Time to help the guys… Our heifers have been around my house, eating in the fields… but it’s time to sort them. Brandon has the paperwork and their lifetime stats. Birthweight. Wean weight. Average Daily Gain. Due dates. Genetics. Now it’s time to gather them up and sort them. Will they stay or will they…
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Mountain Time
Since we took the blood samples from the heifers yesterday, they were ready to be hauled up to their mountain pasture. Now, historically, this trip is known for RAIN. Sure enough, scattered thunderstorms were predicted. Luckily, the rain held off until after we were done! It was a fast and crazy ride… cool weather, good…
Heifer Test
It was a long day of gathering heifers and bleeding them for their 30 day pregnancy test. Brandon is the main guy for taking the blood samples from under the tail. I’ve done it a couple of times. Tess has done it. Today, Megan relieved Brandon twice, giving him a break. A little technical advice……
Moving on the Mountain
The distinctive clang of the horse trailer gate signaled another day of cowboying in the Big Horns. Four horses were unloaded. However, one of them wasn’t Panama. Instead I had volunteered for babysitting duty. As you know, it’s rough country from my other posts about this same gather. I have a knee that’s acting up,…
Better View
Have you ever seen people just stop in the middle of the road… like they own the whole world or something??? Then everyone has to go *around* them… isn’t it sooooo irritating? Well, that was us. Three semi loads of yearling heifers stopped on the county road and a loading chute pulled up by a…
Wordless Wednesday – “Taking Them Home”
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A Little Cow Work
We prepped the heifers for calving season… Daniel, Brandon, and Tessia had it all well in hand. I was charged with making a replacement ear tag… and by the time I got back, there were only a few left to do… I’m not too worried… the next couple of weeks will be full of cow…
So Long, Girls
Daniel pitched some hay for the heifers, and we jumped on four wheelers to bring them in from the surrounding fields. These heifers will go the sale barn and hopefully find good homes somewhere else as replacements. They didn’t make the cut here, but maybe they’ll work on another place. I always feel bad for…
About Missed It
I about missed it… After running to town one day and then the next day… having to get a heifer off the highway and back in the pasture where she belonged… I managed to *just* get to the corral to help re-tag and age brand the last of the replacement heifers. Obviously, they didn’t need…
Weight
Weight is important. A rancher’s paycheck is based on the weight of his cattle. If he sells calves or steers or old open cows, the price bid is based on the weight and condition of the animal. We keep a close eye on weight. We take actual weight on newborn heifer calves. We weigh them…
Deal With It
We bangs vaccinated our young little heifers today… Most of the work preparing for today, I have missed. That was bringing them to the corral, sorting off any older heifers and cows, and weighing them. Today I was late as well because I had to get lunch going first. We did half of the bunch…
I Don’t Wanna…
Trying to clean and cook and accomplishing neither. So I did what all good procrastinators do… I went and helped the guys with the heifers! Besides, it had gone from grey and gloomy to a nice, sunshiny day… and I don’t wanna cook when it’s nice outside! The boys had already processed many of the…