Recent content by IluvAltaBeef

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Thank you all very much for your responses. :D RobertMac, some good info to go by, thanks. PC, could I get those names by any chance? I'm interested to see who will be of any help to me. Thanks again all!

There are seminars hosted every year by the Western Forage and Beef group every year that I'd like to go to, and I think there's a Pasture school program that's hosted by the Alberta Ag department, if I'm correct, every summer. I haven't heard of any local forage association having a mentoring...

Yeah I have an option (reason I said maybe) to make my own tub from grainery rings reinforced with thick posts 4' apart, sunk into the earth at the recommended depth (was it 4' or 6' ?) The gate I'd have to think about, how that's going to be built, but it shouldn't be too hard to figger out. As...

The facilities and corrals are already there, they're good as they are, I just want to fence them out of that cursed swamp area. The handling facilities part needs to be changed, I have some ideas that might work that shouldn't be too snazzy: reuse the old alleyway, move some fences around...

That's what my goals are. (Still got a few years to go before these plans are implemented, so right now I'm sounding like the type of person that's all talk and no action. :oops: ) Been learning a lot about cattle working at the local vet clinic in the summer and attending this fall's class...

I don't care for him, one b/c he's a charolais (no offence to you char breeders on here). Second he's too showy in that pic (I'd rather see him in his workin' clothes), not as much masculinity as I'd like to see in a char, he's a bit too short, and the sheath could be improved a bit too. But...

Quackgrass sorta looks like wheat, but is a much closer resemblence to wheatgrass if you've seen wheatgrass before. It's considered a weed in crop production because of the tillering action that enables it to spread out and reproduce daughter plants (also called tillers) all over the feild or...

Here's the article that it seemed that everyone was talking about or referring to. Better than the one that ODNT posted that the mods edited out (thanks btw). http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/livestock/AS-1389%20Low%20Stress%20Cattle%20Working%20Faciilities.pdf A pdf file worth saving...

He does. http://stockmanship.com/index.htm

I took that photo on a trail to a marsh located in the Devonian Botanical Gardens. Thought it was good enough to submit in this contest. :)

It's been awhile. WAS no internet on the farm (but now there is...), been busy working at the vet's, etc. Wrote about some of my experiences there, check it out at The Future Cow-Calf Producer. Got me a new camera too, an S1000fd Fujifilm. Here's a few "teaser" pics: Colourful clover leaf...

JB, here she is: http://www.cochranehumane.ca/html/adopt/dogs.htm you'll have to scroll down a little to see her. Thanks Tay for the suggestions. :) I should've mentioned that I'm not in a real big hurry to get a dog, sure takes a lot more research to find the right one than I thought. I...

I have been looking at the different animal shelters around here and so far I've found a few dogs i've liked. The mutts seem to be a better choice (or the only choice with what i've seen) because there's variability I guess, whereas with purebreeds you know what your getting. So far I've...

I've been talking it over with mom, and been thinking about it for quite a while...we especially need one that can scare the deer away (dang deer's been getting too over-confident about coming into the yard every night to nibble on the plants etc). It's just too much to be putting out...