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A Few Overdue Ranch Pics

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PureCountry

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Galloway calf playing peekaboo

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Hidin' behind Momma(angus/gelbvieh 2nd calver)

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Makin' a break for it.

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The joys of calving on open ground....they just come out of the bush with calf at side.

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Love that colostrum!

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One of Rkaiser's Galloway 1st calvers that we have on shares, looking for a place to nest and calve.


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Half Gelbvieh 2nd calver, out of an angus/tarentaise/hereford cow, with her Galloway baby.

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My Morgan/Quarter horse gelding, Murphy. Took this one in the last rain we had - 3 weeks ago. Kinda fuzzy, sorry.
 
Nice cattle Pure :) Where are you on the Battle,for some reason I have you pegged Brownfieldish,don't ask me why :???:

I lost that bet to SHAWN,hes coming for steak dinner one night,he said October sometime.....your also invited{wife and kids too},will let you know when...that is if you can put up with greg :wink:
 
Thank you for sharing!!!!

Do the Galloway cattle shed off during the summer? I've seen a couple of belted Galloway's but don't recall seeing them in the summertime.

Your calves are sure cute lil' buggers. Our calves are getting old enough that they're no longer cute lil' calves!

I like your horse, bet he's a smooth rider!

Remember to share more!

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 
Thanks folks. I'll try and post some more TTB, it'll get alot easier as of next weekend because I'm officially done my oilfield job as of Friday. I'll be staying at home with the boys, focusing on them and our beef business. Can't wait to have all my time to myself again. Been working off-farm for 13 years trying to pay for cows and such, so it'll be a change, but one I'm really looking forward to.

As for Murphy, he rides like a rockin' chair. And I hear your concerns about his halter on there Ranch Hand, but I haven't had any problems in many years with a horse wearing one while he was posing for a pic in the barnyard. :P I wouldn't leave it on him if he was destined for open pasture for sure.
 
Thanks for the pictures, Pure Country. I think a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross would be a good one. Penny was one of my dad's top horses through the years, and he was a quarter Morgan and three-fourths Quarter Horse. Penny was as cowy as they come, and had plenty of endurance.

How do the hairy Galloway cattle take these 100 degree days? It looks like the heat could be a bit hard on them, though bitter cold shouldn't even phase them. Quite a few years ago, I was considering using a Galloway bull. I was visiting with a friend who order buys a lot of cattle on any given year. He said they are good cattle, but cautioned that sometimes in a muddy feedlot, the extra hair collects extra mud. I didn't end up using any, mainly for that reason.

Thanks for posting the photos.
 
Good pics Pure. Nice to see other producers with bush. Good looking Galloway heifer. We bought a couple Galloway yearling bulls in June. One thing I noticed with these cattle is that they have larger nostrils and a larger muzzle than any other breed. I think that these larger nostrils probably help with air exchange during hot spells ( in answer to Soap's question). We're having a plus 40 heatwave right now and I've been watching for signs of stress and so far they are handling it well. I've also noticed that flies don't seem to bother these cattle, probably because of the extra hair, although these 2 young bulls have shedded off a lot since we got them. I'm looking forward to minus 40 temps now, so that I can start gauging cold stress. Only in Manitoba!!!!!! I gotta ask you to drop your halter off your horse, whether he is in the corral or not. I saw an excellent ranch gelding get wrecked one time, because of his halter. He was scratching the side of his cheek with his back foot. He got his foot caught up in his halter and did irrepairable damage to his muscles and ligaments in his back leg and had to be put down.
 
We just came home from having a picnic with our Galloways Soapweed. :D Packed the kids and a cooler and went checking cows/yearlings. Once we found them, we found a place to throw down a blanket under the shade of a big maple.... which is exactly where we found all the cows - Galloways or crossbreds. I don't think their hair is as much of a curse in this hot weather as you might think. They seem to do alright. And as rainie mentioned, the hair really helps with insects. I try to keep track of which animals seem more resistant to flies and such, and the slicker Angus cross cows have been covered the worst in this 3 weeks of dry heat.
 

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