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all the damned Animal Rights Activists when you need them? We have an older cow who has scabby tits and the calf has only been sucking on one (stupid Char x twit) so I rode out and gently eased them in and Hope held the rope while I milked her enough to get all theContinue reading “Where are….”

Had two new ones yesterday morning, just like most morning, only this was out of one cow… twins…had a set a couple years ago and none last year…Fr Tyler came out so after lunch we drove out to look at the babies , which I wouldn’t normally do until I fed or just before dark…foundContinue reading “Calving”

When I went to Deadwood the other day for the Cowboy Poetry Week workshop and show, I drank a couple Cokes and went pretty hard all day and into the night. got home about 11 pm and of course couldn’t just fall asleep so i was tired when the alarm went off at 5.. IContinue reading “Tired..”

Cows calved, wind blew, cows got fed worked on leather…not enough sleep last night..big ol’ full moon out there this evening, beautiful… wish I could get a picture that does it justice…

No calves in the night, two today.. slow but sure…I rode Crackerjack out about noon and tried to kick a few pairs out, but Crackie ain’t got enough patience and neither do I for a colt with no patience, so I left them for later on a broker horse…when I went out later this afternoonContinue reading “Tired”

Beautiful, just beautiful! 😉 Moisture, we take what we can get and just try and be thankful for it… 😉 UPDATE….10:30 am…. took the baby back out to his mama after i put her in the shed, ol’ Pilgrim was pretty jacked up from the cool weather and being separated from the other horses overContinue reading “5:30 am 4/22/13”

coming in….spring weather, supposed to start raining any time and switch to snow this evening and thru’ the night and the wind with gusts up in the 20’s… which ain’t too bad, but this time of the year I don’t trust weather forecasts much… any other time of the year it isn’t such a bigContinue reading “‘Nuther one…”

Cold ol’ wind blowin’ out of the east… I went out at daylight, about 5:30 and found a new baby out of one of Chances old cows, pretty cold, don’t think he’d sucked yet, so loaded him on the floor of the pickup and drove around checking with the heater on high… found another cow,Continue reading “6:30 am 4/20/13”

That ol’ wind whipped up today..finally got up over 30 or so this afternoon and it still felt cold but it is dying down and supposed to be nicer and warmer tomorrow. I put a calving cow in this morning about 6 and she calved fine in the shed, let her out this evening… aContinue reading “Windy and cold…”