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DiamondSCattleCo
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
frenchie wrote:
We got over a foot.Poor cows pretty unhappy this morning. Laughing


Laughing I've been feeding out on pasture. Last night when I fired up the tractor to feed, all of my critters were standing in the corrals, looking hopeful. They just weren't all that impressed to watch the tractor beat it back out to the pasture with the feed again Laughing

Except my shorthorns, of course. They were all out in the middle of the pasture, heads buried in the snow, looking for that last blade of grass they'd been saving.

Silver wrote:
And when they're good I give 'em a little spruce needles, just for good measure.


Laughing Laughing I went looking for some pictures of your area, but didn't have much luck. Seriously though, you have good pasture/hay land in your area, or do you have to truck stuff in? Pardon my ignorance, but I've rarely been west of here, just south.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DiamondSCattleCo wrote:
frenchie wrote:
We got over a foot.Poor cows pretty unhappy this morning. Laughing




Except my shorthorns, of course. They were all out in the middle of the pasture, heads buried in the snow, looking for that last blade of grass they'd been saving.

Rod


Yeh them shorthorns do ok in this country, If you get the right type of cow.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yeh them shorthorns do ok in this country, If you get the right type of cow.


<chuckle> The Shorthorns came in today. Another 10 inches of snow today for 18 total. It can quit just about anytime now....
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DiamondS, I suppose I am biased but I doubt there is a place in north america that is any better suited to cattle. Not to say that other places might not be as good, but I do believe there is none better.
It's kind of curious. if you were to drive up to here from the south on any given fall, odds are you will meet truck after truck hauling hay south, especially to BC's interior.




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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are those Angus Bears? Wink Cowboy
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Big Muddy rancher wrote:
Are those Angus Bears? Wink Cowboy


CAB Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dang. Thats nice country. I had no idea that the land was that fertile 8 hours north of Edmonton. You get more than a 1/2 hour north of me, and you're into muskegs and heavy forest. Another 3 hours and you get lakes and shield country.

But I'm a little partial to where I hang my hat Smile 4 and 5 ton/acre alfalfa is easy to get used to on land that sells for 30-40K/quarter. Not 10 years ago, you could get your choice of land for $15k - $18K/quarter. Wish I'd been around then Smile

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You have a beautiful country silver, and it hasn't looked that good around here for years. But I do have to disagree with you. The best place for running cattle must be somewhere where it rains, and the feed no hay.

I can dream can't I? Wink

Oh yeah, and where it doesn't get to be 60 below. You guys are tough!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DiamondSCattleCo wrote:
Dang. Thats nice country. I had no idea that the land was that fertile 8 hours north of Edmonton. You get more than a 1/2 hour north of me, and you're into muskegs and heavy forest. Another 3 hours and you get lakes and shield country.

But I'm a little partial to where I hang my hat Smile 4 and 5 ton/acre alfalfa is easy to get used to on land that sells for 30-40K/quarter. Not 10 years ago, you could get your choice of land for $15k - $18K/quarter. Wish I'd been around then Smile

Rod


I hear you about the land prices, sounds about the same here, although the last year or two I think they have gone up some more. Too much oil money around here. Sounds like your hay crops are similar to ours, but we are lucky to get a second cut. If we fertilize and the moisture is right we get second cut, but we have enough land we allways (touch wood) get enough feed with leftovers.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I gotta get up in that neck of the woods on a snoop sometime.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I gotta get up in that neck of the woods on a snoop sometime.


Where I'm at? Or Silver?

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the real jake wrote:
You have a beautiful country silver, and it hasn't looked that good around here for years. But I do have to disagree with you. The best place for running cattle must be somewhere where it rains, and the feed no hay.

I can dream can't I? Wink

Oh yeah, and where it doesn't get to be 60 below. You guys are tough!


lol, you might be right. But I would way sooner deal with cold than heat. I figger folks gotta be way tougher than me to live in country where it regularly gets 100 degrees F or more. Like Grandpa allways said... "you can allways put more clothes on, but there's only so much to take off."
Now, to get away without putting up hay.... that would be a treat.
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