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    The cows came home

    Brought the last group home this morning. About -35C in the breeze, but not too bad. Glad I rode over to get them as the snowmobilers had left gates open all over. Out the gate Lining out... The cows go marching 2 x 2 Over the hills Across the creek And eating the woods To the bales at...
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    New Heifers

    Picked up 20 new bred heifers from the Johnston Fertile Valley Sale in Saskatoon last weekend. We settled them for two days and now they are out bale grazing with our young bunch. (sorry for the crappy pictures, I used my phone) There are quite a few Final Answer heifers in the bunch (9)...
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    Ornery Sodaks

    http://beefmagazine.com/blog/south-dakota-nixes-joan-jett-its-thanksgiving-parade-float It is nice to see a state where the rural population still has some positive influence.
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    Pics from Fall rounding up, etc....(Part2)

    Headed to our Meadow Lake Ranch on Monday to pull cows. It took 4 hours to make the 2 1/2 hour trip. Frosty morning. To give perspective on the snow - the grass sticking up is between 2 1/2 and 3' tall. Found some cows Young Mr. Wilson in his "don't shoot me" hat Some good friends and...
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    Pics from Fall rounding up, etc....(Part1)

    We rounded up some pumpkins and took some cows back out after preconditioning calves My dad rode on the way back to grass We brought a young bunch home. I think my dad rode this time because... Billy came along My dad and my son bringing cows to the gate (one is too short to get back on...
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    A couple from the last weeks...

    Sunrise off the deck a couple of weeks ago A monitoring shot of a native pasture A neighbour called the other day about some cows out. That is nearly always a good call when you get to do this. A mid/late May heifer calf from a third calver and our "In Focus" grandson taken a couple of weeks...
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    A couple of pics

    We have been a bit busy around here, but I finally have a bit to post some pics. My fencing crew through the back window Replaced a bell on old Ding-A-Ling Horse whisperer Gate getter Rolled this baby out with our 535 baler 24 hours and $1600 later A sample from our second batch of the...
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    Fencing costs

    I was stunned yesterday... We had quite a bit of fencing to do this year and next with some replacement due to snow plough damage, some due to age and some due to needing electricity instead of barbs. High tensile wire is $115 a roll at UFA, but went on sale at Peavey Mart and Coop for $100...
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    A bit of May and June

    First of May - with some delay Some calves in May - eating hay And some bulls - that are OK Some Dutch kids we taught to AI (I can't rhyme AI) A spring concert - mine is in the yellow dress in the middle And exiting stage left (mine is one left of the teacher) Slide static at the park...
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    A short blast of Spring

    We had a brief burst of spring last weekend, before we got another 8 inches of snow and never topped freezing yesterday. Today is nicening up. We had the first 5 babies of spring about a week ago And the first calf a few days later Keep up! Turned cows onto Rake Bunches Went picking...
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    Looking for DNA Samples on Bulls

    I have been on a bit of an adventure the last little while sourcing DNA samples on influential bulls for a big research project in Canada. It has been real fun, as a lot of the bulls that have made the breed are held in old tanks and I have had great opportunity to visit a lot of breeders that...
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    A few new happenings around here

    We had a dugout dug the start of the month. The guy came from building Ice Roads up north and had very little fear. Here he is cleaning out the bottom of the dugout He went in and out twice, and we thought he was a tad nuts. He had to drag his butt out of the hole...
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    A bit of snow

    Funny how the little things stick out. We have had a great stormy week (like many others) but yesterday when I was moving the wire for calves this struck me. The post is 4' long and makes a very effective gopher fence. The new fence is tied to a tree and the post is set in the snow to hold...
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    Here is winter (pics)

    Had a great birthday this week. Daughters built me a cake (pink with prince and princess in the middle Fed the young bunch on my birthday and got ready for a load of hay to come in. Brother is around this winter so he ran the tractor. I run in with my snowshoes and move the fence. It is...
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    Kind of Crazy Around Here...

    It has been a busy few months and I apologize in advance for the picture quality of the Iphone pics. We are still facing 3 feet of snow with more predicted for this week. Thankfully we missed the last storm. We bought a bull in February We had a birthday party for my saddle partner in March...
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    Electric Branding Iron

    Anyone use one and do you like it? http://www.niftylivestockequip.com/eltoro.html
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    Busy Month Pics

    It has been a rather busy month, but not too much for chores. We have about 300 head around but only have about 3 hours of chores a week. There is to be a system moving in that will drop us to -47 this week, so we did about 5 hours today, moving fence for the young bunch, moving slabs for cows...
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    A few jobs today...

    Got some bulls headed in this morning. Cut them out with the horse and ivomeced the keepers and loaded the culls (leathers were a touch stiff this morning. After a white knuckler to Viking on the ice, got culls unloaded to sell tomorrow, and made it home. Then we did our weekly round of...
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    Some December photos

    School Christmas Concerts (got to do 2 this year) Ready to go Ready to go night #2 Excited onlooker Ready for our Church concert It is a smaller but very important affair Brought cows home off a bunch of swaths today. -25C when I hit the saddle this morning Rounded up and out New...
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    Some wintery pics

    Moving some cows on Nov 6th...This snow is at the bottom of the pile in the next pics Nice day Dec 4th - the snow in the field is about 30" deep. Post wind ripples From My Weather station (without windchill) - note the 1 hour above 0C (32F) on Nov 17th. Tis' the season Angel askew
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