Again a day of calving and vaccinating… it was pretty much a ditto day for yesterday… One question was posed about yesterday’s activities… “How do you know which heifers you’ve already vaccinated?” Which is a great and legitimate question. One that just points out where I fail in describing our ranch and everyday actions. Glad…
Rust Colors
Today was spent checking for newborn calves and vaccinating some of last year’s heifers for various illnesses that cattle can get these days… BRSV, lepto, BVD, IBR, and PI3. Confused? Yeah, that’s understandable. Basically it covers them for many viral infections that can mess with their pregnancies (though they aren’t pregnant yet) or give them…
Bottle Baby
Guess what I’m doing? Wow. Good guess. We have a little bitty calf born to one of our heifers… He’s super tiny and his momma doesn’t have much for a bag (in other words – she might not be giving much milk) … so we’ve decided to supplement his daily allowance. There you are… come…
Nice, Kitty, Kitty
Last year’s entry about today’s event was labeled “Herding Cats“. In it, I elaborated how much moving baby calves was a painful, frustrating process which let me lose my temper and get disgusted at anything with Angus blood and 4 hooves. And a few other moving things… Today’s version was… not like that at all!…
What is it Video
Here it is! The newest video of calving! Beware… slime is involved.
What is it Winner
The question I posed yesterday: What is this? Drumroll please…. Yup, calf hooves! Sandy, sorry I about made you ill… DK, putting on gloves never occurs to me… my hands are washable and I don’t go farther in to contaminate her… This heifer was very calm… but the hooves seemed a little large… so I…
Worless Wednesday – “Guess What”
Wordless Wednesday for this week is a riddle… And a fairly easy one… What is this? Answer in my comment section, and I’ll draw one winner from the correct answers and send you a memento of Wyoming… a small rustic reminder that I exist out here! Good luck!
Twisted
In case you’ve wondered… Yes, calving season is cruising along. We have calved all but 9 of our heifers… so we still are doing our evening, 2 am, and early morning checks. Last week our cows started calving as well. We do not check them in the night, but do try to keep a…
Fossil Cliffhanger … part two
Fossils are prolific in Wyoming. This place is heaven if you like fossil fish… Then there’s mucho dinosaurs in the Big Horn Basin… Even in my front driveway are these… thousands of white seashells imbedded in a matrix. And my friend Shreve over at Daily Coyote makes extra bucks selling belemnites! But for now… these…
Fossil Cliffhanger
Keeping an eye out… is Lucas… I’ve been on a kick lately… One of the things I received from my Mom’s house was my Dad’s small collection of fish fossils from the Green River formation in southwest Wyoming. It is way spiffy! The wheels started turning… and soon I have a plan for my bathroom…
Gettin’ the Job Done
We went to a bull sale in Riverton today. Bull sales have their multiple appeals… and I’ve written about them before, here and here. How’d we manage to get away from calving? Well, the boys came home from school for the weekend, specifically to cover for us. They are GOOD men! I’m always interested in…
Mud
I really think the Q & A yesterday went quite well… Please give me leave to touch on a few other comments… Sara… the plight of the family farm/ranch being passed down to the next generation is insane. I’m not much for sharing politics on this blog, but Congress better address this *fast* as next…