Category: ranch
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Dry
<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/02/news/local/29-march.txt">March comes in warm, leaves us dry</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>March should have been a lot wetter in Billings. Instead, it was the 10th-driest March in 75 years of recordkeeping.<br />n<br />nJust .42 inch of precipitation, mostly snow, fell on the city during the month. That's just 38 percent of the average 1.12 inches that usually…
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Over
The calves are finally really starting to look good. I don't know what the bug was that was holding them back but they are finally over it and going strong. All told I probably doctored about 25 of them for coccidiosis. Just under 20% of them. I think a few more had it but got…
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Good and Bad
I had to laugh the other day. The Hired Hand was making some wise comment about how much we were feeding all the critters. I told him that it was so nice to have enough hay to feed everything all they want and not have to worry about running out. Hell, even feeding all they…
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Tall Grass
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cow11042007?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/cow11042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A cow grazing out in a field of hay that i let go to seed this year. I see more and more cows out in the field all the time now that other grass is running out. I'm hoping by…
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Weather
This weather is unbelievable. Sunday morning it was 10 below zero here. Crisp and cold. Monday morning it was 30 above zero for a 40 degree temperature difference. Then guess what? It rained last night, yes rain. When I got home from my daughter's band concert last night it was 45 degrees above zero and…
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Life Blood
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/water410112007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/water410112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's amazing how bad some of the springs around here can look and smell but the cattle still think it's really good water. I guess when you live in this dry of country stinky, smelly water is better than none…
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Long Run
About a week and a half ago my freshly weaned calves got to running and tore up a little fence and some of them were in the wrong pasture. No big deal. This kind of thing happens and I didn't mention it here. We got the ones that were out back in and went about…
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Watching
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/dog/lucky10132007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/dog/lucky10132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Lucky was having quite a standoff with some cows while I was working at tarping a hay stack. I never could figure out if he was trying to protect me or play with the cows. Either would be his MO.…
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Caught Up
We are getting everything caught up around here slowly but surely. They had quite a rain snow storm west of us over the weekends with amounts of moisture well over an inch. We got less than a quarter of an inch so it never really slowed us down at all. It is the most moisture…
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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…