a few pictures taken lately

[R A]

a couple heifers I have raised

getting a drink

wild heifer calf...dang....might have to keep her now.

cooling off

fetching fool!

I can see where it might be neat to plant an actual corn field. I've enjoyed looking at my tiny patch of sweet corn this summer. I can turn cows out on stocks this winter. (a 10' x 20' or so patch )

"I'M GOING TO RIDE IT"

don't get up ol' boy.

young colt

building a special place for my broody hen to hatch out and raise her babaies....still working on it.

I have help.

I can't believe how neat it was to me to have a hen hatch out eggs! Watching momma raise these babies has been priceless!!!!!!

a new bunny.

meet Bacon.. .....a Berkshire barrow. Thanks to Purecountry mentioning Berkshire, I read up on them and heard nothing but good.

Bacon didn't like me or my place the first couple days (he was weaned 5 minutes before I showed up to get him).....always pacing, standing up on the fences.....until I started giving up warm milk. ....then I was ok in his book and we have become quite chummy ....having had many hours of bull sessions on the future of the ranch now He's a character!

He's tilling gardens for me.

these mean heifers ran me up and over a gate and are still trying to get to me.

a tractor that I seen by a road.....signs of a struggle on the road.....grass burnt all around it..... :shock:

I had to sort off a cow and calf and take them to the corrals....cow was a little off to me.

a rooster at the Missouri State Fair.

a cow.

 

[Soapweed]

Cool pictures, R A. The rooster and the tractor both appear to be suffering from the same disease. :wink: Those must be a couple of mean baldies to shoo you over a gate, and they still didn't want to stop.

 

[Chimenea]

Great pictures, RA, thanks for sharing them. Great looking critters (well, the rooster might be better characterized as an "interesting looking critter" ... still, he looks fat enough to eat...). What happened to your colt's ear? In our neck of the woods, a lot of people still earmark their cattle (along with branding); I used to get a lot of questions along that line whenever I rode my gray stud with the frostbit ears. I guess you might get similar questions about a split-ear colt

 

[jodywy]

Great pictures, RA

 

[3 M L & C]

Nice pics.

 

[Hayguy]

Really do enjoy your pic's and comment's RA :!:

 

[gcreekrch]

I do enjoy your zest for life RA.

Thanks for the update. The only thing wrong with your herd is you need more just like them. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

That tractor might make you a good winter project.

Just think a "NEW" baling tractor. :lol: :lol:

 

[R A]

Cool pictures, R A. The rooster and the tractor both appear to be suffering from the same disease. :wink: Those must be a couple of mean baldies to shoo you over a gate, and they still didn't want to stop.

Thanks, Soapweed! Maybe they both just bursted into flames due to being pure awesomeness! I think those heifers were mad that I still had a few arm hairs left that they hadn't licked off yet when I headed out to leave....luckily I had back-up to save me from them tearing the gate down and getting me (pic below)

Great pictures, RA, thanks for sharing them. Great looking critters (well, the rooster might be better characterized as an "interesting looking critter" ... still, he looks fat enough to eat...). What happened to your colt's ear? In our neck of the woods, a lot of people still earmark their cattle (along with branding); I used to get a lot of questions along that line whenever I rode my gray stud with the frostbit ears. I guess you might get similar questions about a split-ear colt

Thanks, Chimenea! I couldn't believe all the chickens in the poultry barn at that fair! That rooster had the biggest crowd by far. He was terribly nervous...maybe felt naked in front of everyone.

Yeah, I imagine I always will get questions on that colt's ear ....I'd like to know how he did it myself. It was warm, he was with an older gelding, out on pasture with timber, sometimes hung out by a fence with two horses on the other side???? ....just showed up with it one day. :???: I have seen a few ear marked cattle around here. I still remember seeing my first herd of dewlap marked cattle.....whole herd had little waddle deals on their necks and I didn't think they were man made....I felt dumb.

 

[R A]

Great pictures, RA

Thanks, jodywy!

Nice pics.

Thanks, 3 M L & C!

Really do enjoy your pic's and comment's RA :!:

Thanks, hayguy!

I do enjoy your zest for life RA.

Thanks for the update. The only thing wrong with your herd is you need more just like them. :wink:

Thanks, gcreekrch! I'm excited....next year will be the first year in 3 years I will be breeding more than the year before....I'm straightened out and nobody's going to notice on here for awhile, but I'm starting to make my move.

That tractor might make you a good winter project.

Just think a "NEW" baling tractor. :lol: :lol:

...that would be quite the accomplishment and I would love to have taken a tractor like that and end up sitting on it some evening baling hay!!! ...the things I will have learned!!!! I'm slowly repainting my baler, making it look new....maybe that will lead to a project like that tractor someday.

 

[katrina]

I must confess....... I love pigs.... My hubby used to buy me twenty or so runts from his cousin... We called it going from the Hilton to Harlem for the pigs..

 

[Faster horses]

I must confess....... I love pigs.... My hubby used to buy me twenty or so runts from his cousin... We called it going from the Hilton to Harlem for the pigs..

After katrina's confession, I must confess that...I love chickens...
I used to get 100 baby chicks each year...but
haven't had any for a long time because my allergies wouldn't allow
me to clean the chicken house :wink: and if I couldn't clean it myself,
Mr. FH said he was really tired of cleaning it, so much so, that
he'd give up eggs ....so no more chickens.
I've seen several 'earmarked' horses like yours RA and it had to do with
blue heeler dogs and a barb wire fence... :shock:

And since I mentioned blue heeler dogs, anyone that could have 5 blue
heelers (especially males) HAS TO HAVE more patience than the average guy. And I love blue heelers............ :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, to qualify that, I love FEMALE blue heelers.

