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Windbreaks, deep bedding, plenty of good feed for cows in good body condition. Those things don't just happen by themselves.

Nice job Sam!

Going good here Richard. Been on grass since the 26th, had to move across the road yesterday. Took about a hour. Which is a day and a half quicker than moving babies across the road last year... It was a nightmare last year. Built some free standing panels, Subdivided some fields, cows are trained better and i've learned a few things.

Like most things i've found the effort up front is paying dividends now. Someday, and i hope its this summer, i'll have a corral on that farm and i'll really be in tall cotton.

Y'all take good care of your cows up there Sam. Bravo.

Haha! I would love to send you a bill.......if I weren't so ashamed of my work!

If I send you a bill, you have to promise to accept an unlimited lifetime warranty in which you will be required to send them back so I can repair them correctly at no charge to you.

When I was helping Uncle on his operation, We would start calving on the meadows in January. But our temps are not quite as cold as Sam's.

The pairs go out on USFS about June 1. The idea is to get enough growth on the calves before that date so they could take good advantage of .Gov grass.

Cold down to ten degrees or so, and even snow was not nearly a worrisome as 34 degrees, wind and rain. If a calf is born in that schitt, there's a good chance he will never make to his feet.

The year I was living on the ranch, we lost about 20% of the calf crop at ten to fifteen days of age. Finally identified the culprit as cocccidiosis. Gallons of Sulmet into the water tanks put an end to the infection. When the herd hit the forest, a bunch of hereford cows were nursing adopted holstein steer babies.

Damn, I miss saddling a horse and riding out in that crap to bring a baby back to the barn across the saddle horn with momma following behind. I miss hitching up the team at minus ten, and feeding 100 momma cows every morning. Best job I ever had. But there was no way to raise a family and pay medical bills on the prevailing wage.

All done calving only lost one. Too wet for field work.

Working at my second job.

Good looking bunch of cows Sam!

Thanks gentlemen, my dad gets the credit for the nice cows.



Jim Conrad, before all of this crap started floating around I had planned on sending you some random 'treats' for your much appreciated work.

I knew you wouldn't want any money in return.



But now all you get is a check(cash it fast or lose out...).

Started weaning calves last weekend (fall calver). I wean for three weeks in three different groups, earlies go a little long, mids are about right, lates go a little early, stragglers I hang on to and feed out for locals.

Apr 3, 2020
Dairy farmer Dale McClellan was forced to dump 6,000 gallons of milk Thursday because it was sitting in his tanker unused.

Even though the raw milk was still good, the demand is not there and he had to get rid of the oversupply.

It’s yet another byproduct of the hit to the economy caused by the coronavirus. And it's a big hit: almost $14,000 worth for McClellan.

“It's a mess financially for us,” said McClellan, president and CEO of M&B Products in Lecanto.

It’s the same way in dairy farms nationwide. Demand is down since the panic buying has decreased and schools — the primary buyer of M&B milk — are closed.

McClellan was careful how he dumped the milk on his property — too much and it would be harmful to the waste stream at his farm. There is the possibility, he said, of dumping more unused milk in the future.

McClellan employs about 150 employees at his dairy farm.

“We’re doing all we can to sustain ourselves,” he said. “We’re not going to lay off anybody."

Haha!


Have you had to use them yet?

Not yet.
(I still have them here in town at my house)

Our 11th(?) wedding anniversary is coming this next Friday.

AKA Good Friday.

Woman has no idea....

That’s when we do ours, but we’re also in slightly lower latitudes.

Thanks for your work fellers!

The suspense is killin me. What did I miss?

Would she fall for "showing her the headcatch"....?????

Gents, I am gonna go try 'em out right now.

Good night.


Report tomorrow.

I used my avalanche shovel to help my wife scoop up catkins [sp] from our fruitless mulberry tree and watched my youngest kid and his kid power wash our driveway and patio. I am exhausted and totally awestruck by our ranchers and farmers.


mike r

Calvin chains?

Mass majority of calves here was born between January1 and March 1. Fertilizer and overseeding pastures is done on the rocky or and Higher Ground from mid February to the 1st of March Prairie ground with good dirt & hay fields and such I ain't done yet. May not be planning oats for hay this year plant teff grass earlier though .