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We thought this would end well. Unless I hit the lottery and can buy it myself, it won’t. History is fraught with big government or agencies mismanagement though. One of the duck hunting places looks to be finally sold. The owner and I had done a fantastic job and it’s a heck of a habitat for...

I've spent time watching and learning over the years. A lot of what I learned as good Horsemanship transfers to cattle is my feeling. Make the right thing easy, wrong thing hard. Get your stock to respond to lower and lower amounts of pressure. When they even think of responding, release...

I helped a single mom (All of about 5 foot tall and 110 pounds) get some equipment and set it up. Basically, it was a Tub, half sheeted alley and a basic Hydraulic chute. She was really appreciative as we put it up. Here's the text I got just a bit ago. Keep in mind, she is fairly novice with...

We sometimes get pretty bad Ice Storms and freezing rain here. A few years ago, I came across some "Chains for shoes" called Yak Traks. This morning was the first occasion I have had to use them. i slipped them over my muck boots as I went out to water. Pretty good and certainly worth preventing...

Just venting... Yesterday I get a call. A Seattle area Restaurant generally takes a beef a week from my butcher. In the course of a month, that means 1 a month from me. The Butcher was trying to spread the wealth a bit. The restaurant wanted to go exclusively with ours as in the course of 10...

:stop: Well.... What a day so far. Tractor battery dead, jumper cables gone.... No one open so had to drive to truck stop to buy heavy enough ones. Hydraulics won't operate Baler tailgate, can't get ahold of Ag West to send someone out, Phone acting up, go to Apple Store, apparently water...

We aren't in the hay business. However, I got tired of turning away potential leases because the number of cows I have doesn't match when a good pasture comes up. So, I bought some haying equipment to manage forage. One was a Clauss silage baler with wrapper. The baler seems to have electronic...

Marbling is a big factor for us. We direct market beef. I noticed some embryo bull calves at a sale with really decent to good epd's for it. However, the measured IMF wasn't compared to non flushed calves. WSU has done some work showing nutritional effects en utero on actual IMF for the...

Interesting topic in Cow Talk on Facebook. Do you preg? It evolved into methods. I've been interested in biopryne blood draw. Turns out the test is $2.50/head at one nearby lab. Not sure on shipping or materials. I do like the flexibility of not having to schedule a vet. Some other...

Well, I just found out 8 days ago that the place I was expecting to buy sold. I've been on it for 16 years as my primary wintering place. The owners always said they want me to buy it. I almost had it done about 5 years ago. But, a major meat shop shorted me almost $50K and it put that on hold...

I've always really appreciated cows with great maternal instincts. In our October Calvers, we had two that dropped twins and went right to raising them. The solid Black is actually a first calf heifer. We are on irrigated pasture here and good winter groceries. Twins usually do pretty well.

http://s16.photobucket.com/user/PPRM/media/Nursing%20cow%20in%20chute.jpg.html A calving pen is ideal. However, a squeeze chute is all I have for this. I used to drop kick panels to access a cows udder for the calf. There can be several issues doing that. The bar above the kick panels may be...

I just bought a Claas 255 Rotocut silage baler. It comes complete with the wrapper integrated. I've been looking at these for awhile. I am not wanting to be in the Hay business. Never have wanted to be. However, two things kind of drove this. First, taking advantage of early spring growth. It...

Seems like a trip is in order some day.... I've found a number of ties to broken bow. it started on a different Internet Forum and I became really good Cyber Friends with a guy from Broken Bow. Next thing I know, I have another friend I do a lot of business with going hunting in Broken Bow. His...

Well, as I age, I find myself investing in things that take the work out of work. One thing I never see in the Pacific NW is Hydra-beds. Seems like there are a few brands similar. Eager as I am to look at going that way, I am still pragmatic by nature. And, anyone I talk to from the plains...

I'm linking the brand we use in my pickups. It is Filtration Solutions. I've had great luck with this. First trial was on a 96 Powerstroke. We kept testing the oil and increasing the miles per oil change without Synthetic oil. First thing we noticed was it cleaned things up and the engine...

I was in Utah this week. Brand New Hydraulic Chute by Powder River. I am truly excited about this one. It is a really heavy Commercial one. Everyone I showed it to was really impressed. Can't wait to have pictures to show

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LOL, I wasn't certain where to post this. Bull Session has always been too harsh. Working with a new Meat Cutter. I like it in that this USDA Inspected Cutter owns his shop and has been around awhile though he is only maybe in his 40's. He started stuffing sausages in is dads shop when he was...