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Heifers and random pictures

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Faster horses

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Wyoming Rancher asked for pictures of our heifers.
Can anyone tell me how to downsize the pictures from photobucket?
These are too darn big.

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They really like their mineral. We put it out in troughs like this.
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This cow is 16 years old. She has a pretty nice calf, but not
as good as usual, I don't think. Oh well.
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Don't know if you can see it, but this calf has a big swelling
on the right side of it's face. (Look at the left side as you view the
picture.)
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In this pasture, we have the resevoir at one end and this water tank
at the other.
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Thanks to our county crew and new equipment, Fallon County has some
awesome country roads.
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This area is a weed patch in an improved pasture. Don't know why it's there and don't know what to do about it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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those heifers look like the right kind. how will they be bred? (yeah, yeah, i know...by a bull :wink: )

i wish we had your gravel roads. ours are so rough, you can't hardly walk on them. :? and that's right after they have been graded. :???:
 
FH, thank you for the photos. Nice to see some green. good looking bunch of heifers. I like the looks of your country side.

The old cow doesn't owe you anything, a real trooper, too bad they don't all stick around that long.

Do they send the graders out in pairs to keep each other company?

:-)

Our guys up here aren't that lucky. :-)
 
Don't know why they send the graders in pairs.
Fallon County is known for their good equipment.
The other MT counties stand in line to get what Fallon
County trades in, or so I've been told. The minute
you cross into Carter County it's a whole other thing.
Two-track ruts, mostly. Yes, we are fortunate to have
such good roads.

Justin, we are AI'ing these heifers to Mytty In Focus.
We bought 3 sons and used them last year. Out of 60
heifers they only had to pull one. (We sold the heifers,
but the guys that bought them reported back and only
one needed pulled.)

Dylan, that cow is the only crossbred cow we owned.
She is part Brown Swiss, born the first year we moved here,
1993!! I hate to sell her, so when we sold all the cows last
fall, we kept her and a couple others. Now she's worth
a lot of money because of the market. I heard on the
radio at Dickinson, ND short term pairs brought $1000 or
better. Maybe $1200. :shock:

We wintered these heifers on mineral and grass hay and not the best hay
at that. (The best mineral tho :wink: ) They got some barley sprout pellets at 2# day for 30 days just to gentle them down.

Yes, nice to see some green. We need rain again now tho.
Thanks for your comments.
But no one told me how to make the pictures smaller. :?
 
Why not catch up that calf and lance the swelling and drain it before it up and dies on you.
 
FH sorry but I have the same problems with my pics on FB. They are too large here but just right on CT. :roll:

I think they are just right as you can see them better.. :wink:

I hope that MR FH is feeling better and well on his way to a complete recovery. :)
 
Lovely Ladies... :D ..

I believe the problem is... you need to change your setting on Photobucket..it gives you a choice of how big you want the pictures...and you have em set on BIG!!... :)

I also feed mineral out of a bunk like that...do ya plug the holes up??
 
Thanks McGee for the tip. I'll check that out.
As for the drain holes in the troughs, Mr. FH put a bolt
with a washer in each end so they don't leak.
They are so handy, you can just hook onto them and
pull them to any pasture and they are large enough
for quite a few head of cattle to use. We hardly have
any problems with the bulls tipping them over. Once in
awhile they might, but very seldom.
 
FANCY heifers FH :D , thanks for the pics. Your grass looks fantastic too! It's a good 2+ weeks behind here, so your pics have given me hope that someday it will grow :? .
 
For your weed patch FH you might try unrolling some clean grass hay on those spots- the more mature the better. Throw out some grass seed at the same time. Lots of times those areas are low in fertility namely organic matter. Cattle will eat some of the hay and lay on some and do what cows do in bedding areas. Any unused hay will protect the ground and maintain moisture. Cleaned up some bad spots of Canadian thistle that way.
 
Faster horses said:
Thanks katrina and RA.

Jingo2, that calf isn't ours. And Mr. FH has a fracture in his
back, that's why we sold our cows. He can't throw
that calf down to doctor her.

The owner ASSURED me that he would doctor that calf.
Does that answer your question?
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Well, yes it does. :shock:

No need to get so snippy as you represented this critters as yours....your first sentnece w/ the pic calls them " our heifers"...so I was just wondering why you didn't take care of 'your' heifers was all.

Apparently you have no facilites in your sections to catch up cattle, like a temp corral or the like.

It sounds as if was a good move for the cattle that they were sold.
 

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