Take every chance you get to practice your numbers. It doesn’t matter if you’re helping your dad tag replacement heifers… Even if you’re running the end gate on occasion… Just get those tag numbers in the correct order, and practice those numbers over and over and over and over…
Tag: replacement heifers
Replacement Heifer
The home made branding iron heats in the cedar fire. The snow melts backwards in ridges. The heifer clangs into the chute. The iron is pulled and a “0” appears on the heifer’s hip. Born in 201*0*, it is now forever imprinted on her hide. She holds inside her black self, fantastic genetics, a good…
A Different Perspective
We retagged our replacement heifers today… making them “official” members of our cow herd. You know the drill… getting new large tags and new numbers as opposed to their little tags that matched their mommas’ numbers… an age brand (this year it’s a 0)… and a nice new green tattoo. I’ve documented this in the…
Little Women
Aha! For those of you who couldn’t see my logo… I had it as a .tiff file not a .jpg, so that might have made a difference… Try this. Better? I was plugging along at cleaning on my house this morning, when Vernon came back to the house. They had been retagging our replacement heifers……
Puppy Thursday… I Fail AGAIN!
Yeah… I know… I FAIL! I don’t have their weekly photos ready… But I was WORKING! <insert whine> Honestly, yesterday we sorted off our replacement heifers… and today we retagged them, age branded them, and tattooed them. And then we had to trail them to the Mills Place. LET ME EXPLAIN… We retag them because…