Recent content by C Thompson

If you are serious about ranching you should look for a place that you won't need to feed hay. you could buy a pretty nice place for about half your money that would run quite a few stockers and still have the other half to invest in blue chip stocks. If you are addicted to cows and need to go...

This is usually something that I should leave alone because and especially on some topics like this only some of us can have opinions and only then if they match those of the stronger personalities in the group. I mean no offence when I give an opinion and hope it is taken in a way that is just...

Hey SFL, If you are interested in optomizing production on your cattle and grass look up Jaime Elizondo he is an exceptional manager and consultant and is running cattle without feeding hay year around in your state. If you can't find him on Google Chris Stelzer on agricultural insights will...

I'm with Big Swede and Eat Beef on this one. Don't expect any calves here before April 15th at the earliest. Recently found out cows can not only actually calve on their own if we select heifer type calving ease bulls and let it happen on dry warm ground covered in grass but we can sleep all...

We as producers have always been price takers when we sell into the commodity market. A very few of us have been able to find niche markets and sell direct but that isn't most of us and for those that do it likely isn't their whole crop. If our only hope for profit is when the market is this...

How come so cold Gcreek? Only minus 18 celcuis or zero farenheight here but expecting some of your weather before it is over. Set out a bunch of bales for the next week today. cows are full. shouldn't have to start tractor for 6 days but will have to quad out to chop ice in tire tank when sun...

So far Soapweed has first place for the best answer. I liked the helpful comment about not making them out of metal so the slimey guys don't freeze down. Just an observation from a recovering winter calver.

Just checking in to see how you all are getting along. Pleased to see all the love and good cheer that this festive season brings out in neighbors and friends. I think I'll check out a few of the more positive posts.

Hey there R A, Back in the 70s when I first went to Gcreekrch territory they all were putting it up loose and mostly with horses. Some were cutting with 6 foot three point hitch mowers on 35 horsepower tractors but the rest was done with real horsepower and pitchforks and that took all summer...

Congratulations to the both of you. 19 for Karen and I on the 23rd. Funny how the older and slower we get the faster the time flies by. Hope you get good weather for haying. Rain has most stalled out around here.

I remember this thread a while back. Brinkman is the name but get the one with the chord coming out of it that plugs into a cigarette lighter recepticle then it is only dependant on the electrical system in whatever vehicle you are running. Ours is probably 20 years old and only had to ghange...

PowerFlex Fence sells Spinning Jenny's for not much over $100.00 that are used for rolling out large coils of 12 guage high tensile wire and they can also be used to roll the same wire up again. Inside the jenny in two places there is a small piece of square tubing that you can thread a long...

Hello Vic, 30 calves per day sounds like lots of cattle calving. Are the total number of cows high or are these synchronized? Is this just the odd one out of many meaning that percentage wise is it that significant? Are these heifers, cows, both? Don't have any opinion but am curious on these...

quote="jodywy"]I didn't see any $4800 bull in the pics I looked at Good thing you didn't of some might have sold for $4900.

Have had my Muck boots for two full years now and they outlasted the Bogs I had first. They are also less slippery on ice than the bogs were. My winter isn't quite as long as Gcreekrch's but we are neighbors. I just patched my Mucks about two weeks ago and have been in deep water with them since...