Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Cows
A couple of pictures I managed to get of the cows during yesterday's disaster. Enjoy.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows02192006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows02192006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cow02192006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cow02192006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<b>I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make…
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Perception
I post here an article in it's entirety as I <a href="http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2006/02/saturday-night-at-westerner-kept-woman.html">found it</a> for My Darling Wife and <a href="http://karbonkountymoos.blogspot.com/">all women</a> like her in the <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/">farm and ranch business</a> whether mentioned here or not.. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/1562-Perception.html#extended">Continue reading "Perception"</a>
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Do Over Day
Today was one of those once ever 3 months, do over days. Days you really wish that you could do over again. <br />n<br />nCalving went pretty good overnight but the problems started once the sun came up. I went to start the tractor so i could feed and guess what? A flat tire on…
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Intestinal Fortitude
So far I've been real happy with the new hired man. He works hard and pitches in whenever necessary. I like that. I have come across one thing since we started calving heifers that I don't like. If a cow turns and faces him he runs off.<br />n<br />nNow understand, when you are dealing with…
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Cold Weather
The past few days have been something. The cold weather, down to 20 below, and the wind, windchills to 40 below, has really made calving miserable. Luckily I'm only calving the heifers right now and I do that here at the house where I have a barn to pu them in.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/barn02172006?full=1'><img width='250'…
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More Laws That Won’t Be Enforced
I found this whole announcement, …interesting to say the least.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=C3E27012-A44E-4F37-B9ACCC42D23ADC2D">Harkin to introduce bill on livestock competition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says livestock producers would see more competition and fairness in their industry under legislation he's introducing today (Thursday). Harkin, a democrat, says the bill is needed to offer a series of…
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Shelter
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/shelter02162006'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/shelter02162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The Heifers and their calves that are back to their home are using this rock formation for shelter from the nasty wind and cold weather nature is inflicting on us right now. This calf was loath to come out of the shelter of the rocks…
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Wyoming Ranchers Get The Big Picture
All the proponents of coal bed metahnae (CBM) development keep telling us that the water they discharge is all fine and dandy and we as ranchers should quit complianing and let this development continue like it has in Wyoming. Now I see Wyoming ranchers are starting to see the problems of this CBM water.<br />n<br…
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Blowing
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/blowing02142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/blowing02142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>If you look real close you can see the wind blowing the fresh snow on the hills. Can you say wind chill?</center><br />n<br />n<b>Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.…
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False Information
<a href="http://www.meatnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article&artNum=11085">AUSTRALIANS ANGERED OVER IDENTIFICATION RULES</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Australian beef producers have hit out at the imposition of a mandatory livestock identification system, which they say erodes the sector