Category: The Ranch
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BRRRR
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/brrr11292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/brrr11292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Do you know how hard it is to get a picture that says cold? This was my attempt. It was below zero when this was taken. Taken 11/29/2006.</center>
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Cold Weather Report
I guess I lived through the cold weather, if I'm writing this I am alive. It was down to -20 the other morning and we have had quite a few cold mornings. It's always such a fight when it's cold. Between cold engines not wanting to start, frozen water and cows thinking they are starving…
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Damn Cold
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/cold11292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/cold11292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The yearling heifers waiting for a bite of feed on a cold morning. It was -20 F around here. Too damn cold for this time of year. The cattle might be ready for it but I definitely wasn't. Taken 11/29/2006.</center>
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The Hunt is Ended, For Now
Well, I hired a guy for the job. The response to my ad for a hand was pitiful and there was not much to choose from. Usually I get more responses than I did this time. I don't know what that is about.<br />n<br />nI am not overly impressed with this guy but what am…
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Calling Cows
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/call11212006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/call11212006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows working in so I can give them a little cake. They came from miles once I started honking the pickup horn. They sure were looking forward to it. Taken 11/21/2006.</center>
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Calf Update
The feed is doing the trick. A few days ago <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2210-Time-To-Feed.html">I talked about</a> how a some of the calves were coughing and not feeling good and I thought some feed would do the trick. It did. The calves are perking right up, the sick one is better and there is no visible coughing in…
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Time To Feed
Yesterday I got the replacement heifers in so that the young person who got the <a href="http://www.meritheifer.com/prog.html">Merit Heifer that we donated</a> could pick her up. While getting the heifers in I noticed quite a few were coughing and one was acting a little sick. The sick one was not coughing but had a snotty nose,…
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Trailing In
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail11132006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail11132006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows trailing to the gate I just opened. How they knew that I was going to open that gate and let them into a new pasture is beyond me. Fresh grass won't hurt them though. Taken 11/13/2006.</center>
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Reading Minds
Sunday when me and the Boy went out and looked the cows over, I commented to him that the cows were looking good but that it looked to me like they had got the best out of their pasture they were in and that on Monday I was going to get the water set up…
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Replacement Heifers
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/gather11062006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/gather11062006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Gathering the replacement heifers to work them today. Vaccinations, pour-on and the vet will be here to Bangs vaccinate them. Taken 11/06/2006.</center>