Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: The Ranch

  • Gone

    Shipping is done. I have to work cows today but the calves are gone. I was disappointed in the weights of the steers. I thought they would weigh a little heavier. They averaged 517 pounds and the heifers that I sold averaged 440 pounds. Even the buyer said they looked like they would weigh heavier…

  • Clean Out

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/clean09132007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/clean09132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We cleaned out the windmill pasture the other day and this is all we could find. Everything else moved out to the better grass towards home on their own. Lucky or not is the question. We found 13 critters while…

  • Grass

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/grazing09122007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/grazing09122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some fine grazing here. The funny thing is they are just moving through this pasture on the way home for shipping. I think I will put the cows back out here after shipping to graze this off. It's nice to…

  • Heard

    I heard something very interesting the other day. I had a neighbor preg check his replacement heifers and ended up with 22% drys. Well over normal for them just like my 24% dry was well over for me. Now I really wonder why my neighbor, over 10 miles and 3 herds away, would have about…

  • Bella

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/bella09102007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/bella09102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>New addition to the menagerie around the house. We found her the other day while riding in the Williams place and got her in yesterday. She is totally blind in her left eye and about 90% blind in her right…

  • Trailing Out

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail09072007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail09072007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We gathered the far, rough pasture yesterday to get the cows closer to home for shipping. Here we are trailing them up the raod on the way out. You might remember earlier in the summer i said I lost a…

  • Will It?

    There is an 80% chance of rain in the area according to the <a href="http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/byz">National Weather Service</a>. The question in my mind is if it will rain or not. For some reason I doubt it. Hopefully I will be wrong.<br />n<br />nIt really struck me Tuesday how bad I need some rain. A semi came…

  • Water

    I've had water problems for my cows for a couple of days now. One of my generators that I pump water with decided to give me fits. I had to sit and babysit it all day yesterday to try and figure out the problem. It's one of those things that the more complicated something is,…

  • Different Year

    It's amazing what difference a year makes. Last year was fairly dry but I felt there was a decent amount of grass. The cows were really restless though. I would put them in a pasture and they would walk from one end to another and back again. They never seemed to settle down. Last year…

  • Preg Check

    We Preg-checked the replacement heifers yesterday. I wish I could say it went well but that wouldn't be the case. It is normal for me to have 10-12% dries on my replacement heifers. This time they went, I hate to admit it, 23% dry. Almost twice what is normal. When the vet checked the first…