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Mud, Muck, Slop & Snow?

leanin' H

Well-known member
I just came in from chore'n and took some pictures tonight. We have went from a foot and a half of snow to mud in 5 days! :???: And as i type this the ground is covered with snow and it's still coming down! :???: Here's the swimming pool called our horse corral.
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Reba treading h2o while waiting on me to quit being a photo-taker and become a hay-waiter.
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Let's eat!!!!!
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I am the proud herder of three turkeys. :wink: They accompany me on my treks through the yard and give advice on what i am doing wrong. If ya can have a meaningful conversation with 3 turkeys does it mean you've lost it or are just tired of winter? :shock:
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We always buy some light weight calves in late fall and try to feed them as much expensive hay and grain as they will eat until prices fall as far down as possible. Then we sell them and buy some more! :wink:
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Side veiw of bovines in charge of draining my farm account! Actually they turn into fat beef and we do allright selling them to folks in the bigger town. :wink:
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I ain't coming out there in the muck. I'll stay here in the shed where it's dry and you can bring the hay to me!
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We got our first calf this week. Now some of ya'll have lots more cattle than me but i am one fifth of the way done calving! :p The new bull calf in my recently remodeled calving suite.
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His mama is a 2nd calf heifer and sure raised a nice heifer last year. He's 86 pounds and doing well.
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Banded and tagged him. Ya know ya don't have enough cows when yer in single digits. We buy a couple heifers every year and keep a couple if we like em' out'a ours. By 2089 we will have quite a nice bunch built up! :D And we'll still have 1/2 as many as some of you! :( On a side note, i got out my tagging box and noticed i currently have enough tags to last til 2089! My wife says i'm grounded from even looking at tags at the feedstore!
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The rest of our little bunch at the manger. They got to the manger on a used ww2 landing craft and shot me dirty looks for making them graze under these conditions!
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Rear veiw of the swamp. Atleast they have a couple high spots that are dry and a room at the calving motel when they require it.
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I am feeding triticale to the calvy sisters and alfalfa/grass to the feeders and cows with calves. Throw in some mineral and protein and they are doing well.
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This is a dryland feild we plant into barley. We never know wether to plant in the fall or spring. If i could get enough fall moisture to germanate the seed it would be a no-brainer, but that is pretty ify around here. When ya see it like this though, i wish it was already planted.
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A January sky that can't make up it's mind. Fickle, indecisive, moody, beautiful, angry........ sounds like some of your lady's! :D :shock: :???: :wink:
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My faithful farm truck. 83 chev with no odometer, a mis-matched door, plexiglass back window and bent bumper. She's a cherry!
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We live next to an old cabin in a sagebrush and shadscale 40 acre pasture. A neighbor south of us owns it and puts reg. Herefords in for a while each spring. In the pasture, not the cabin! If walls could talk? The folks who came before us were a lot tougher i'll bet! :D
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I built a pine pole entry way into our place off the private drive we share with my brother. We decorated it with mule deer and elk shed horns. Thought ya might like wallerin' thru the mud with me tonight! :D I am surely not complaining though, as the moisture turns dirt into grass! :wink:
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Big Muddy rancher

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Those 3 turkeys explain a lot. :nod: :nod: :nod:

Now we know why you get along with Gcreek so well.

You talk turkey. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm afraid it will be awhile before we have much trouble with mud the way it feels tonight. :cry:
 

WyomingRancher

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That's some great looking mud! I'm hoping for lots of mud this spring too :D . It has been snowing here, with more on the way tonight.

I like your herd of heavy cows... just the right amount to calve out in my opinion :wink: .
 

gcreekrch

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Those 3 turkeys explain a lot. :nod: :nod: :nod:

Now we know why you get along with Gcreek so well.

You talk turkey. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm afraid it will be awhile before we have much trouble with mud the way it feels tonight. :cry:

He probably welds like one too!
 

gcreekrch

Well-known member
You better come up here for calving and find out what mud is. :(
Pretty high class outfit that can fit every critter they own under a roof. The only thing wrong with your cattle is you haven't got a couple hundred more just like them. :D


But TURKEYS? :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :p :p
 

Blkbuckaroo

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Good post H, i see you ranch in the same tradition i do,mud and small numbers.Here's to a good hay crop.When you're drylanding it you need all the hope,and luck you can get.thanks for sharing.
 

Big Swede

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If you can have a meaningful conversation with "turkeys" you need to get on the next plane to Washington DC and get busy. There's plenty there to visit with. :wink:
 
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