Recent content by Big Muddy rancher

I started watching Wild ,Wild Country last night it's a bit slow moving for a guy that' tired from calving and I fell asleep. I don't really remember hearing about it but I don't suppose t quite made the news like Jones town, the Freeman standoff n Montana was closer and I was buying bulls out...

Maybe you should suggest that about the assisted living for retired ranchers, some could probably impart some wisdom for the visiting youth as well

What does t say on the bottle? I think it's pretty stable stuff

I use the Green nipple from Wadsworth MFG, They are 100% better than the red ones that come on the bottles for calves starting on to them.

My Mom always said the wind picked up speed coming down the hills.

Depends what your wanting him to do. He looks like a calving ease bull with below average performance.

Great story with a happy ending

I spoke to soon yesterday. After an nice soaking rai it cleared off and the wind blew hard until evening, Nice out today,

We got a very welcome inch of rain over night. Surprisingly not windy

Did you keep the hunting privilege for yourself? even if you don't plan on shooting something you could still go there for quiet time.

They don't show up on my computer, How do they compare with breed averages? every breed has different averages so EPD's don't compare across breeds just within the breed

Guess every situation is different, I will be 70 this summer and plan to keep ranching for a while yet, I would like to slow down a bit voluntarily not not just because of age, I have a daughter and son that work with me o that is incentive to carry on. If they weren't here and I had to rely on...

Hope it's not BVD, No cure

We ran yearling for years so never were in a brand group. They don't seem to have trouble getting a crew. My son goes and helps at some but I go help the fall gathers as if it's cold they can be short handed or the kids are in school. We get some extra riders for fall gather, a couple of the...

My daughter and I are set up in the barn off our bug tub set up. The two of us do close to 400 calves a year over the table. Last year we had 100 of them at my sons so he helped us do them. I like working in the barn, that long day in the sun was work.