Branding Day

[Tap]

Don't you just love rain, but wish it would hold off till the last calf is branded? Here I am looking out the window looking south where we are going to brand our last two bunches today. It is dry as could be here, but there is a vigorous looking thunderstorm, that is about big enough to fit in your hat, and it looks to be parked right over our branding corral.

We are expecting in the high 30's for the lunch count, and I hope at least some of them help ride and brand. :wink: Well, better get my horse caught just in case the storm passed us by.

 

[Rowdy Ranch]

Tap-hope you have a great day and do get some work out of those lunchers :lol:

 

[George]

I'm sure thre are a few out there that would plan a branding once a week if it would insure rain!!!

 

[Ranchy]

Wish we could be there, to help ya, Tap! I love gettin rained on while working, makes it so much cooler. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hope ya'll get lots of good pics, to come back and share with us! *hint, hint*

:cboy:

 

[Anonymous]

Tap-Its going to rain all the rest of the week... I had brandings or things planned for everyday the rest of the week, so we took bulls out a couple days early this morning....Last year when I did that I never even got out of the pasture and it was raining and rained all week

I had no problems today- bulls loaded good in my trailer- and trailed good-- but the partner had a little extra cussing under his breath-- he loaded up bulls in the front of his trailer- then went to grab a couple horses...When he was turning into the horse pasture he noticed bulls walking out the escape hatch :roll: :lol: Apparently some of the kids playing house in the trailer had left it open, and noone noticed it- so we got to corral and load them twice.....

Just good it happened when it did and not when we were cruising down front street :lol: :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Sky is all clouded up now- smells like rain altho none has hit the ground here yet......

Weather boys are now saying that this front moving in could be quite a wet one-- predicting some areas of the plains could easily pick up 1-2" of rain between now and the weekend...

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Sky is all clouded up now- smells like rain altho none has hit the ground here yet......

Weather boys are now saying that this front moving in could be quite a wet one-- predicting some areas of the plains could easily pick up 1-2" of rain between now and the weekend...

Don't keep it all to your self OT. Remember it is better to give then recieve. Who said that? Musn't been talking about rain. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Sky is all clouded up now- smells like rain altho none has hit the ground here yet......

Weather boys are now saying that this front moving in could be quite a wet one-- predicting some areas of the plains could easily pick up 1-2" of rain between now and the weekend...

Don't keep it all to your self OT. Remember it is better to give then recieve. Who said that? Musn't been talking about rain. :wink:

Even the Canuck weather boys are predicting flat out rain for Rockglen tomorrow......

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Sky is all clouded up now- smells like rain altho none has hit the ground here yet......

Weather boys are now saying that this front moving in could be quite a wet one-- predicting some areas of the plains could easily pick up 1-2" of rain between now and the weekend...

Don't keep it all to your self OT. Remember it is better to give then recieve. Who said that? Musn't been talking about rain. :wink:

Even the Canuck weather boys are predicting flat out rain for Rockglen tomorrow......

Yea Rockglen got 3-6 inches a week or so age and we got WIND. It is not that far away but we just can't catch a soaker. turned some yearlings and a few PB cows in on the hayland to night as they might as well eat it while it's green as it's to short to cut.

 

[Anonymous]

Big Muddy you got to do something different to change your luck :wink:

We really look good here- could actually be cutting some hayfields, but it would be kind of dumb to this early in June as June usually brings us rain- better to wait and get that past us than have a bunch of rained on hay....

I shouldn't be telling this story- but everybody is getting a laugh on me anyway since the kid has told everyone how I missed this brand :roll: ... We were looking at one of the old cows that had just calved last week....I knew she was old as she was the last remaining cow of a bunch I bought as shorttermers several years ago (paid $385 each for them, so you know it was awhile ago)...But she has kept bringing in a good calf and has avoided getting culled.... Well being out on good grass (and FH's Vigortone) she was looking so slick and shiny that I noticed a number brand on her I'd never seen before- an 8 :shock: Kid wouldn't buy my story of her being an 8 year old :wink:

Old girl could have voted yesterday :lol:

 

[Faster horses]

18 years old!!!! Bet sge could tell some stories!!!

Actually you are right about the Vigortone helping those old girls.
A fellow here had some short termers he was going to sell. Got on
the mineral program and those cows started looking better and better.
He kept them 3 MORE YEARS and sold them to someone else.
They looked better when he sold them than they did 4 years prior.
And this is his story...not mine!!!

