Month: March 2021

One abnormally warm spring day in 2013 I got off work early and decided it would be a great afternoon for a hike. I could hike the hundred acres around the ranch and check the cows that were grazing in various smaller groups of their choosing. I had cabin fever which was ironic as I…

I felt similarly today as I did in this journal entry from almost seven years ago. Sometimes as a writer you just don’t have the time to sit down and write. It seems that the obstacles outweigh the ability to focus on the many reels of footage rolling through your mind. The grandson’s sing-a-long show,…

Fearless is a big BOLD word. I was reflecting on this yesterday afternoon as I was doing cow chores. I find that being with the cows and observing them I can relate human behavior to cow behavior. I was in the barn loading the ATV with some hay for the bull and pulling some bales…

Once again, this year, it was discovered while removing the bull from the cows during calving season we had forgotten to put hay for him up in the bull pen. Each year it is always a different reason it is forgotten. This year was no different. When hay was brought in, abnormally, months early. The…

The most amazing thing that I remember from the second year of managing cows had nothing to do with cows.  It was the birth of a white fawn. A beautiful, rare animal she was! But I’m getting ahead of myself. There was older doe who called the ranch her home and would often be seen on…

When it is time to give birth cows will do just about anything to calf where they were birthed. I have watched this firsthand for over ten years now. Why is this? I don’t have a PHD in cow phycology but I’m leaning towards instinct versus memory recall.  I didn’t have the memory of my birth…