Category: The Ranch
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She Fooled Me
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/horses03172006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/horses03172006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Yesterday morning when we got out to feed the cows I noticed one cow wandering around the feed ground, tail in the air, smelling all the calves laying around and bawling like mad. Quite the unusual behavior for a cow so i went over to check…
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Two More Gathered
Well, quite a day yesterday. Both Sunday and Monday I found a dead calf out on the cows in the morning, so yesterday I was pretty leery about going over to feed because I was afraid I would find another dead calf. Both the calves that died were so picked apart by the Bald Eagles…
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What Snow?
I see by the paper that Billings had a nice little <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/20/news/local/25-snow.txt">snow storm</a>. I had been watching the weather and knew the storm was coming and was hopeful and dreading it both at the same time. A nasty storm while calving is always difficult but the moisture sure would have been nice. As it…
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Bums Update
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/bums03162006?full=1'><img width='250' height='187' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/bums03162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Like I said I was going to do I got the twin calf pulled off the <a href="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/twins03082006?full=1">heifer</a> and have the two different bum twin calves shown in the picture to feed. The one that has been on the heifer I expected to give me trouble…
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Train of Thought
I came over a little hill this morning and spotted something that started a whole train of thoughts running through my head and I thought I would share how it went.<br />n<br />n<br />nwhat's this? two calves following one cow…is one of them lost….no…look at them, they are very small and look real similar…look at…
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Black Cattle
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/red03102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/red03102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a><center><br />n<br />n<center>One of the Two-year old heifers with it's baby calf. It's RED baby calf. Where the h**l the red color came from is beyond me. The cows will throw an occasional red calf but I have never had it on a black two-year old before…
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Spring Has Sprung
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/spring03062006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/spring03062006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Flowers are starting to show their color. I guess that means spring is here. This comes up in a sheltered flower bed against a cement wall so it gets a lot more heat and warmth than the average spot around here. Still, spring has sprung.…
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Twins
I just got in from checking a heifer I had been watching since 4:00pm just waiting for her to decide to calve. Guess what? She had twins. It is in a way exciting. It doesn't happen on my place very often. It's also a pain in the ass too. Where do I put the cow?…
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Money To Burn
Boy, it must be nice to have all that money to burn on a facility designed and built by Dr. Temple Grandin.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/05/news/business/45-stock.txt">Facility will handle livestock peacefully</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A new livestock handling facility that will have curved chutes, round pens and other stress-reducing innovations will be built this year at Montana State University's…
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The Cows Have Started
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/firstcalf03042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/firstcalf03042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowcalf03042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cowcalf03042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>I have been expecting to see a new baby calf on the cows any day now and it finally happened. Two baby calves in the herd yesterday morning when we fed. I am sure glad to see…