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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, […]
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 […]
My favorite time of the day is chore time. Whether 5 am or 5 pm; whether the moon or sun is setting it is such a peaceful time of day. Cattle are always happy to be fed at the feeder during the winter months when the ground is too frozen and barren to graze. They […]
Why eat out of the trough when you can lodge a protest over hay you don’t like by standing in your trough! This is one of my all-time favorite pictures and it was taken last February. Licorice is now in the freezer providing yummy homegrown beef on our table, filling our tummies, and giving us great […]
It takes a real confident person to admit they were wrong… As I sit on the ATV or what some call a side by side reflecting on the day it was delivered. It is called a side by side because the 4-wheel ATV sits three people legally in seatbelts. Although two people are more comfortable […]