Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Abuse
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.jpg'><img width='165' height='220' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/01/news/local/32-abuse.txt">2 Billings women charged with abuse of boy</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two Billings women are accused of burning an 18-month-old boy with cigarettes and causing other serious injuries that could prove fatal, a county prosecutor said at the women's court appearance Tuesday.<br />n<br />nStephanie Janie Plainbull, 22, and…
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The Need For Nais
Walter at <a href="http://nonais.org/">NoNAIS.org</a> brings us some interesting information about the <a href="http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/02/28/usda-no-need-for-nais/">need for <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym></a>. All along the government has proclaimed that Nais is necessary to control diseases like <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>. According to the <a href="http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/bsefaq.html">US Food and Drug Administration</a>;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Are the protective measures in place sufficient to…
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Tending Water
Boy it got warm around here yesterday. What little snow there was on the hillside above the corral broke and overflowed my diversion ditch and was flowing down through the corral. What a mess it was making in the corral.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/water02272006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/water02272006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nI felt like some…
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Herd Health
I could make a lot of comments about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/28/news/state/96-cattle-screen.txt">this program</a> that some one has dreamed up but I won't. Suffice it to say that easiest way to deal with the problem of BVD-PI cattle, cattle that are persistently infected with Bovine Virus Diarrhoea, is watching your cattle a little more closely and culling poor…
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Landscape
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/billowing01192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/billowing01192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Billowing white clouds floating over the sparse Montana winter landscape. Taken 1/19/2006.</center>
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Thought Provoking Quotes
Some would say these quotes describe the US. Any thoughts.<br />n<br />n<b>Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise…
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Odd Color
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/brownie02232006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/brownie02232006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Every now and then I get an odd color calf off my mainly Angus cows. Here's one of them. Quite the brown color to him. These odd color ones are always really cute if you ask me. Taken 2/23/2006.</center>
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Interesting series of articles in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/http://www.billingsgazette.net/">Gazette</a> about conservation Easements and there use and affects in Eastern Montana. <br />n<br />nThe Good:<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/26/news/state/25-easement.txt">Conservation easement preserve family's way of life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Glasgow-area rancher Steve Page wasn't thinking about tax incentives when he negotiated a conservation easement on 24,000 acres in Valley County.<br />n<br…
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Sharptail Grouse
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/grouse02232006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/grouse02232006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Sharptail grouse foraging for food during the light snow storm on Thursday. There were quite a few more in the area that I didn't get a picture of. I have never seen so many around during the winter. Maybe the coyotes will bother them and…
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Quarter Designs
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/25/news/state/20-quarter_m.txt">Quarter designs roll out</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The preliminary designs have not been officially released by the U.S. Treasury Department, but children's author Ken Thomasma, who is on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, brought the final four design samples with him to the school for an assembly aimed at encouraging reading. The event was sponsored by…