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Just catching up with reading older posts, what type of sheep do you have jodywy? Congrats on the good prices.

I know a friend of ours has been getting waste pasta from a place he works at. They give a little to the cows with their straw/hay ration. I've fed waste bread before when our cousins owned a grocery store. Got 200 pounds per week, 100 of bread and 100 of spoiled veggie/fruits. Cows picked out...

Those are deciduous species Dave. Conifers are the pines, larch, spruce and such. Our country is 90% pine, little larch and fir. Very few aspen, cottonwood & willow other than along the creeks and rivers. I'd like to help with that snake fence to see how it's done, if you didn't live a thousand...

Great pics Silver. Cows look to have taken winter pretty well.

When I was a brand inspector we would get calls for strays on roads and highways. If the cops called, it was usually just a matter of identifying a brand on a bloated carcass. If locals called, it was usually a rancher who was fed up with his neighbors cattle being out. And in Alberta, if...

Great looking calves Denny. Creep always helps of course. They'll push the scale down good this fall.

Nice pics OT. Sure is satisfying to have grass at this time of year, your country looks great.

I would expect good young breds to be $2500 and up. Heard of one guy that has his calves contracted for mid-October in the $1500 range and cows are sold to leave shortly after. I've spoken with several guys in their 50's-70's who are planing to call it quits this fall while prices are so high...

Productive and profitable from the looks of them OT. Nice cows.

I never meant to insinuate that my way or or 1 way is the only way. If that's how it was perceived that's unfortunate, as it was not my intention. And if you're insinuating that I am not a mainstream ag producer and I'm sticking my nose where it doesn't belong or something, I disagree. Maybe I'm...

I'm perplexed with some of your points, or how you see them as points. Waste products incorporated into rations? In a business sense it's efficient use of resources but most waste products I can think of going into beef rations actually contribute to many problems with beef production - DDG's...

I don't want to get into it with any of you over this, but I do want to state my opinion. I am a firm believer that the current feedlot system of beef production is not sustainable, because it relies 100% on manufactured and processed inputs to do it in any fashion that resembles an efficient...

We start using bulls at age 2 and they have lasted until they are 6-12 in my experience. There are always those jackasses who find ways to weed themselves out. Those that last just prove that we were right to keep them. The black herd bull named Titus in the pictures above went down with a...

I'd like to see them for sure. Are they growing out well?

Had to take pics for a package of females we're selling so I took pics of most of the herd and some turned out not too bad. Don't think I'll try being a photographer anytime soon. Purebred Galloway yearling bull, Boughbaron Flash 31A. He is for sale. Got 5lbs per day of show ration in January...

I fear you may be a few hundred years too late: http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/breeds/cattle/galloway/index.htm Kidding aside, there is very little profit margin in a beef calf for ranchers to afford a blanket on a beef animal, like something you see on horses. Buying it, and the time to...

Well it has been a little quiet on here lately. LOL No drama or fightin. PPRM, I'm curious why you say you don't have time to winter calve. That's not a common statement, most say the opposite because they're in the field to much to spring calve. Do you work out in the winter? Just curious.

Leanin H that was great - the carhart evening wear catalog. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: What better way to start the day than with a laugh? Have a good one all.

I think a main reason for tasteless burger these days is the ammonia washing solution it goes through to mitigate E.Coli risk. This is common practice nowdays, and probably also why the 80-20 ground is a top seller - it has more fat which still gives it some flavor over the leaner grinds. It...

Bearvalley, can I come look at your Stone sheep sometime? They sound promising! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks for the input folks. I've heard good things and bad about most of the breeds mentioned. Don't see very many Cheviots or Scottish Blackface, but when I hear old boys talk about...