Thanks for the pictures, RA. You kids are going to have a lot of adventures
growing up with all those different animals.

 

[R A]

I must confess....... I love pigs.... My hubby used to buy me twenty or so runts from his cousin... We called it going from the Hilton to Harlem for the pigs..

I love pigs myself!....good looking ones!....some pigs scare me :shock: I'll probably get to where I breed a sow or two here and there.....at least once for the experience and go from there. Trying to get to where I raise all I can that we eat myself, so I'll be fattening up butcher pigs for the freezer from now on. I love to look at fair pigs and am definitly going to get into that also....gotta have my boy show them for me though....

It's already going to be hard to butcher Bacon! His pen is right by a gate that the cows come up to sometimes and hang out. A couple of times now I had to take a tractor through there to get hay equipment out of the way. He hears me telling my dogs to guard the gate and he comes over and just raises heck at those cows with them....then goes back to playing in the dirt when I'm through and the gate is closed. I swear he thinks he's helping.

 

[R A]

I must confess....... I love pigs.... My hubby used to buy me twenty or so runts from his cousin... We called it going from the Hilton to Harlem for the pigs..

After katrina's confession, I must confess that...I love chickens...
I used to get 100 baby chicks each year...but
haven't had any for a long time because my allergies wouldn't allow
me to clean the chicken house :wink: and if I couldn't clean it myself,
Mr. FH said he was really tired of cleaning it, so much so, that
he'd give up eggs ....so no more chickens.
I've seen several 'earmarked' horses like yours RA and it had to do with
blue heeler dogs and a barb wire fence... :shock:

And since I mentioned blue heeler dogs, anyone that could have 5 blue
heelers (especially males) HAS TO HAVE more patience than the average guy. And I love blue heelers............ :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, to qualify that, I love FEMALE blue heelers.

Thanks for the pictures, RA. You kids are going to have a lot of adventures
growing up with all those different animals.

Lots of coming out of the closets here....lol. I love chickens too! I didn't think I would, but they are a lot of fun. Feels good to eat eggs you are responsible for! ...and like I said in a earlier post, watching ol' momma hen raise those babies has been a real treat. I thought getting some chicks from the feed store was fun, but this is even neater, IMO! Whatever the hen is pecking at, the babies swarm her face like pirahna and eat it all up. Like...I throw grasshoppers in there and as she kills it the chicks are eating the pieces as fast as she tears it up. I find it neat. The chickens don't seem to bother my allergies like shoeing and breaking horses does and that kind of stuff????....for some reason. My nose just runs cleaning the coop. Even when I had chicks in the house, most cases I about die with animals in the house.

Yeah, it couldn't been my heelers that did that to the colt....they stay in pens every minute that I am not able to be a warden over them.....for that very reason. I have a lot more patience now with my dogs than I did when I first started messing with them....hard headed, confident suckers. ...I will always have a heeler though!....yep, female blue heelers are my favorite so far also!

I still have some species of animals I want to get, so yep, lots of stuff for my kids and I to mess with! .....besides running a LOT more cattle and being a team taking care of them....fun, fun!

 

[R A]

I'm trying to stay awake....so I thought maybe I throw some more pictures on here.


Weaned my first calf today...heifer....5 months old. I had to bring her and momma up a few days ago....momma is ready to go back, so I just kept baby in.

...then more various pictures. The one with my truck shows where it sat for a few weeks. If a horse is standing it will start....or however that goes.

 

[Nicky]

Why are you trying to stay awake?? I love your pictures but even more so love reading the comments you make! Your enthusiam is contagious Not enough for me to get pigs, goats or chickens though LOL

 

[R A]

Why are you trying to stay awake?? I love your pictures but even more so love reading the comments you make! Your enthusiam is contagious Not enough for me to get pigs, goats or chickens though LOL

Thanks, Nicky! Two ways one can find "TRUE" inner peace....1. - spend years searching for it high in the Himalayan Mountains with no gaurantees....or....2. - have pigs, goats and chickens.

I really don't mean to comment a certain way. I see what all you guys have and are doing and I am just excited! I am so far behind everybody it isn't even funny! You guys are all talking about awesome chutes and corrals and I'm just now planning a headgate out of wood....lol....probably will start on that this weekend.

I was struggling staying awake out of fear of not hearing my littlest buddy wanting a new diaper and bottle....and miss getting my oldest boy on the bus because I was sawing some serious logs....both would make me feel bad. I ranch, cook, Mr. Mom it up during the day, then Mr. Mom, clean, remodel the house, research stuff on the net, by night. Every once in awhile I get a little sleepy....lol...but normally I don't get tired until the sun comes up.

 

[Hayguy]

so... why is the dodge parked in the feild, kind of an expensive back scratcher :wink: :lol:

 

[katrina]

so... why is the dodge parked in the feild, kind of an expensive back scratcher :wink: :lol:

Hello!! Everyone knows that's the play pen for the kids... I used to have a wind up mobile tied to my windshield mirror..

 

[R A]

so... why is the dodge parked in the feild, kind of an expensive back scratcher :wink: :lol:

back scrathcer - I guess the boys and I "cough, cough" ran it out of fuel "cough". Then we took our sweet time I guess you could say to get it going again. ...which took two trips to town and was a booger. I've ran it out of fuel 5 or 6 times now....3 times within a few feet of the pumps. Still embarassing getting all the air out of the lines infront of a bunch of people, some waiting behind you in line, breaking out into sweats like you never have before.....


We got our fencing done without the truck so we could turn the cows out onto our hay ground just took longer...a lot longer...pic below. Need to make a ranching stroller...ha , although I would endorse these Jeep strollers like this one. The thing will go anywhere!