The job today was to gather and bleed our heifers. The morning was spent gathering them from their pasture and trailing them home. We had a bit of difficulty there… we have a creek crossing that they just can’t hit. It’s built like a sharply turned fishhook, down into a cutbank, and then across the…
Tag: heifers
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Today, we bangs vaccinated our young heifer calves. You may have heard of brucellosis… a bacteria that causes cattle to spontaneously abort their calves. By law we have to vaccinate against this contagious disease. Whether or not there is an outbreak of brucellosis in cattle is a big factor in Wyoming cattle prices… our “brucellosis…
Ambiance of Sorts
Today began our first day of AI-ing. That’s Artificial Insemination for those of you new to ranching/or my blog. InSEMENation… there… I saved you looking it up in dictionary.com as in fertility… baby calves… semen. “But… But… You have bulls!” “Yes, we do.” We have AI’d our first calf heifers for the past few years….
Goodbye, heifers
This morning we sold the last of our heifers. These are the ones we didn’t choose for our replacements. They are almost 2 years old… ready to have their first babies themselves. In my humble opinion, they are pretty good looking heifers! Many of them I had picked to keep, however, if they don’t make…