Category: The Ranch

No surprises here. After 2 warm days and 1 warm night that included 6 hours of rain it is officially muddy around here. What makes it worse is that it is also icy and snowy along with the mud. Talk about miserable. Not only for me and mine but for the critters that have to…

I never thought my comments about <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000184.html">chickens</a> would raise such a response. Every thing from my Darling Wife's and Peggy's passionate defense of the merits of chickens to the discussion between Joe and Cliff on the feel of chicken shit on the hands and between the toes. Joe and Cliff, I can proudly say…

I am normally not a night person. Being a rancher most of your work is done during the daytime so I have never been much into staying up late. With the heifers at home it is a different story though. I take until midnight watching the heifers and the hired man is on after that.…

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I tell you what, I barely brought these heifers home in time this year. We have been having 2-3 calves a day ever since we got them home. Up until now it has been going real smooth but this evening I finally had to pull the first one and I just got in from finishing…

I wish I knew what it meant when 27 degrees F seems like a nice summer day. I just got in from the barn and I thought it was 50 Degrees out, but it wasn't. A cow had just had a calf and I was sitting there watching it to make sure it got up…

The first <u>scheduled</u> calf arrived this morning. I say scheduled since I did have an early one due to the bull wreck but I don't really count that one. The Hired Man was watching them at the time the heifer started calvingand he did a real good job with the situation. I had been a…

Well we brought the 2 year-old heifers home today. My Darling Wife calls them the maternity ward. We only had to trail them 5 miles but the heifers thought that we were killing them. There is houses and vehicles and other trappings of civilization is a little bit much for these heifers. They are pretty…

I've had <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=phpdata/news.inc">these feelings</a> before. It hasn't been too bad this winter though. There has been enough of a break in the cold snaps around here not to drag me down too bad. The winter that most stands out in my mind is the winter of 96-97. I will never forget sitting on Christmas…

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