Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Cute

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cute02262008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cute02262008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Cute calves, what more can I say. Taken 2/26/2008. </center>

  • Eating

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/eat03012008?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/eat03012008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<br />n<center>The cows deciding to eat the grass hay on a drier southern slope. They are looking good. Hope the weather holds. Taken 3/1/2008.</center>

  • Rain

    Somebody really needs to check the calendar around here, it rained of all damn things yesterday. Rain. I can see snow on the first of March but rain? That just isn't right. The ground is still frozen hard and there are still snow banks all over the place. Rain just isn't right.<br />n<br />nIt has…

  • Wrong Target

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=622E4DEB-BC7E-5C54-61A44BA8E575CD19">Harkin won't rule out mandatory national animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The farm bill may not be done yet, but that isn't stopping the Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin from looking ahead. And he's looking ahead at a program that's proven controversial in the past.<br />n<br />nDuring a teleconference with reporters Thursday, Harkin said, even…

  • Nylon

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/nylon02192008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/nylon02192008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nylon living with the heifers. I swear he is sticking his tongue out at me. Taken 2/19/2008.</center>

  • Who Knew

    [sarcasm]<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/28/news/state/42-wolves.txt">What a surprise, I never expected this to happen. Who knew?</a>[/sarcasm]

  • Blue Sky

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/blue02192008?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/blue02192008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Blue sky, warm temperatures, baby calves running around, it don't get much better than this. I hope it doesn't mean it is going to turn nasty come March. I don't need that. Taken 2/19/2008.</center>

  • Another Case

    <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a7KiAfFIHgjM&refer=canada">Canada Says Alberta Dairy Cow Is 12th Mad-Cow Case </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Canada confirmed its 12th case of mad-cow disease in an animal born about five years after the nation banned some feed ingredients to halt the spread of the brain-wasting illness.<br />n<br />nThe sick animal was a six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta, the Canadian…

  • Happy

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/happy02162008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/happy02162008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center>.<br />n<br />n<center>The chickens are very happy with the heifers being around home. Lots of stuff to scratch up and peck at. Between the scratch feed and warmer temperatures their egg production is really taking off. Taken 2/16/2008.</center>

  • Here

    Well, the new hired hand is here and working. He is Internet savvy enough that I am not going to say any thing above and beyond that. I hope it works out for both of us. <br />n<br />n<strong>I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. Maggie Gyllenhaal </strong>