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    Smaller Isn't Always Better

    GM88 Shared this on Facebook and I thought this was worth posting here. Seems like the mortality rates he mentions are awful high for any class of calves but not a big surprise as to which class of calves have the toughest time...
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    Executive Orders

    Nice to see Donald reversing some of Obama's executive orders, in particular the one halting the Keystone XL pipeline.
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    Yesterday at the Sale Barn

    It looked to me as thought the market has firmed and even rebounded a bit. At least yesterday, in one little auction barn, in northern Canada. Our mongrel steer calves weighed up nicely this year averaging 662 pounds straight through and fetched and average price of $1,090. One pen of 20 steers...
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    High School Rodeo Pic

    My son took up high school rodeo this year, and this weekend was another rodeo. This photo was not taken by me but it is my boy and it was on a public site and it made me dang proud so I thought I'd share it. Sadly, he came about 1/10th of a second short of the buzzer, but hey, more rides to come!
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    Make way for this candidate.

    This guy needs your vote. He appears to be the complete package. https://vimeo.com/160842124
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    1000 Ways to Die in the West

    Just when you think nothing will surprise you anymore something freakish and unexpected happens. Earlier this morning I was doing some tagging and then kicking out pairs by the barn. Nice lively calf born yesterday was a real dynamo, hard to even hold for processing. I got it all looked after...
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    First Heifer to Calve

    ...and she made me drive her to town to do it :mad: Oh well, that's calving. Surgery in full swing Got a hold of it Success Even mom is impressed The lady vet did a great job, very professional. I enjoyed this experience much more than doing it myself :nod: Hopefully that will be...
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    A little lesson for everyone

    https://www.facebook.com/busterj2/videos/10204499698879476/
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    Seems hardly fair

    that you folks down Nebraska way already have an extra 3 minutes of daylight in the afternoon! We are measuring our extra afternoon daylight in seconds still. Day length here today is 6 hrs and 53 minutes. Looking forward to the days lengthening out, despite the old saying "As the days grow...
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    Hay Cutting Pics July 2015, N. of 56

    It's been an awfully dry summer so far, we just got an inch of rain the other day to bring our total since the snow left up to 2 1/2". We did get a nice little snow in early May that I think really helped. Looks like an average hay year, some fields pretty fair, some pretty poor. Mrs. Silver was...
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    Happy 148th

    Happy birthday Canada! Always proud to be Canadian, maybe even a little more so on July 1 every year. Lets not relax with being the best country in the world, lets try to make it even better every day!
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    Farming Nearly Done

    We are not farmers, but do need to rejuvenate some hay land every year. Finished up the power harrowing this evening, tomorrow will put the last 20 or so acres in. Then just drag the diamond harrows over the last of it and we can put a bow on another 250 acres for the season. This little...
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    Spring Bears

    Just a reminder to be careful out there. My wife's 27 year old cousin was killed by a bear over the weekend while camping with his fiancé. One might think that falling asleep in your chair by the fire would not be inherently dangerous, but I guess one never knows. It's a pretty heartbreaking...
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    Hey Alberta

    What H E double hockey stick are you guys thinking???? An NDP majority???!!?
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    Random Calving Season Pics Mar 29 2015

    Just thought I'd share some pics Mrs. Silver took this evening :-)
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    Baycox (toltrazuril)

    Has anyone been using this for coccidiosis prevention? We used it the last two years in a trial pill form which was discontinued. This year it is available in liquid oral form but it's pretty pricey as every calf gets it at birth. Seems like since we have been proactive in dealing with cocci...
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    2014 World Champs

    Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their victory in the 2014 Grey Cup game! Awesome!
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    When the American anthem glitches at a Canadian event...

    .... it's okay, we got it covered :shock: :wink: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/20/maple-leafs-american-anthem_n_6193658.html
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    Great Neighbours

    I suppose this post doesn't necessarily belong on this forum, but I know lots of folks don't visit the other ones. Just wanted to say that despite my occasional ranting and raving here and there, it is good to have great neighbours and I'm damned glad to have you folks to the South of us. I'm...
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    Preg Checked Yesterday

    Yesterday we preg checked the cows. Beautiful warm day, and great help. We managed a great test so even though we had decided to cull really hard this year in order to bring the numbers down a bit we will still have too many to calve if we don't make another cut. :shock: Anyway, we averaged...
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