Recent content by Nesikep

He posted about selling a bunch of his cows off, @Bcranchgirl might have an opportunity I'm in Lillooet BC, but i'm too small potatoes to hire anyone

Last week was weaning time here.. all the mommas know they can finally get rid of those suckers! Sure, they bawl a little bit, but something tells me they really don't mind all that much either

Going back to the corrals for weaning time

I have a lot less fence crawlers on my HT smoothwire fences than on my barbed.. my cows don't care at all about the barbs, extra scratching power is good apparently. The HT on the other hand is so darned tight it just feel solid, they don't put their heads through, and all the staples stay in...

I love all these pictures too.. I'm even more happy I don't have to have them in MY back yard though!

The rest of my year didn't go a whole lot better.. Lost another cow in the summer to what I'm chalking up to be Lyme disease... Oh I got better than 100% calf crop at the expense of cows... Hopefully I've had my share this for a while.

That one was certainly determined to die.. unfortunate.. I lost 1 calf in the last 6 years, C section that took FOREVER for the vet to get here.. timely arrival would have certainly been a different outcome.. Lost a cow 6 weeks ago.. had to be my best cow of course.. still pizzed about it.

For fighting, I found shorthorns were terrible... ALWAYS fights breaking out over nothing.. YOU ATE THE LEAF I WANTED!.. The Gelbvieh seem to fight less, they don't care if they get pushed around, they'll just stand there and take it, keeping their head in the feed bunk

I had the opposite problem... the Angus influence made them terribly hard on fences, the Gelbvieh behave themselves... Same experience with Herfs though.

here's why I can't have anything nice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tid3iCFRJ8

Always love hearing what other people are doing and how it works out. We started off with a bunch of HORRIBLE mutts that had problems galore.. though now after 25 years or so I think the bloodlines of all the worst offenders has been taken care of and I can start focusing on some of the...

Newsflash, Agriculture provides 100% of the food on the table.. Some people just don't seem to get that. They also don't seem to get the fact that water that is used doesn't vanish, it comes back down as rain somewhere to be used again.

As always, nice pictures, every one of them!

I was about to mention Kosher.. We looked into it 20 years ago, and in fact it's pretty much just added ritual, and for as much as we cared, meant nothing about how the animal was raised, only the slaughter mattered.

What was the joke?