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The calves have been weaned for almost a month now. Weaning was uneventful, other than a few calves escaping into the front yard. We have selected 9 heifers to retain from this spring's calf crop, most of which, are sired by BB Backbone's General. There are a few others that are AI sired that we...

It has been a while since I have posted on these boards. I graduated from the Texas A&M Veterinary School in May of this year and have been working in north Texas as a mixed-animal veterinarian for the past few months. In all honesty, there has been a bit of a learning curve, but I really am...

This spring's calving went without a hitch. Ended up with 19 heifer calves and 18 bulls. The AI calves were born first, followed by the natural service calves sired by BB Backbone's General. I have not done the math, but our average birth weight was heavier across the board this year. Not a bad...

Knock on wood, it has been a relatively mild winter here so far. We have gotten several slow, steady rains over the last few months. Not enough to fill the ponds, but enough to saturate the ground and get some winter grass growing. Our spring calves are due to start hitting the ground in 6 weeks...

It has been a while since I have posted on here. It has been dry, but we have been fortunate that the cows have stayed in such great shape. We have retained the majority of our heifers from the last few calf crops and are finally reaching our carrying capacity after raising Murray Greys for the...

I hope everyone is doing well. Things have been relatively steady here for the last few weeks. We wrapped up our AI season in early June, turned out the bull, and are in the midst of hauling hay out of the river bottoms. The calves are developing really nicely, and I think we are going to be...

It has been a while since I have posted here, but all is well. I am wrapping up my 3rd year of veterinary school at Texas A&M, and am starting my clinical rotations a week from today. Back home, we had been quite dry throughout the winter and into the early parts of spring, but with a few...

Well, the very first cow, WR Ruby, that I bought when I was 12 years old will be going to the sale barn at the end of the week. She has been a good one for us. She was born in the fall of 2008 in Missouri, and I purchased her after she had her first calf back in 2011. She has not missed a beat...

Weaning is fast approaching for our spring calves. The majority of them were born in mid-March, so they are right at 7 months of age. Our AI sired calves were born earlier in the year and are 8 months old. The cows are still in very good shape, but I am sure that they will be happy to be rid of...

We have had a very wet spring here, and the calves are coming along nicely. We plan to turn out the bulls on June 1st, and have been AIing cows for the past week. Some of the Murray Grey sires that we are breeding to include Cadella Park Golden Boy, Victory Power Play, Ballee Thumbs Up, and...

Today was supposed to be the official start to the calving season, but with the snow, ice, and negative temperatures for the first time that I can recall this past week, we already have four calves on the ground. So far, it looks like none of them have frostbitten ears or tails, but it was...

This is a bull that we are planning to use quite heavily over the next few breeding seasons. He is a rising 6 year old that is a son of Monterey Marshall, an Australian Murray Grey bull that is continuing to impress us. We sold this bull, BB Backbone's General, as a yearling back in 2016, but...

About six more weeks left before we wean our spring calves. This calf crop is by far the best that we have raised to date. We have picked out the replacement heifers of the group, and will be selecting five or six of the bull calves to grow out/ develop until they are sold as 2 year olds. The...

Summer has hit in full swing here. We have yet to have a 100 degree day, but hay has been cut and baled, we turned out bulls almost a month ago, and the calves are growing well. This calf crop has been one of our best, if not the best, that we have had to date. It will be difficult to sort out...

We will be turning out the bulls in a handful of weeks, and they have really been packing on the pounds on the spring grass. Earlier last week, we sorted off 26 head that we will be AIing on a natural heat, and the remainder of the herd will be bred by either BB Uncle Tony or BB Backbone's...

We had a bit of a rough start to our calving season this year. We had a 90+ lb bull calf born out of one of our smaller heifers that had to be pulled, and another born dead that was a breach birth. With that being said, things have gotten progressively better since then. We have 9 heifer calves...

Our first calves sired by BB Backbone's General are hitting the ground right now. We have had six heifers and 3 bulls so far, and we are really liking them. The heifers have averaged 69.7 lbs and the bulls have averaged 68.3 lbs, all born unassisted out of first calf heifers. Most of these...

We were lucky enough to get 4 inches of rain last week to fill the ponds up a bit and get the grass growing again. Despite the heat, all of the cows and calves are holding up really well. By this time last year, we were creep feeding the calves to give them a little extra protein, but we have...

Our spring calves are just now hitting 5 months old. As a group, we are very happy with them. The majority of the calves are sired by Tony this year, but we do have about a dozen that are sired by OK Boss II. Although they are still young, we have a fairly good idea of which heifers we will be...

After being in with the cows for 60 days, we pulled the bulls out last week. We had split the herd into three breeding groups. I am anticipating a much tighter calving season this next spring, as we did not see anything come back into heat after the first 35 days of the breeding season. These...