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Other day I posted about falling in a sinkhole, and in the conversations underground water and springs were mentioned. Here is one of our springs that is the start of a branch that goes through our property and couple others before becoming a sizable creek a little ways down. There has been a...

Several years ago I bought a group of 3 Hereford heifers averaging right around 850 lbs at the Hereford influence sale in Stanford KY. One heifer was bat blank crazy and sold at the next available sale day. The other two were pretty good and bred and calves out. One had an awful looking udder...

Set 15 eggs under a broody New Hampshire hen. Yesterday 13 out 15 hatched.

Getting ready to do the second round of vaccinations on the calves and will be weaning them soon after.

Our place has several sinkholes and more drop out all the time. I’ve found several the hard way with trucks and tractors over the years. A few days ago I was walking down in a holler checking on some pairs we’d sorted earlier. All of a sudden I take a step and both feet go down a hole. I went...

Turned new Hereford bull out with spring cows, and BWF bull out with a few heifers.

Looks like we got a young heifer bred. My guesstimate coincides with when the neighbor’s bull from 2 properties over came to visit for the second time last year. Had two calves by him from the first time out of cows. He must have got in the field of heifers and got into our cow field without us...

We don’t have any wild hogs right in this area, but apparently there are pockets of them south, east and west of here. Not sure how they are going to enforce a hunting ban on them. They will have to be really on a timely schedule to trap or whatever they do to eradicate the hogs or they will...

Calf was born in September, and bloated up at around 2 months old. We treated him and he went back down, but for a few weeks afterwards he would bloat back up about every week or so. He finally got over it seems like, and hasn’t done it any more. He’s going to be weaned pretty soon, hoping he...

These are the two calves by our neighbors presumed Charolais cross bull. I can definitely see the rat tail look especially on the bull ( soon to be steer ). If there’s going to be much dock on him, I’ll just feed him out, he should be fine for a beef. If we keep the heifer will her calves be ok...

Jip loves to grab a clump of cow manure and eat it. Don’t know why, cause a lot of times it comes back up later. Yesterday morning doing her usual job she got an unsolicited mouthful of mud from a well placed cow hoof.

Saw the posts and pictures about Jersey cows on the bull thread so thought I'd share this over here. Here is another picture of Maybell, with her Jersey dished face and big dark eyes. The heifer is her last years calf said to be an AI calf. She's soon to be put with a bull.

This calf is by our 3/4 Angus 1/4 Hereford bull and the mother is a purebred Hereford.

This my oldest cow, she was bought as a 500 lb heifer in a group of heifers at a Hereford influence sale, atleast 12 years ago. She has been a consistent breeder and one of the first every year to calve until last year she lost a little time and calves in March or April. Then did not get bred...

Wife and and I were given a gift card to a fancy restaurant, by some very generous guests at our BnB. We made reservations for today. Wife got an appetizer, salad, cheeseburger, baked potato and dessert. I got an 8oz filet mignon, with salad and baked potato. It was advertised as prime beef...

Here’s our new bull. 14 month old registered Hereford. It’s a real windy day here so feed troughs are everywhere and upside down he didn’t do that. He is docile and from a longtime Hereford breeder.

Been looking at some bulls lately. Settled on one. I’m sure they been picked over pretty much everywhere and places I’ve visited had 3-4 left. All looked pretty good to me, from programs that don’t push their bulls too hard but just good growing conditions. Came down to the final pick between...

Saw this article and it mentions something like make sure your cattle and horses aren’t rampaging through fences. Not sure how to prevent that, animals have been getting spooked for ever by various things, not sure how the eclipse would cause that, I could see chickens going to roost...

We are wanting to get a new pup probably some time this year. We have a coming 8 year old female Blue Heeler. Both my wife and I are leaning towards another Heeler. We’ve had different ideas though on and off. At one point wife talked about a golden retriever so she could have a dog that might...

Been posting about some problem heifers, so thought I’d balance it out, Here’s a purebred Hereford cow with her 5th calf. Calf was born early yesterday. The calf is somewhat linebred, the sire of the cow is the maternal grandsire of the bull the calf is by.