Recent content by C-J

Hahahahah.... Haven't been in long enough to know the back story on the goats, but keep it coming - best chuckle I've had in days! I'm a member of the association but didn't get anything about the field day. Would've been a good excuse to get out of the fog down here!

Boy that's a good poem and story. I feel a one with you cause just yesterday I gave my bride a stock trailer. . . Though she saw right through the motivation - I escaped about a thousand tax dollars needed to register it under my name at the full purchase price. . .

This has been real educational. I don't trust EPD's a whole lot myself and it's good to hear your opinions. I had a bit to eat just last week with a well respected former rancher who's now a widely read writer and he's not a big fan of them either. I'd have to say that WB's approach is pretty...

Think you need to publish them Mustang!

Man! That's cool? Where is that Mustang? We run north of Delta almost up to the Pony Express road (east of Keg Mountain). Looks like the country north of there. There's a matched pair of light Palomino's that are seen pretty often (only together) in summer on our north fence. Always makes...

RSL makes some great points. The tags and readers I worked with could read from big distances, but the have a focal point so with experience you can actually focus them so you aren't reading every calf in an alley. To be honest, you don't need a big read range in an single file alley unless...

Angus 62 is right, by the way, all feedyards cut the ranch tags out of the calves at processing. The only exception is program cattle where there is documentation attached to the tag like vaccinations. The reason is always "we've got no reason to keep it in. We'll put our colored lot tag in...

I'm sorry to drop the ball here! It's just that I'm apparently a dolt! I keep seeing this topic come up and it looks like the reply to my post was the last one....then I saw the page 2 icon at the bottom of page 1 and...duh! Maybe I can answer the questions that Traveler asked. Speed: We...

I worked in both Canada and here in the States on this issue. Canada is way ahead of us on this because they've been at it for so long. Unfortunately the CCIA has botched so much of it that it's a mess in many ways. Here the government is slowly building infrastructure (some of which will be...

My wife has them on her SUV... Stinking things always, as in consistently, register low tire pressures on basically every tire no matter whether you've just checked them or not. So the dash light's always on, even if she's just left the tire dealer. Hurray for technology!

Best part of the gigglers is that I'm the one usually making them giggle!

Ya'll must've been happily exhausted with all those kids around! Tough having favorite kids gone a long ways from you, even when they're clearly off doing things they love and are so good at - never sewn so I can't imagine what that took, but wow. If this ranching thing ever gets old, just...

Howdy, I'm new here, but follow the boards a fair bit. Thought I'd chime in here since I've got a little background in the nutrition side especially with range situations. The single most important thing we can provide cattle is protein. It's been proven, both in university studies and from...