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  1. Hippie Rancher

    How high off the ground do you all hang gates?

    Mr. Fence...is there a standard or standards?
  2. Hippie Rancher

    per something in Silvers airplane thread - what folklore "signs" of rain do you know?

    2 common around here is rain before San Juan's Day (June 24) either no more rain until July 15, bad monsoon altogether, or bad year (yikes) and the other is when the harvester ants make a tall mound it will be a good rain. the San Juan's no more until the 15 was pretty accurate this year...
  3. Hippie Rancher

    have y'all seen this one?

  4. Hippie Rancher

    what should I pay a friend with a goosneck to haul 10 steers to the sale?

    he won't give me a price. total trip for him is ~ 25 miles empty with 5 of that dirt road (some fairly rough, most graded) 20 miles loaded. all but the 5 is on interstate.
  5. Hippie Rancher

    argh! can someone help with electrolyte instructions?

    grabbed some electrolytes at the feed store without looking close and of course baby girl was a little loose this morning so thought I would give this for evening feed but I can't figure out what I bought. durvet vitamins and electrolytes. intructions for water additive seem to indicate a half...
  6. Hippie Rancher

    need to make up a bottle for tonight

    thought I had a bag of replacer in the freezer but apparently not. I have a couple gallons of 2% in the fridge and a pint of heavy whipping cream. little heifer, maybe a week or 2 weeks old, 50 -60 lbs? no navel but I unloaded her out of my car OK (not too heavy), cops loaded her. hit on...
  7. Hippie Rancher

    sent a small mixed load of "scraps" last week

    a cow, 2 heifers, 7 steers of mixed ages/weights. best net was 2 year old red steer, cow brought .88/lb, best lb price was 1.70/lb on a 480 lb steer.
  8. Hippie Rancher

    paintball marking gun

    been thinking about this for ages and may have even asked long ago but anybody use a paintball gun to mark animals? we have too many solid blacks and reds these days. a few are of a different brand than the ranch brand. takes me a while to pair things when they are penned but when working and...
  9. Hippie Rancher

    kind of interesting story on supply chain issues affecting a dairy

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/03/maine-houlton-chocolate-milk/
  10. Hippie Rancher

    Before horses, ass hybrids were bred for warfare

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/01/before-horses-ass-hybrids-were-bred-for-warfare/142567 "The 4,500-year-old iconography and texts from Mesopotamia show that the elite used equids for travel and warfare; however, the nature of these animals remained mysterious. A team from the Institut...
  11. Hippie Rancher

    Baxter Black is retiring for health reasons.

    there was a thread on FB, my son sent me a screen capture. it said he was in hospice but I think it got edited. either way this is sad news. he has been living nearby for a number of years. he did a fundraiser for a ranching group I was involved with a long time ago. will always remember...
  12. Hippie Rancher

    lots of cows going to the sale around here

    no rain since July. I sent a couple trailer loads last week and the sale went to 4 in the morning. they announced this week they will go two days until the dumping tapers off. prices down about 20% from last year, which is I suppose the kind of news where you think "could be worse" but not much!
  13. Hippie Rancher

    anybody try elastomeric roof coating for a leaky trough?

    can't find good epoxy paint anywhere nearby. :help:
  14. Hippie Rancher

    one steer shipped today, not very productive

    he was kinda big, so I needed an old 4x4 instead of a horse or three he's been avoiding humans for a while. heck, he was a yearling when he was branded. in 2015 :hide:
  15. Hippie Rancher

    question about ads

    I finally had to put an adblock on this site because the ads were driving me crazy. I would rather donate real money directly than have to look at ads. any way to do that?
  16. Hippie Rancher

    always the best in the bunch

    branding some big calves in the chute yesterday. the biggest, soggiest bull sat down like a dog and we could not get him up. had to drag him out with a horse and he never did get feeling back into his hind legs. not sure what happened, maybe he hit his head going in? nice calf, hate when it...
  17. Hippie Rancher

    missing post?

    pretty sure I replied to this - http://www.cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=121247 yesterday, but it isn't there now.
  18. Hippie Rancher

    anybody have recommendations for weatherproof resettable padlocks?

    :devil2: gave up on my remote electric gate project. $400 for a camera plus repairs to the electronics seems foolish.
  19. Hippie Rancher

    Dead South

    really good punk bluegrass out of Canada. LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
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