Category: Questions and Answers

From Sandy: A couple of questions for you: What is involved in “prepping” the heifers? And another term you have used — What is meant by “sustainablity”? <For us, prepping the heifers for calving season means worming them. Anything that grazes can get worms. Cattle wormer is applied to their backs. Thankfully, we don’t have…

WoW! I guess not having many Q&A sessions last year let you stock up on questions! From Dawn: I’m learning a lot from the Big Trails blog about ranching, but I do have a few questions!  <For those of you who don’t know or remember, Brandon has a weekly blog over on his website BigTrailsBeef.com….

Constance: the boot in stirrup seems to be getting most of the mail, but what about other boot? Why does it not show in the stirrup seen under the horse’s belly? plus this rider has on very clean looking jeans …. been promoted from drag ‘n flank to sitting on a horse watching the show? No,…

Marilyn: Question: how is your new granddaughter? and the bigger siblings doing? Reagan seems to be doing fine.  I’ve actually not seen her much, she’s had lots of visitors, so I’ll bug her more when things are quiet again.  Big Brother is in love, Big Sister is not overly impressed at this point.  Eh, that’ll…

Sandy G. : Thanks for posting those “old photos”. It made me think of a question to ask you: Did you teach school in the past? Do any of your daughter-in-laws or your daughter teach school? No real education experience here… I always thought I’d be a teacher growing up… but no, my actual degree…

JoAmy: How did you meet your husband? Well, strangely enough, I’ve been asked this question enough that I actually wrote a blog post about it HERE.  It’s all about coincidences… Joan: Do the new calves and their moms stay in a barn for a while or do they just hunker down and keep each other…

Steph: I was wondering if you use the same veterinarian for both large and small animals. Yes, we do.  We’ve used The Good Doctor for many, many years… with occasional visits to others as needed, depending on the situation.  Most of the vets around here handle both large and small animals. Irmgard:  Carol, since some…

Marilyn:  How do you find buried pipeline? You must have some new device to do that? The device is called a shovel… a thing that doesn’t necessarily like to work on very hot days… 😉 Carole:  I know you have lots and lots of acreage as do most ranches out there, so how far do…

Tom:  For Q and A Who makes that mini-truck you have? I want one. Do you know Shreve Stockton, she must live nearby? My little white truck is a Mitsubishi Minicab.  Google “Japanese minitrucks” and you will find many styles and prices!  Some are pretty decked out, but mine is pretty plain.  We put on…

Joan: “What do you suppose made it tangle like that? Isn’t barbed wire usually tight enough for that not to happen?” Twists in barbed wire are usually caused by wildlife jumping them and catching on the wires with their legs.  The barbs then actually catch on each other and hold themselves in that twisted position. …

Jo – “is that an old osage orange tree?” and Kay – “What kind of tree is that ? Is it alive ?” This tree is an old cottonwood.  It is alive.  There’s a little road that is used occasionally that runs underneath it… it depends on if the gates are open (and cows present)…