The first Q&A session for 2022 is here!
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What Is a Headstall? – video
Here’s a quick video to answer a question from a couple of weeks ago… After I posted a Throwback Thursday post telling about breaking a fancy headstall and ruining my day… many of you wanted to know, “What is a headstall?”
Little Q&A
I’ve had some good questions in my comment section lately, so I thought I’d take the time to answer them. Joan: Your prose is beautiful. You could write a book about your cattle adventures! You’ve probably covered this before, but the partner cows belong to neighbors that share the pasture? Thanks so much! I might…
Questions and Answers March 2020 Edition
Pam: How many hours? (to do the decorated pysanky eggs) Most of my eggs take two to three hours per chicken egg. I have some videos here, just type in “pysanky” in the search bar… or here’s a good one. For Paul and Pat who asked about those old trucks … sorry, haven’t got back…
Questions and Answers January 2019 Edition (part two)
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…
Questions and Answers: January 2019 Edition
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….
Questions and Answers Video September 2018
Finally! After starting the upload process this morning… at four in the afternoon, I finally get notice that it is complete! Of course, it is a long video… I take you along on a ride… answering questions and showing you country and cows! I made others throughout the day. Yes, I will post them later….
Questions and Answers: May 2018 Edition
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,…
Questions and Answers – December 2017 Edition
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…
Questions and Answers: May 2017 Edition
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…
Questions and Answers March 2017 Edition
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…