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A Great Day to Be Alive!

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Grassfarmer

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"A great day to be alive" as the song says. Spring is coming, sun is shining so I took a leisurely stroll. Time to think grass again :D
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Corrals are brown but the countryside is still largely white.
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Checking out the spring feed stockpile. The cage is from our local forage group who are doing a yield/quality test again this winter.
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Still needs a couple of weeks to dry off and clear the snow. This is my heaviest yielding field this winter - normally this would be an average yield.
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Underneath its as green as fresh growth in places. Last grazed in July this is summer/fall grass that has been freeze dried over winter.
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An F1 Luing /Red Angus bred heifer of a type I like.
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My oldest purebred now - a 1996 model so will be 14 this spring. Me moved her here at 11 from hard-grass country and she has had a tough time adapting.
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Hopefully more adapted - her home raised daughter - a bred heifer.
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Totally unrelated - a young bull that I like. Only 9 months old, weaned in December onto silage +2lbs of pellets as the owner wants to use him this summer. Not a big 'un but a very correct and masculine bull in my opinion.
 
Fantastic banked grass GF, I'm a little jealous. No rain to speak of here in June, July and Aug kept us from putting up enough. Not sure I could duplicate that on a good year. :? Cattle look awesome as well.
 
GF I envy you your weather and congratulate you on your grass. Things look good in your country. Looks like your beeves came through in fine fashion.
Unfortunately our place looks exactly like WyomingRancher's today. We are under heavy snowfall warning for the second straight day. Which would explain why the cows are calving wide open. :roll:
 
Time to "think" grass here also except all my thinking about nonexistent rain, snow, sleet ,hail, H20 of any kind would be welcome, so far only leaves me thinking about and working on another drought plan. I am envious also.
 
Oh, we are drought planning too Dylan as it is record dry here. My banked grass this year came at the expense of several hundred extra acres rented last year. We are already committed to the increased acres again this year and will go to grass with reduced cow numbers but more yearlings. Easier to offload yearlings if we have to. Ideally our slow thaw will continue and we then get replenished with a good dump of rain or snow even if it comes at calving time.
 
Nice days are made nicer when you have good help along.

We are dry here. The basement for our new house went in Monday and there is no frost. The dirt was just like powder down to 6 feet. apparently it takes moisture to make frost.
 
I'll see if I can draw ol' Grassfarmer back out of hibernation. :wink: As his post says, "it is a great day to be alive." The wind is blowing hard in this country today, but at least the temperature is 46 degrees. It's a chinook that is cutting whatever snow is left.

Grassfarmer, those are some nice photos. Your grass cover is to be envied. Anywhere there is grass carryover, the new green grass starts much quicker and gets much thicker in the spring. There is also much less chance of a cow getting grass tetany if she gets old grass along with every mouthful of new grass.

I really like your cows. They look like good doers of the easy keeping kind. The bull calf is a nice critter, but he just doesn't look like a bull prospect to me. He is also an easy keeper but just doesn't have the eye appeal that your cows do. He would look better to me if he didn't have quite such long hair and the white belly. I don't mind the white belly on your young cow, but it is something I try to stay away from if possible. One cow won't propogate white bellies much, but one bull breeding 25 cows per year could put a lot of white bellies in the herd.

These thoughts were rolling around in my head when you first posted the pictures, but I had decided not to say anything. Now I'll try to get an argument going just to get you back on the board. :wink: :-)
 

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