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There is a neighbor place purchased by a man who lives the other side of Boise. He bought and shipped in 24 Galloway bred heifers in January 2024. He told me that they would be in high demand here. Hmmmmm not my monkey, not my circus. He comes over and checks on them once or twice a week...

Today was the branding and haul the cows off to summer camp. I have 60 cows and 58 calves which is by far the smallest branding in the neighborhood. Well the crew arrive about 8:30 this morning. A pair of B's must have crawled through the fence so we branded 59. We gathered, sorted and...

Friday late afternoon we were headed to town. I noticed a bull in with the cows. Yesterday morning when I fed he was bawling at the cows and racing around checking them out. This morning when I fed he was no longer there. As I was finishing up I spotted him walking down the road. Either I...

OK. It is now officially spring. I went out to feed the cows at the crack of dawn as usual. This morning I didn't put a coat on for the first time in months. It was up to 38 degrees and is supposed to hit 70 today. I am going to start irrigating this afternoon. The shift from winter chores...

It has been up to 70 degrees here the last couple days. That melts the snow. The hill behind the house is 4,700 feet tall. A couple days ago there was snow down to around 4,000. Now there is barely any clear up to the top. The reservoir is dang near full so the dam man has been dumping 650...

Well it is a 3 calf morning. But not a black calf morning. Normally buying these one and done cows it is a real rainbow herd. Not so much this year. There is 4 red white faced cows, 4 solid red cows, and Charlie the Charolais. The other 55 are all either black or baldie cows. None of the...

It is not often that the wife calls you while at the sale and says stop on your way home an pick up some chicks. I am getting older and it is not as easy to pick up chicks as it once was. So I stopped at Oregon Trail Livestock Supply and got 10 Barred Rock pullet chicks.

The wife was disappointed when she decided that at 72 she was just too old to go sledding. I pointed out a hill with a gentle slope and lots of run out but she declined. Then yesterday late afternoon I pulled up in front of the house. There was a big snow ball in the front yard. She was...

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to one and all.

Last week I had a cow show up over in Bridgeport. That is about 15 miles from here by road and it is about 10 miles by road the other direction to where she was turned out. If she cut the corner and went in a straight line it is about 20 miles from A to B. I planned to take her to the sale...

Compared to last week today was a pretty short sale. I got 2 cows bought. When I got home I glanced at the brand release paper. Right off I noticed something. One of the cows I bought came from a neighbor. A lightning C on the left rib. We will have to make sure we get that cow branded and...

Last Thursday I hauled in a kill bull and cow for B. Left the house before 9:00. Got to the sale a little before 11:00am. Watched a couple thousand feeders sell. Only got one cow bought at about 7:00pm. They got done with bred cows and started in with kill cows at about 7:10. Dashed to the...

My son came to go deer hunting last Friday. Brought his youngest daughter with. That 11 year old girl is a deer spotting machine. Season opened on Saturday. All he was seeing was spikes and 2 points. Today would have been his last day to hunt. Yesterday morning he headed up the hill on the...

It is not just everyone who has a pet bear in their backyard and a pet coyote in the front yard. The wife says we live in a zoo. Except it is us caged in the house with the critters looking in the windows to see what the people are doing. The bear is in the yard daily. Most days it shows up...

I found a machine which will roll up old barb wire. Looks to be a good machine which can roll up a quarter mile of wire in just a matter of a few minutes compared the time doing it by hand. There is miles of fence needing to be replaced after the fires. I am wondering what it would be worth to...

With all the fences and the vast majority of the grass burned up cows are wandering free. Fire tends to jump around and leave little patches which didn't burn. So as the cows graze off those little patches and no fences left to hold them they migrate off to find grass. Being the first place they...

We went to the Pendleton Roundup yesterday. If you have never been there it is a huge arena. Five acres of grass with about a 40 foot wide dirt track around the outside. It gets and is western. There is a 18 (?) inch tall plastic rail on the inside of the track. That rail gets taken down...

The fire brought down a lot of wildlife. There is no where left for them in the hills. So this evening I had 2 people tell me that they saw a black bear sow with 2 cubs on my property which they saw from the road. A bit ago the dogs were barking in their kennel. The wife went out and shined a...

The one and done cows are all done. With the grass shortage because of the fire it was time for them to leave. They were on some irrigated pasture which is going to be needed by some long term cows who will be coming out of the hills shortly. The cows were going to go direct to the plant but...

Took a drive yesterday and bought a new flaker feeder. It hauls and feeds out 2 of the 3x4x8 that I feed. It is operated remotely with a key fob. Push the right button and things happen. You set a bale flat on the table on the rear. It tips up on edge in the feeding position. Drop the...