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God at work at the fair grounds

Follow up - - - now that Old Meany has been gone I cannot believe how much easier the entire herd is to handle - - - walk up to any cow so far and check sex on the new born calf, tag it and walk them calmly to the gate to the next farm. I should have gotten rid of that old rip after the first...

Many of you might remember I had a charlois cow that we called "Meany" - - - this old girl should have gone to hamburger years ago but I kept trying to rehabilitate her. This year she got so cahtankerous that she killed her own calf and fought any cow coming close to her. I pened her up so...

It is not hard to put a small gasoline engine ( about 25 HP ) on the tounge and a 4 to 1 reducing gearbox, electric start and electric clutch and then you can do it all with your pick-up

This is true. Some of the people I deal with have always been treated as dirt - - - they come to expect to be treated badly and it takes a while for them to understand there is another way. Same with cattle - - - if they have been trated badly in the past they expect the same, some will respond...

Dealing with either animals or people takes time and training - - - I am now the Director of Transports for the local Sheriff's Dept - - - I am trying to instill on the people under me that we are always on alert but try to make the J3 feel at ease - - - If you see the "jewelry” I put them in we...

I just found out that photo bucket now wants $400.00 per year to allow the pictures to come to these sites - - - sorry I will not pay! Also I talked to the guys from the sale barn and "Ole Meany" was so distructive that she almost destroyed a bull pen and when they ran her on the scale she hit...

Many of you might remember that I have made a project out of "Ole Meany" This was a charolis cow #15 that has had a bad attitude and I thiught I could modify it - - - bad long time experiment. I even kept her up for hand feeding and hand watering - - - this cow normally had a muddy head as...

I do chip my dogs and I feel it is a great tool if I have to identify an animal - - - proof of ID for rabies shots in case of need - - - identification of an animal that is stolen. I have the reader that is rated the top of the line and reads several different brands of chips but it needs to be...

My son and his father-in-law had a calf about 4 months old that they found hung in a tree - - - neck in a fork about 5' off the ground - - - they think she had to have jumped to get up there and probably died in minutes - - - Some of them are just bound to die. About 20 years ago I noticed the...

Cow #8 had her calf Thursday and I tagged it and moved her in with the others with calves. Friday morning #8 was off by herself, not unusual but in a strange location - - - upon checking the calf was at the bottom of a 6' sink hole and from the mashed grass must have been there all night. I...

On a side note, even a halter broke bull can seriously hurt ya if he rubs ya against a pickup truck or something else. Do as you will and enjoy life, but the best advice I have heard was to never trust a bull in the spring. 2200 lbs of romantic bull sometimes forget what they learned in the...

I have never tested a bull before turn out in my life. My daughter-in-law's father ( Larry ) has a degree in animal husbandry from Purdue and we went together on some bulls this year and he insisted we test them. I like buying about 500# bulls out of known parents and this is what we did (...

Here in central Indiana where the creeks are shallow they run fast and I cannot remember a time when you could not find open water - - - but animals that are restricted to one of the barn areas for one reason or another need a source of fresh water - - -I do not feel snow would work well here...

I feel we stole it for $25,000 - - - weighs in at 44,000# - - - 11' wide - - - this was a one owner machine by the biggest "basement contractor" in the area. Very tight and we even got the dealer to do a 2,000 hour service - - - we ended up paying $1,500 for the 30" bucket plus $300.00 shipping...

Right now there are several good deals out there. We sold the old excavator and bought a 2007 JD 200C lc - - - 7,000 hours good AC and quiet cab - - - good tight machine with a 2 yd 4' bucket - - - found a 30" bucket in Wisconsin for fence row work. With the 2 yd bucket I can sure load a tri...

I get grief from my son as I like to feed with the backhoe better than the skidsteer. I bought 35 grass bales that are net wrapped ( I hate net wrap but 2,200# good bales at $25.00 @ and only about 12 miles away are hard to turn down ) If I feed with the skidsteer I have to turn the bale on end...

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I am having to water the bulls ( I'm keeping a couple plus mine ) for a few days as the "Ritchie" fountain I put in back in 1983 froze up Wednesday and I am not going to tear into it until the weather gets a little warmer - - - I have a hydrant and about a 30 gallon tank that I can fill a couple...