Category: drys

  • 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…

  • Drys

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/drys05152007?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/drys05152007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Gathered up some drys, cows that have no calves, and late calvers to sell. I have a semi load that will go out this afternoon and be on the auction tomorrow. Next week or the week after there will be…

  • When it Rains, It Pours

    On Monday we got over an inch of rain. Last year I would have given anything for moisture, so far this spring I am getting more than enough. I rode across my plowed field that I want to seed to grass and my horse was sinking in about a foot and there was water standing…

  • To Market

    <center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 640px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Gathering the last of the pairs and the drys. The drys are going to market. There are fewer than normal for me so it was a pretty good year last year with an easy calving season. Taken 5/8/2006.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nAbout a month…