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Yes, the hind legs. I think it must just be bad luck. Possible the calves could have been stepped on perhaps when they were born. They never bawled like they were in pain though :???:

Hi all--been a long while since posting on here! Busy on the ranch and with homeschooling our 5 1/2 year old son :-) I check back in often and read all you have been up to. Quick question: we are in the midst of calving and have had 2 calves born in which their backends won't work; at all...

Faster Horses, our dog Tator is a mix breed...he has Black Mouth Cur, probably some Border Collie, and who knows what else! He is a heck of a dog; sneaks up on a cow, heels like crazy, and will stand down a cow or bull no matter what it takes. Best cow dog that we have had since I've been...

Been a long while since I've posted pics of our ranching life here in western WY; we had a drought breaking summer last summer. 3 inches of rain right in the middle of haying followed by 3 1/2 inches of rain a few days after we finished up haying! Calves did well on the forest last summer and we...

Soap, his name is Marvin Paulson--he's a tough old Norweigan :-) He says his secret to a long life is his daily 5pm martinis. ;-)

My great uncle who turns 100 in a few days was showing my folks some of his photo albums from when he worked for a surveying crew for the US government back in 1936. He surveyed elevations on Beartooth Pass (near Red Lodge, MT), around Cody, WY, various other locaations in Wyoming and then his...

Did you get anything resolved thru the water commissioner Jody? We are just starting to have water issues over the mts on our creek---and all from neighboring ranches selling and subdividing and new folks being uneducated on water and their water rights. They got sold on buying a chunk of land...

Question: no one uses these around our parts so this is a whole new concept to me. Do these nose rings hurt the calves nose when they go to nurse or does it hurt the cows udder when the calf nurses? Reason I'm asking is by no means would I want a cow to learn how to kick at her calf when it goes...

Soap, the 67 brand is still Miller land and livestock's brand from west of Big Piney, WY...south of my place about 40 miles. My husbands aunt is one of Bob Millers daughters. Her brother Mike runs the home place with beef cattle and he raises some pretty nice quarter horses right now. They...

We have been having our own issue with WWS...on our forest grazing allotment since Jan. We got our EIS signed and all set to go with no changes to our grazing permit. We have been a model permittee for years. Then on this past Christmas Eve Ratner met with our Forest Service District Ranger, had...

One other thing...it's hard to get younger folks to want to come out and wrestle. In the past we have had the high school FFA teacher come out with some of his students...we live near a small community and it was great. As the teacher said he likes for his students to be able to help out in the...

I'm sure Jody can help you on most of this...around here they just started lambing out on the range a few weeks ago just as shearing got done. We have tough spring weather here in western WY too but these guys with sheep on the range got it figured our pretty well. If you are on Facebook look up...

We just had our big branding last weekend...we did 450 calves in 3 hours including gathering time for two herds. We had 35 people on horse back, at least 8 sets of wrestlers, 2 nut cutters, 2 ear markers, 4 vaccinators, 4 branders, 2 gals doctoring anything sick, and numerous others filling in...

Great advice from you both---thanks! Hard to not count our chickens before they hatch with the way the market is going :D

Still calving away but already thinking about marketing/selling our calves. We have sold thru Northern Livestock Video Auction the past 4 years and will again this year. My question is should we get in the early sale (3rd week in June) or stick with the mid July sale? We have always done the...