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Is that winter or summer?

All you guys buying snowblowers this time of year, should be buying lawn mowers. You buy snow blowers in July.

Yes, getting it to the ground will be next, but not a bad next

What's with the hair dryer hanging by the engine?

You have to blow hot air on it to get it started?




Had to pull the first calf of the year last night, leg back but luckily the calf is/was fine. Always worried when you find one like that.


It was a straight up blizzard yesterday afternoon(about 2 hours after I took the vid...). Not much a guy can do, mess around too much and the paranoid old cows will wander off to have a calf.
Chopped straw and left.

Chilly out right now and breezy.

Distributors are just wrong, that [bleep] went out last century

i ran drag radials on my charger, they are DOT approved but more of a slick.

these work damn good. https://www.calvertracing.com/caltracs.html

Good luck Sam!

Going to get colder than they predicted at first.

Jim, Daniel boy is quite the character when he wants to be.........grin



Neighbor's bull?

But at the same time it's almost April so you gotta expect an early one.


Wicked wind blowing here and it's cold(for calving).

Right off the bat this morning I found a day old calf hung up in a box elder tree. Still in the hot box(60F), worried about it's feet.......



Later on in another bunch noticed a little heifer calf mooching off of whoever was standing still. Assuming a twin that nursed once and then was rejected.






Around 60-70 calves so far.


And at this rate it'll be another month before there's much green grass.

How about some farming music.

Neighbors bull, and ours too!


We eventually hired some folks in the valley to feed our bulls in their feedlot.

That worked pretty good.

Young Daniel and I caught Richard boy in the open yesterday.

He was trying to get to a new firing position but we got to him first!

Schit.

Cold wind blowing tonight.

Supposed.to be wind and snow.

I guess if cow farmin was easy, everybody would be doing it.

It was down in the teens last night, woke up to some fresh snow this morning in the flathead. It might be a rough spring on calves, good luck. On the bright side, in another month you should be able to get a full nights sleep :-)

Just right of the 'blower, someone is an Amazonian.

Jim, it was a windy one today, but it did warm up into the 20's. And we missed out on this latest snow which is just fine!


Stormin', tonight will be 24 nights in a row, and yes, I'm a grouchy sonuvabitch every morning! But so far so good......



Clay, yeah, the 'Zon is pretty damn handy!

But if we can get it in town I will gladly pay a little more and support the local business. Trouble is local shopping is pretty limited.






Downloading some more stupid vids, I'm not sure if anyone cares to watch or if I'm just wasting bandwidth?

I enjoy the schit outta them Sam.

THAT doesn't look ANYTHING like spring except for the calves and the lack of headgear. Gotta be tough, I guess.

Well okay then Jim, one more.

Heifers are 2/3rds done, all good. Should clarify that every morning the calves stay in the pens while the heifers go out to eat. Thus the note cards so I know who goes back into what pen....

Pretty sure I have the shakey thing down!
(and is it just me or is that cow givin' the stink eye?!)