your particular soil.Don't think that your going to make any money the 1st couple of years...
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    Brands

    It's been 45 years since I've heard of any cattle thieving around here.Too many deputy sheriffs driving around.If my cows get out,I'm called within the first 15 minutes.Too many cars on the highway and too many people living around,scattered throughout the county.Very few places,in my...
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    Cow water

    I've drilled 5 wells in the last 2 months.1 really good,2 pretty good and 2 dry holes.Found water from 18 feet to 43 feet.If you go much deeper than 70 ft in some places it will be salty from oil well pollution from decades ago.We drill past water for about 20 feet to have a sump for smalls to...
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    Superior

    Now that's gambling
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    Superior

    It's fixing to get crazy.
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    JD 535 blues...

    It is a combination of what Silver and Evans have said.You'll find out both are right.There is something worn or broken in the mechanism that you did not replace and running over rougher ground now and then is setting the machine off to tie early.
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    more wild flowers and weeds

    We have mustard weed here. My conspiracy theory is that the chemical companies pay the seed companies to add a little mustard weed and mare's tail seed to their wheat seed so the chem companies can sell more chemical.
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    #29 the last to calf

    I have talked a couple of moms into letting me unstop a clogged up teat before.Out in the pasture.Some you don't even dare get between them and their calf.
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    Wheat Hay

    Bought 87 bales of wheat hay for Winter.Really clean and very heavy bales,but they were still high in moisture content when they were weighed.I was just buying by the bale as I normally do,but the guy before me weighed every other truck load.The bales he was getting came from the same field as...
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    Melting Snow

    Got 2 inches of rain over night. YEA!
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    Melting Snow

    I just wish I had some water period.Any amount would be fine.
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    Aches and pains

    Mr. FH knows exactly what he's doing.You can't allow any little,not even the tiniest chink in your armor or the next thing you know,you won't be able to fit into those jeans.You'll be in your favorite chair all the time in those loose fitting athletic pants.Then it's into some fleece lined...
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    Things you hate 😁

    Just South of Abilene,Texas.Would call it West Central,Texas
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    Things you hate 😁

    After I added the last 2/100ths to the rain total I came up with just a tad over 1.8 inches since the end of August 2021
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    Things you hate 😁

    Rain? What is this thing y'all call rain?
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    What is an annoyance that Ranchers have to deal with everyday?

    Leaky water trough float.One that doesn't do it all the time.
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    Kinda cool news about Little H

    Just goes to show that there is still something to the saying "hard work pays off". Congrats to your daughter,you,and your wife.
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    Howdy

    Won't be so funny in 20 years when there's another 2 billion people on earth.A billion people are starving each day right now.What's it going to be like with another 2 billion added to the mix?
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    Howdy

    It only gets worse.385,000 babies are born each day on earth.Only 150,000 people die each day.
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    Not fit for man nor beast

    They are $70 a bale without delivery.
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