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    Hi Again Everyone!

    :D I have been in the Fly. I am selling a ton of equipment this year. The Money is good but free time has been nearly nill. That and a buddy of mine wanted me to buy him calves. We found some good grazing arrangements, so I filled his card up in April and May.....I thought for sure that the...
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    Did ya All March Yesterday?

    We had a couple of High School Boys over working for us clearing out brush, ect. yesterday. If the goal of the Demonstrations was to show what it would be like without them, well it didn't all go how they'd like. The kids said there were fewer kids in class. Hmmmm...without those...
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    Cattle On Grass - Agman

    Agman, I see the COF as running 7-8% above last year. I read where a lot of it is due to the lack of winter grazing in the Oklahoma/Texas area this winter. I thought it would be interesting to compare a Cattle on Grass number to the prior year for Feb, March and April. Any idea what the...
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    Size Matters

    thot that would get your attention... Topic of Cow size has had me thinking. My dad talks about they used to breed hiefers as 2 year olds to calve at 3. I don't think that is an option anymore. However, I do think it is interesting...I started feeding my hiefers to make sure they were mature...
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    Picking Hiefers

    Just read thru the Kit Pharo thread. A lot of it was what happens to your cows with these bulls.... Well, I pick my heifers entirely on the cows. I have some Cows that I will kepp a Hiefer out of every time. Reason is that every calf they have turns out to be very impressive. They breed back...
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    Hello again

    I have een pretty busy and then about last Wednesday I started having headaches. At first, I would take some Ibuproohen and it would go away. About last Friday, the 4 Ibuprophen stopped having any affect. Was that way through the weekend. It was at the base of my skull on the left side. I don't...
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    Friends of ours

    A couple that are good friends of ours are going thru some emotionally tough times right now. They have one child, Max (We are his Godparents BTW), but have been going to Doctors and can't have anymore. They are really broke up over it. Here's the rub. My wife and I most likely won't ever have...
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    Mornin Nicky

    Seems we are both up this morning. We found some pasture in a wet area that hasn't had cows on it in several years. Worked some and moved them yesterday. Slept good last nite, but up at 4:30 this AM. Forgot what it was like to have Ivomec Like syrup and need to watch for vaccine freezing. But...
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    New artist to me at Klamath Bull Sale

    Klamath Bull Sale is kinda a mini-Red Bluff...While there, I saw an artist whose work really turned my head. Her name was Judy Erickson. She is about to get a website to show her work. Originally from California, she lives in Sprague River Oregon now.... What I liked was although it showed...
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    A Revelation!!!! Market Based of course

    Got to thinking.......Under my philosophy, it allows SH and myself to both participate. If a group comes to me and says, "We feel like we want to buy tested beef," well I can provide it to them. Note, I make no claims other than it is tested. I'm having a hard time seeing the Snake Oil Deal on...
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    Market Based Trading

    Sooooooooo, We're in then out......Japan put us all in the same pot so to speak. I have had my own thoughts for awhile and post periodically.....But I can't help but think.... Right now our approach is to force our solution onto other countries. Sooooo Japan, take our methods and "Educate"...
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    Hey Nicky!

    Are you going to the Cattlemans Conference in La grande on Saturday. It is at the College. I will have a Hydraulic chute with D & B Supply there, PPRM
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    Anybody going to Denver?

    Stopped in at a store in Ellensburg. The owners were gone to Denver, I had forgot it was that time. I never have been, was wondering if anyone else goes, PPRM
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    Kinda disappointed-Spokane Ag Expo

    We worked hard and will work hard at the Spokane Ag Expo. We are having a Hydraulic Chute demo.....Well, I just read the flyer in the Capital Press.....Seems the Ag Expo didn't see fit to add anything to the flyer beyond Cattle Demo's..... Heck, I know guys that drove 150-200 miles to se a...
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    Just got a check from Tyson...Agman

    Did very well. I averaged $1.53 on the rail About $1150/head...... 83 % graded choice with the Majotiry choice 2's.... I did have one classified as a Holstien. I need to call the buyer and see who is calling this and why. I can only think of a grey hiefer, but I sent what looked to be a full...
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    Yikes

    Last night, the brand inspector was talking to me. She said a guy at the Dairy told her that there was a new shot they would be giving Jersey steers to develop Sirloin. I asked more questions, but she had no answers. I left the conversation with the comment, "Hmmm...Some Bodybuilders have had...
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    Twins

    Had a great mother cow calve last night, when I arrived this morning, she was fussing over a brand new hiefer calf and letting it nurse. Then I saw another calf that was dead. She was a huge pregnant cow and I had suspected twins. I checked all the other cows and there was nothing else that had...
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    The day

    Spent the day cleaning out feeder area. I stack in a bunch of blue grass straw and put feeder panels around. Cows will get Free choice Blue grass Straw and then alfalfa supplement. I just break strings on one tone bales and fill feeders once a week...Works well... Something about driving a...
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    Miscelleneous feeder pictures

    Here's some calves I have on feed, the majority were odds and ends I have picked up, Black Calf was a surprise outta a feeder hiefer I bought, he was a nice surprise, Same calf bein shy Green and ready to gain PPRM
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    Late pictures from putting cows on Fall Pasture, Oct 1

    Here's some pics from when I turned cows out on Fall pasture, this was Oct 1... Cows and a few trader calves Look at that grass, still on it Dec, 1 Mother of the calf that gained 4.37 lbs/day in the steer futurity Roan Hiefer just weaned calf Roan calf we knicknamed Rodeo...
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