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The "how is this a show heifer" prompted me to post a few of ours we are dragging this year. This is FSSR Satin N Lace, a late October Executive Order x Spring Velvet heifer. We kind of like her. This is FSSR Hamilton, a Sept born Reactor x Robin's Kiss bull. This is FSSR Drizzle, an...

Calving has been an interesting year for us this time. So far, calved out 29 cows and had 6 sets of twins (well, 5 and a half, but that is a long story!). We have been breeding cattle since 07, so 13 years now. In those 13 years, best I can remember is 7 sets TOTAL in all that time, with one cow...

We have our spring calving group at our other farm about 3 miles away. I went to check on them Saturday, and found a first calf heifer, what I thought, dead! Saw her from the road, belly up. I jumped the fence and ran over to her, and found her with her eyes rolled to the back of her head on her...

Sale time for us. We are trying something a little different this year, and put this little lady in an online sale that starts tomorrow: She is out of Upperclass, and her dam is Simmi Valley Zsa Zsa (a cow Jeanne raised). She has a heck of a really nice Sept born bull calf on her sired by FEN...

We are in the middle of calving right now, and I knew I had one close last night. She has been slimming for days, and really cut lose last night with the junk. Had my dughter check her when she got home from school, and we have a new heifer calf! Side note, this is Cookie, who was 4 in May...

We have completed our 11th National Classic this week. I am happy to be back home and having my grass cut (second cutting) for hay! Our National Classic was long, but good. This was my last year serving as the Missouri Junior Advisor, after 6 years in the position. I needed to step down to...

We have a purebred simmental calf that developed lighter spots on his one back leg. As he has grown, the hair has grown even faster than the rest of the hair. You can not pull it out (it is firmly attached), and even though it looks coarse and wirey, it is not. It is soft like typical baby hair...

We had a pretty good show in OK this year. There were 300 plus head of cattle there competing, and we made it to the top with two! Our bull was 6th overall purebred bull. He is in the top 1% for Calving ease, and we like him a bunch. I just wish I could sell him! Our son picked up this...

We were coming home from the Simmental Regional show in Stillwater, OK and blew TWO tires in about an hour's time in OK. Three years ago, we blew two tires in OK going to the Texas nationals. I am begining to NOT like OK roads! We had the trailer checked before we left at a tire shop, and they...

This was a county over from us. Watching the process with the drone was really neat! Glad there are still good people out there, and that our local news can show a story like this...

First calf heifer calved this morning, to AI sire SC Pay Back (flush brother to Pay The Price). Vet called bred heifer safe 30 days back in September (she ran with the bull over the summer since we were out showing and I could not get her bred). I did the math, and 30 days prior would have been...

Genex has two new Simm bulls I am looking at, and I was wondering if anyone had any input on them, good or bad? I am looking for my fall breeding, since we are about done now. I am looking for something calving ease. The first bull is Frosty, who is touted as being the replacement for Iron...

We had a great day at Ash Grove fair today. Total of 87 head showed up, and we ended up with champ Purebred Simm Heifer and Champ Purebred Bull. We had three females that made it to the champion drive, so we had to find help to show one, and she is the one that won! Here she is in her class (on...

Their BSE was just done May 24th, and doc says they are ready for work. Both these boys are calving ease models. I am putting them up for sale this weekend. The first bull is FSSR Shocked Explosion...

I took some pictures this week, in my little time I get to spend with the cattle now! I wanted to share a few. On a side note, since we have lived in Missouri, never in our time have we EVER gone out to grass past the 14th of March. Well, we are STILL feeding hay full time, and likely will not...

Just a vent... I purchased a set of embryos sired by Built Right out of Joy's Shadow, out of the original Joy cow x PowerDrive (full sister to Ebony's Joy). I had a bull calf about 4 years ago that bat crap crazy! We tried everything to halter break this bull calf (started at a week of age) and...

I'm in the market for a new mower, since the old one is a 99 Sears Craftsman. I think it is time to move to the "big boy" toys, and my son is begging for us to buy a zero turn mower. I have a lot of trees to go around, so I can see the benefit of it. We mow several different sections around the...

Been one of those days you wish never happened! I had a Genex membership meeting tonight, which was good. But was not able to check on the cows, so at 9PM I am out there in the dark... found a down line (hotwire) that needed to be fixed. Get the darn thing fixed, and find a sick 2 week old calf...

you get stuck and fall face first in the crap! I had a young calf that was around the hay ring this morning, and then tonight when I checked them again. I decided to get her out of there and back to the barn. I figured out why she seemed stuck there; the mud is THICK and nothing can get through...

I was out heat checking this morning, dang it turned cold quick! Last night, it was 60 before dusk (VERY unusual here), but when the wind died down a cold front moved in and it dropped to 29 in just under an hour! WOW. Now there is a crust on the mud, and it is just down right miserable. I was...