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Read this book the other day. I picture it a taking place pretty much right on @gcreekrch place. Have you read it Gcreek?

Mayhem to start: Getting my ducks in a row: The ducks are in a row, albeit a crooked one.

21 days in to calving and things are slowing down which I don’t mind since the temperatures have dropped a bit. 69% complete. Looking forward to spring temps and sleeping through the night.

Had heard about atresia ani before, but had never seen it until we had one born with it a couple of days ago. When the calf was born I saw that she only had a very short deformed tail that was curled and stiff. I immediately looked for an anus and thought I saw one but it was an illusion. I...

Twins are still coming at a brisk rate. Nine sets so far, all alive. Three cows are raising a full set, two were used for graft jobs, 3 have been sold and one is being fed and held in reserve for the next available opening.

Hopefully they keep their tails down for awhile.

This was at the clinic I prefer to use. I’m not sure but I think on of the heads has an underbite: ‼️INTERESTING CASE‼️ This two-headed calf, yes TWO headed calf was delivered via C-section today by Dr. Mike. They were having trouble pulling the calf so opted for C-section and were very...

Got a bit of a shock today. I have a coupler leaking on a skid steer attachment, a Parker flat faced male coupler. Called about an o-ring (actually figured I'd get a handful to have around), it took them awhile to find one, and even they were shocked at the $17 price tag. I'm thinking there has...

I found this interesting table for estimating bale density / DM. I have always struggled to compare baleage bales to dry hay. If I figure my bales on the second highest density rating I’m feeding my cows 27 lbs of dry matter per day. And about 5 lbs of that is ripgut. And since it warmed up they...

Tracks or tires? Considering a skid steer for the ranch. Maybe. Would eventually use it with a brush cutter for fence lines, driving posts, loading bales into the silage wrapper, cleaning pens, some small snow removal etc. I like tracks so I’m leaning that way. I figure they are more expensive...

Well, I don’t think this is a surprise to anyone with any sense, but nice to see some positive press. https://ca.style.yahoo.com/don-t-meat-better-health-050000322.html

Rather than bog down another thread I thought I’d start a new one as I find the topic interesting. I found this on premptig in BC: Pre-emption was a method of acquiring provincial Crown land by claiming it for settlement and agricultural purposes. Although it was possible to pre-empt land and...

Hey Ken, how are you making out? Looks bad down there on the news.

Water buggies came in, looking forward to using these on pasture next grazing season. Would like to have a few more but they’re pretty spendy.

I realize it’s not in the outback Australia land train league, but it always amazes me how many cattle disappear into one of these things. Put 64,000 lbs of cows on this guy this afternoon and he had room for plenty more.

@TCRanch you’re up. After that foot operation you are now the resident surgeon. Looks like there is a puncture wound there. Im wondering if there is a stick left inside. I’m not usually afraid of performing an operation but this is getting close to some critical infrastructure. If TC won’t...

Youngest Daughter came home from university, son happened to not be working, oldest daughter couldn’t make it but her husband did. Great meal, great visit. Happy Thanksgiving

Helped the neighbours test today. Beautiful weather. Ran them through at a relaxed 80-90 per hour.

I asked my darling wife for Cheezies. She brought home Cheetos. I’m gonna eat ‘em, but they are a third rate imposter that doesn’t hold a candle to the real deal. Why do people buy these things? Just sayin’

They started selling at 9:00 yesterday morning (September 19) and it looks like they finished about 8:00 this morning (20th). They sold non stop for 23 hours, about 4000 head. I waited in line over two hours to drop my little group of yearling heifers off on Monday afternoon. Group of 4 weighed...