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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1647362" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>We are all great! Two kids out of the nest now, so life have changed quiet a bit. Our middle daughter took off to college to get a nursing degree, she comes home on weekends but I sure miss her most days. She was the work horse in the family. She did most of the breeding for us, so this fall when we start back at AI'ing everything she will REALLY be missed! </p><p>We are in a serious drought, and it is very regionally located, meaning our area is the SW corner is worse than the rest of the state. We normally stockpile fescue, and stay on grass until Christmas time, then feed hay through March when the grass comes back. We took a very small cutting the first of July (rain had already shut off, so not a lot of grass growth), and since then have only received 3 tenths of an inch of rain on our place. We typically get 8 inches a month. I have never seen it so dry and dead, especially for fall. Of course, no stockpiling this year, and we have been on hay since the end of September. Now, trying to find hay is not difficult, but getting it hauled in to the place IS difficult. So that is our current dilemma. I'll attach pictures of some of our ponds. Never seen them dried up (and look at the fields around them - brown and dead), and good thing we have well water at both places so we do not have to haul water!</p><p>Lots of new babies on the ground, and the cattle are healthy, so that is a blessing. I know by Christmas we are ALL going to be tired of feeding hay!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1647362, member: 18809"] We are all great! Two kids out of the nest now, so life have changed quiet a bit. Our middle daughter took off to college to get a nursing degree, she comes home on weekends but I sure miss her most days. She was the work horse in the family. She did most of the breeding for us, so this fall when we start back at AI'ing everything she will REALLY be missed! We are in a serious drought, and it is very regionally located, meaning our area is the SW corner is worse than the rest of the state. We normally stockpile fescue, and stay on grass until Christmas time, then feed hay through March when the grass comes back. We took a very small cutting the first of July (rain had already shut off, so not a lot of grass growth), and since then have only received 3 tenths of an inch of rain on our place. We typically get 8 inches a month. I have never seen it so dry and dead, especially for fall. Of course, no stockpiling this year, and we have been on hay since the end of September. Now, trying to find hay is not difficult, but getting it hauled in to the place IS difficult. So that is our current dilemma. I'll attach pictures of some of our ponds. Never seen them dried up (and look at the fields around them - brown and dead), and good thing we have well water at both places so we do not have to haul water! Lots of new babies on the ground, and the cattle are healthy, so that is a blessing. I know by Christmas we are ALL going to be tired of feeding hay! [/QUOTE]
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