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Sports/Hunting :: RE: New Gopher Gun

Author: Trinity man
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:38 am (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 7

Now that would kill these wild hogs!!!
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Political Bull :: RE: One simple chart: obama's economic record

Author: Trinity man
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:28 am (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 17

Mike wrote:

Michelle said the economy has made "remarkable progress".

Did she say which way? Because if she meant downwards she was right on.
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Ranch Talk :: RE: How did you meet your better half?

Author: Trinity man
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:18 am (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 10

Met my other half at the college horse barn. I told her she could ride my horse and never got her off of her until the wedding. What dang horses get you into, but I never thought they would get me into this. Feb. 18 will be 16 years and I still can't get her off of my horse. So I got me another horse.
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Ranch Talk :: RE: New generation-new technologies

Author: Haytrucker
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:34 am (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 4

The ranch my brother manages in South Dakota tested all the heifers for PI bvd this year. I believe the cost was under $4.00 a head. I don't know what lab, but I think it was an earnotch deal. If I'm wrong then someone will have to come out of hiding and correct me.

Ranch Talk :: RE: Branding cattle with just 3 letters and 3 numbers

Author: Haytrucker
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:18 am (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 16

As many as you can get roped.

Ranch Talk :: RE: Water is running here.

Author: gcreekrch
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:51 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 2

I like your bull coyote.

We are getting to the point where we could share some snow. Hope we can send some along to those who need it.
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Ranch Talk :: RE: Heifer bulls I bought last Saturday

Author: gcreekrch
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:40 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 10

jillaroo wrote:

Gcreek, did many bulls sell to BC?
Your two look like real nice bulls. I would like to see them when they have their "working clothes" on.

Close to 40. Acclimation from the prairies to here is tough on them the first winter. Most will last 5 to 7 years, we had one bull that was 10 when we canned him.
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Ranch Talk :: RE: Water is running here.

Author: Big Muddy rancher
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:08 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 2

May shake the handle on the toilet if the water keeps running.

Sure is a strange winter. Talked to a old fellow today that figures we are going to have a repeat of '81. Nice and warm from now on and a dry summer. We also had grasshoppers and bad dust storms so I hope he is wrong.
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Ranch Talk :: Water is running here.

Author: coyote
Subject: Water is running here.
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:03 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 2

This looks like the only water that will be running this spring.

This 2yr old bull is by a bull that was born in 1966, and he also had a unique name, Cumberland Gay Lad. He will be in the Who's Your Daddy Bull sale.
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Horses & Dogs :: RE: NZ heading dogs and Huntaways

Author: jillaroo
Subject: Re: NZHD
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:58 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 7

redpale wrote:

are you still looking for a Heading Dog?

always

Ranch Talk :: western Horseman

Author: Big Muddy rancher
Subject: western Horseman
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:52 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 0

I can't remember subscribing to it but i had the last three issues show up in the mail today.
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Everything Else :: RE: Word Association Game

Author: Triangle Bar
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:41 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 18482

Entrepreneurs
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Ranch Talk :: RE: Heifer bulls I bought last Saturday

Author: jillaroo
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:40 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 10

Gcreek, did many bulls sell to BC?
Your two look like real nice bulls. I would like to see them when they have their "working clothes" on.

Ranch Talk :: RE: Heifer bulls I bought last Saturday

Author: gcreekrch
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:17 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 10

WyomingRancher wrote:

They look pretty fancy, and I really like their low birth weights . Since I calve earlier, I could use them on these heifers first, then send them back, legged up and ready to go to work for you .

You do the freight, vet papers and donate a reasonable dividend and you've got a deal! There is one more at Llloydminster that I didn't get photographed and one here if you need 4.

A neat story on the one that I bought last year after the sale. He had been born on pasture before the fall calving heifers were gathered. Mac saw that his mother had calved but couldn't find the baby so turned her back out. It was 2 months before he got back to gather the pair up and take them home. The heifer was accompanied by a very wild bull calf who was minus a tail, likely from a hungry coyote.
Late the following summer, a customer needed a loaner bull to take the place of a lame one for the balance of his breeding season. "Coyote" was taken out of his herdmates mainly because of his size and maturity and passed a semen test at 11 months old.
It was later than planned before he was returned and he wasn't in sale condition by January so was placed in a pen of bulls that were available by private treaty. We bought a load of pairs last spring and needed 2 more bulls so Coyote became ours for $2700. He didn't have a recorded BW but his lineage denoted him as a heifer breeding prospect. We used him on cows last year.
The punchline to the story was his full brother was in this year's sale with a 71 lb BW and over 700 WW. I believe he was the high selling Black Angus at $7800.
A maternal brother to another bull we bought at last year's sale for $3500 was popular this year. Mac announced that he was my favourite bull in the sale (which he was) and he sold to a Hutterite Colony for $6400. The bull we own is the thicker of the pair.
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Ranch Talk :: RE: 7410 John Deere

Author: Big Muddy rancher
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:10 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 4

Got a 7400 and a 7420. I like the 7400 better but the 7420 is pretty nice.
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