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We put up a new barn this winter! And added another camera to the system to cover it. Hoping the weather stays nice and we don't need it much, but happy to be prepared! https://www.facebook.com/Randi.DeBruyne/videos/10207516030312486/ The 2 newest babies, both off of heifers got to spend the...

http://www.country-guide.ca/daily/cargill-to-supply-alberta-carcass-data-to-bixs?utm_source=FBC%20Publications&utm_campaign=86b2424d2e-Country%20Guide%20daily%20enews%20west%20Feb%2020%2C%202016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2da8244677-86b2424d2e-88378761 So Cargill has stepped up to the plate...

A couple of days ago we had a heifer calve with this little preemie calf. Weighed 32 lbs. It is the smallest live calf (out of a regular sized cow) that I've ever seen. He is at the very least 3 weeks early and, I'm guessing he'd be longer than that. He is fortunate that we even knew his mama...

Daytime.... https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10205009487170474&l=8644437536232893632 Night time https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10205044489805518&l=5103458245745068240 We have had a camera in the barn for several years, and then got one for the pens just outside the barn. They are...

Since calving season is upon some of us, and fast approaching for the rest, here is our calving season routine... First off, a few things that we do, if we have a cow calving, once the water bag is out, we expect to see a calf or significant progress within about 1/2 hour for cows and 1 hour...

On another forum, it was suggested feeding later in the day will influence calving times. Which got me thinking, and, since I record like basically EVERYTHING, including TIME OF CALVING and the fact that I am messing around with a spreadsheet to help me see how the herd has/is changing over the...

So after I got finished catering luncheon, I went out to check on the working girls...(notice, no boys out here.... ;-) It's a rough life.. Working for your living Hard to keep that svelte body shape... Some of the new girls thought maybe I brought something for them.. But when it...

Today it was my turn to cater lunch.... This is my equipment The luncheon crowd has been known to get a little rowdy, so I bring a couple of bouncers along... The crowd actually gets treated quite well, here is my view of the main course... And since the equipment has an aversion to...

So here's our dilemma, we will be feeding about 300 head of cows this winter. We have a Highline 6600 bale processor. We've fed 3x4x8 squares through it before, but have always used a second tractor to load with. That's not too big of a deal when we're feeding at home, but we are going to be...

Thursday is the big day. All the steers calves (And a few heifers) are heading for the sale barn. Which means that we moved them and their mamas today. It was about a 3 mile trek. Now, Thursday morning we should be able to get an early start and have them into town before noon. Fingers crosses...

On Oct 1 we preg checked and weighed all the cows and calves. Preg checking went pretty well, with just under 10% dry. But we lost a bunch of first calvers that turned up dry. No rhyme or reason, some calved early, some later, some had big calves, some didn't.... Now that I've had time to...

We had BSEs done on all our bulls yesterday. The vet called this morning and said that one had a bunch of bent tails, and another had pus in his semen. He says to give the one with the infection 4 treatments with micotil and retest in a month. And just to give the other about 3-4 weeks and...

We've been pretty busy calving the last few weeks. We are pretty much done the first cycle. Last week we had a visitor, and it was great to meet someone from off of these boards again. Milkmaid came up for a visit and to see how we do things here. It was great to have her, I know I learned a lot...

I took this video today, thought people might be interested in how we handle the cows at calving time. It has been especially cold here the last few days. Today was quite a bit warmer, but still chilly enough that if possible we like to have to cows in the barn to calve. So I saw this old girl...

I finally took some photos, and here they are. It's a pretty limited selection though. - 13C here this morning, almost no snow left, but man is it icy. Cows are about 4 weeks out from calving now...

I don't know about your areas, but around here the bred market is pretty low. After a lot of deliberation (about a couple hours of it anyways...) we decided it only made sense to part with all of our open replacement heifers and buy some cows. Figured if we could pick up young bred cows for...

Here's what the heifers look like now. They are all in calf, and the ones we got 2 years ago are all still here too, they have all raised 2 good calves and are all bred back again. Pretty impressed with them!

So this year we intentionally kept 1 bull calf. He is off of a commercial Red Angus cow and his sire is Red Blake's Tradition 22Y http://abri.une.edu.au/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll?1=20213329&2=2420&3=56&5=2B3C2B3C3A&6=5A5D5A275926262126&9=505D505C His mother is an 11 year old cow and one of our...

Since I took too many photos to simply copy and past, here's a link to most of the photos I've taken this year. The most recent ones were taken today and it is mostly the bred heifers and some cows and calves. Hope you enjoy them! http://s291.photobucket.com/user/randilianaz2/library/2013%20cows

Saw these guys tonight when we went out to check some crop and see how much rain we had.