Tell me more about the weather, OT. Are we supposed to get some?
I see where we are at 30% most every day. We could sure use some
more rain.

I talked with Roger Monday, and he said they are dry at Nashua.
First I had heard of that, I thought you were all in good shape.

 

[Jinglebob]

18 years old!!!! Bet sge could tell some stories!!!

Actually you are right about the Vigortone helping those old girls.
A fellow here had some short termers he was going to sell. Got on
the mineral program and those cows started looking better and better.
He kept them 3 MORE YEARS and sold them to someone else.
They looked better when he sold them than they did 4 years prior.
And this is his story...not mine!!!

Tell me more about the weather, OT. Are we supposed to get some?
I see where we are at 30% most every day. We could sure use some
more rain.

I talked with Roger Monday, and he said they are dry at Nashua.
First I had heard of that, I thought you were all in good shape.

Hey fh, who sells that stuff in my country. I might could get some of these old longhorns to last for 25 years, if I start useing it! :shock:

Seriously, I've read enough of these people on here who are impressed with it that I'd like to give it a try, if there is anyone close enough that I can get some and it is cheap enough that I can afford it.

There was an old feller up on the south side of the Slim Buttes country who raised some longhorn bulls. A neighbor and I stopped in one time to look at a bull calf he had. He was telling us that he ought to sell this calfs mother as she was 24 or 25 and had never been open, but as he said, "She might just come up open one of these years so maybe I better sell her." And he was dead serious!

 

[Anonymous]

FH- Historically, for up here anyway, this is about the wettest week of the year....Weather guys say that there will be showers and thunderstorms all week across the northern plains- and some might turn into daylong rains as this system has lots of moisture in it...

We got a little shower during the night that had the ground wet this morning- pretty well dryed out now... Its raining lightly at the north place now and looks like Big Muddy could be getting a shower...East wind- heavy cloud cover and looks like it could start in again here anytime...

Jinglebob--After the kid had to tell my Vet buddy, and he got a good guffaw out of me missing the age brand- he told me that last year he preg tested someones herd of longhorns and that they had a couple that were 28 years old- but he said they looked it and he convinced them to sell them..........

 

[kolanuraven]

This past fall we buired here the world oldest regestered Angus cow!!! She was 29.....I even had the AAA look up her reg# and kinda compare with others on record....and yepper as best as they could tell she WAS the oldest!!!

She had become just an old pet cow and was getting pretty decrepid...so we did the nice thing and had her put down and buried right proper like!!

 

[Faster horses]

Perhaps we could add that catagory to the photo contest:

"Pictures of the oldest cow".

On second thought, that's probably not a good idea. :wink: :!:

 

[kolanuraven]

This one ended up looking like that painting....." the last of 5,000" or whatever it's called. In fact, we even hid her out in the barn stall when people came in to look @ the other cattle!!!!!


But, she was mom's pet and that was just the way it was....PERIOD!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

18 years old!!!! Bet sge could tell some stories!!!

Actually you are right about the Vigortone helping those old girls.
A fellow here had some short termers he was going to sell. Got on
the mineral program and those cows started looking better and better.
He kept them 3 MORE YEARS and sold them to someone else.
They looked better when he sold them than they did 4 years prior.
And this is his story...not mine!!!

Tell me more about the weather, OT. Are we supposed to get some?
I see where we are at 30% most every day. We could sure use some
more rain.

I talked with Roger Monday, and he said they are dry at Nashua.
First I had heard of that, I thought you were all in good shape.

Hey fh, who sells that stuff in my country. I might could get some of these old longhorns to last for 25 years, if I start useing it! :shock:

Seriously, I've read enough of these people on here who are impressed with it that I'd like to give it a try, if there is anyone close enough that I can get some and it is cheap enough that I can afford it.

There was an old feller up on the south side of the Slim Buttes country who raised some longhorn bulls. A neighbor and I stopped in one time to look at a bull calf he had. He was telling us that he ought to sell this calfs mother as she was 24 or 25 and had never been open, but as he said, "She might just come up open one of these years so maybe I better sell her." And he was dead serious!

JB if it works for you and does what you expect of it the price of Vigortone should be your last concern. If it's not doing what you want it is to expensive at half the price