hockey playin for me, tomorow

[cowhunter]

We gettin a good soakin rain tonight. I get to play what we call drag man in the mornin. I hook to a pasture drag and spred all the cow hockey while its soft after a good soakin. That drag will also pull up some thisel were plagued with here in fla. Its a great sport, hockey. Maybe somebody will won't to stop and fight.

[cowhunter]

Won't get to go this mornin. My baby girls started runnin a fever last night. I let her and her mama have the bed while I camped on the couch. There takin that f cat testin this week. But she can make it up. If she breaks that fever me and her will play hockey. She loves to drive and its still rainin and should all day.

[efb]

I need to do the same, although I don't really know if there is a lot of benefit to it or just cosmetic.

[cowhunter]

I think it helps a lot. My drags kind of scarify the grass and break up them pies that would just lay there if u didn't spred them. I pull mine with my truck in my improved pastures and a tractor on the pond. I kind of enjoy it but its stormin bad here with lightin strikein bad. I'm hunckered down.

[Blkbuckaroo]

Been dragging my pastures last couple days,helps break down the manure and make it available as nutients for the soil,does some thatching of decadent grass,as we plant using a range land drill we don't want to be running the drill over manure piles.My wife would like to run a chicken tractor after the cows to break down the manure and fertalize the ground,which is a good idea,just have to move the tractor once a day,but then i can't drive my tractor around at the end of the day with my favorite brew.Alot of guys might say let the dung beetles do the work,but have'nt found that to be the case.

[cowhunter]

Had my truck full of gas yesterday for pasture dragin but my boy is courtin a barrel racein, breakaway ropein polebender. And sure perty to. So he brung it home with half a tank. His trucks in the shop. I was goin to take our little ranger ranch run about but the heater don't work and I'd of froze in this 60 degree weather. I got some picks comin. My pet little hookin gal found a bull calf. Only one. He's healthy and she evev give me a little time lookin him over before she took to me. While I was dragin, I seen a cow leave off. I later found her with a white and red pided bull calf. Then I found a cow with some afterbirth hangin out but no calf. I hunted the calf for a hour but she might have it hid. These scrub cattle are bad to do that and graze a couple hundred yards off. I'll check her after church tomorrow.

[Big Muddy rancher]

Your pictures are coming but a little slow. The bulk uploader on photobucket is acting up needing Java which I thought I had so using the old uploader.

[Big Muddy rancher]

[cowhunter]

First pic is a before of the hockey and the thisal. It don't show the thisal good but its thick. I was sprayin it with a hand sprayer last fall but got to ill. Ilet it get away from me and some seeded out. I aint wonted my boy in that spray so it got left undone. The second pic is a after. The drag works well on the thisal. Do yall have it up north? The 3d is little hookin gal before she put me in the truck. Lol. She did let me hike his leg and see his little sack. I wish it was a heifer. The last is the cow that left off while I was dragin. Another bull calf. They weight about 40lbs. They spit them out and there up quick as a dear. I know this part of my cattle operation is entirely different than everybody elses on here. But I asure u I'm just as proud of mine as yall are of yourn. I'm fixin to by about a hundred head of poor cows off the market and keep them 90 or so days then resell them bred and fat. There cheap and looks like the market's goin to hold.

[Blkbuckaroo]

Looks like you have some serious dragging to do.

[cowhunter]

I got about 100 acers of high pasture left. Next year, I'm goin to rig up a little broudcast seeder that will hook to a reece hitch and after the cattle get the high pastures slicked off. I"ll get them fertilized and then plant rye grass while dragin. Get a good stand then put the cows on and off them.