Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Outhouse
Yesterday my father and daughter were talking and in the course of the conversation the topic of outhouses came up. Don't ask me how it came up but it did. My father said,<br />n<br />n<blockquote>You're lucky, when I was your age we had to go out to one of those little shacks to do our…
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Helping Hand
I see our esteemed <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/01/build/state/25-burns-indianfunding.inc" target="_new">Junior Senator</a> is out helping the poor and destitute again.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., pushed the Interior Department to give one of the wealthiest American Indian tribes in the country $3 million from a federal program intended for cash-strapped tribal schools, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. <br />n<br…
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Health
<blockquote>Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles — all made from cow urine or dung.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050301/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_india_cows" target="_new">cow urine and dung</a> are healthy. I get a real healthy dose (no pun intended) of this…
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Signs
I can always tell a lot about the winter by the antelope in the country. When they disappear in the fall to go down towards the river country you know snow is on the way. When you start seeing them in the spring that means there is no snow on the ground and the likelihood…
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Pat on the Back
I routinely rail against the Government and meat packers particularly when it comes to <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> and Canadian cattle. Any body who reads here knows this. Today I will have to give credit to them for their efforts in further reducing <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/01/build/nation/84-ecoli.inc" target="_new">E. coli</a> in ground beef. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>Of 8,010 ground…
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Waiting Game
It looks to me like the question of the next couple of days is what will <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/01/build/state/30-beef-ruling.inc" target="_new">Judge Richard Cebull decide</a>? Will he grant a restraining order or let Canadian beef flow in. The Cow-calf producers of the country are on pins and needles waiting for his decision. The meat packers are just sharpening…
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Waiting
I can't believe it's the last day of February all ready. I realized it yesterday as I was looking at the main bunch of cows. They are really getting heavy and are going to start calving any day now. They're bred to start on the 10th of March but early ones could start any day…
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Safety
Hope you feel safe now that the Government says <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/26/build/nation/45-canada-cattle.inc" target="_new">Canadian beef is okie dokie</a>. I don't, but I am just a stupid cowboy who doesn't know anything about the cattle industry. I'm so dumb I shouldn't be allowed to speak.<br />n<br />n<b>Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Edmund Burke</b>
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Casualty
Had our first casualty this morning calving heifers. I had to pull a calf about 1:00 a.m. and it was dead when it come out. I have no idea why the calf was dead. Looked like a full term fetus. I noticed the front legs were a little odd while I pulled it but nothing…
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Mud
We in this area have been in a persistent drought for many years now and the outlook for breaking it is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/25/build/state/80-drought-forecast.inc" target="_new">grim</a>. Now California has been having the opposite problem lately with storm after storm flooding them out. <br />n<br />n<img width='110' height='73' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/mudcow.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' />I run across a story…